How to change background color of rootView in React Native

Introduction

In order to make App’s starting screen look and feel better, you can either add a splash screen or change the background color of the rootView. In this short article, I’ll show You how to the latter.

iOS

In Your react-native project locate ios/YourAppName/AppDelegate.m file. There, just below rootView initialization, add desired background color:

As You can see, instead of well-know RGB or HEX color values, we have UIColor values. To get those, we can use online tool at http://uicolor.xyz/.

Android

From Your project root, go to android/app/src/main/res/values. There, create a file colors.xml, with a content:

Next, head to android/app/src/main/res/values/styles.xml

That’s it!

I hope You enjoyed this tutorial and I saved someone time searching for this solution.