react-native-edge-fade

Smooth, native-quality edge fades for React Native. One component. Any view. iOS, Android, Web.

import { EdgeFadeView } from 'react-native-edge-fade';

<EdgeFadeView bottom={80} style={{ flex: 1 }}>
  <ScrollView>{/* your content */}</ScrollView>
</EdgeFadeView>

Why?

Building edge fades from scratch means juggling MaskedView, LinearGradient, platform-specific shaders, and clipping hacks — just to avoid visible banding. This library collapses all of that into a single declarative component with zero extra dependencies.

Features

• Three render modes — mask (alpha dissolve), overlay (color gradient), blur (progressive Gaussian)
• Four edges, independently tuned — different size, curve, and color per side
• True progressive blur — Apple Music-style, stack of increasing-radius Gaussians
• Reanimated support — UI-thread animated fades, no React re-renders
• RTL-aware — start / end props respect layout direction
• Fabric only — New Architecture native views, no Paper

Render modes

// Mask — fades content to transparent (reveals what's behind)
<EdgeFadeView bottom={80}>
  <ScrollView>{/* content over an image, gradient, video... */}</ScrollView>
</EdgeFadeView>

// Overlay — paints a color gradient over content
<EdgeFadeView mode="overlay" left={120} right={120} color="#000">
  <ScrollView horizontal>{/* horizontal strip */}</ScrollView>
</EdgeFadeView>

// Blur — progressive blur toward the edge (iOS 13+ / Android 12+)
<EdgeFadeView mode="blur" top={120} blurRadius={24}>
  <ScrollView>{/* nav bar frosting, Apple Music scroll edge */}</ScrollView>
</EdgeFadeView>

Installation

yarn add react-native-edge-fade
cd ios && pod install

Usage

// Per-edge config: boolean, number, or full object
<EdgeFadeView bottom />                            // enable, 80dp
<EdgeFadeView bottom={120} />                      // custom size
<EdgeFadeView bottom={{ size: 120, curve: 'sharp', color: '#111' }} />

// Vertical list fading at both ends
<EdgeFadeView top={40} bottom={80} style={{ flex: 1 }}>
  <ScrollView>{items.map(i => <Row key={i.id} {...i} />)}</ScrollView>
</EdgeFadeView>

// Rounded card
<EdgeFadeView bottom={60} radius={16} style={{ height: 200 }}>
  <Image source={cover} style={StyleSheet.absoluteFill} />
</EdgeFadeView>

// RTL-aware
<EdgeFadeView start={80}>{/* fades leading edge, regardless of direction */}</EdgeFadeView>

Animated (Reanimated)

import { AnimatedEdgeFadeView } from 'react-native-edge-fade';
import { useSharedValue } from 'react-native-reanimated';

const scrollY = useSharedValue(0);

<AnimatedEdgeFadeView top={scrollY} bottom={80}>
  <Animated.ScrollView onScroll={...}>{/* content */}</Animated.ScrollView>
</AnimatedEdgeFadeView>

Reanimated is optional — without it, use the static EdgeFadeView.

API

Edge props

top bottom left right start end — each accepts boolean | number | EdgeConfig

Global props

Prop	Type	Default	Description
mode	'mask' | 'overlay' | 'blur'	auto	Inferred from color
size	number	80	Default fade depth (dp)
curve	EdgeFadeCurve	'smooth'	Curve shape
color	ColorValue	—	Overlay / frost veil color
radius	number	—	Corner radius
blurRadius	number	28	Max blur depth (dp). mode="blur"
frostProgression	number	1	Blur envelope span (0.05–1)
frostSaturation	number	0.9	Saturation grade. Android only
frostLift	number	1.03	Brightness grade. Android only

Curves

curve="smooth"      // cubic ease-out (default)
curve="smoother"    // S-curve
curve="sharp"       // quintic — aggressive
curve="gentle"      // quadratic — soft
curve="soft"        // sinusoidal — gradual
curve="linear"      // constant rate

// CSS cubic-bezier
{ type: 'cubicBezier', x1: 0.42, y1: 0, x2: 0.58, y2: 1 }

// Custom alpha stops
{ type: 'stops', values: [1, 0.9, 0.6, 0.2, 0] }

License

MIT © Giulio Amato