Error from useBottomTabBarHeight() limits its usage. about react-navigation

[github-actions]

The versions mentioned in the issue for the following packages differ from the latest versions on npm:

• @react-navigation/native (found: 6.1.6, latest: 6.1.14)
• @react-navigation/bottom-tabs (found: 6.5.8, latest: 6.5.16)
• @react-navigation/stack (found: 6.3.17, latest: 6.3.25)

Can you verify that the issue still exists after upgrading to the latest versions of these packages?

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[satya164]

If you want to avoid the error then use BottomTabBarHeightContext directly instead of the hook.

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[rexfordessilfie]

Hey @therealkh, you can also try this if using the context directly avoids the error, but does not give you the correct heights:

• From inside a screen/component/hook that is rendered inside the BottomTabBarHeight synchronize the height with an external store that is accessible from where you want

Example (with React Context)
NB: I have left out the definition of the Context + Provider, but it should be simple to setup!

// Use this inside some screen that is rendered inside BottomTabBarHeightContext
function useSynchronizeTabBarHeight(){
    const height = useBottomTabBarHeight()
    const { setTabHeight } = useContext(GlobalTabBarHeightContext)

    // This will only run when the tab bar height changes.
    useEffect(()=>{
        setTabHeight(height)
    }, [height])
}

With the above, you can now use the height from the more global store anywhere you want (but still within the GlobalTabBarHeightContext:

function useCustomCalculation(){
    const { tabBarHeight } = useContext(GlobalTabBarHeightContext)

    // ... Do what you want with the height
}

Small note: The above works, but if you are hyper concerned with performance, or don't need your computations to be reactive to the tab bar height you can use another kind of global store that would not result in re-renders when the globally tracked height changes. Note, the re-renders happen regardless for the children of BottomTabBarHeightContext, I believe, so I don't think it should be much worse. Also throw in a console log in the useEffect to get a sense of how much the height changes in the life-cycle of your application to give you a sense of the re-renders that would be occurring.