NativeScript Shadowed Label

A NativeScript plugin that extends the <Label> UI widget by adding the text-shadow CSS property.

shadow examples	sample from the playground

This version is for NS 6. You will find the NS 7 version here.

Installation

tns plugin add nativescript-shadowed-label

Usage

After installing the plugin, you can add the shadow to the shadowed label with the CSS syntax:

text-shadow: <offset-x> <offset-y> <blur-radius> <color>

E.g.

.shadow1 {
    text-shadow: 1 1 3 blue;
}

.shadow2 {
    text-shadow: 10px 10px 10px rgba(100, 130, 200, 0.8);
}

You can also add the text shadow as a property (e.g. <ShadowedLabel textShadow="1 1 1 #55a">)

iOS note: The blur radius appears scatters the shadow more on iOS and on Android.

NativeScript Plain

IMPORTANT: Make sure you include xmlns:shadowedLabel="nativescript-shadowed-label" on the Page element

XML

<Page xmlns="http://schemas.nativescript.org/tns.xsd" xmlns:shadowedLabel="nativescript-shadowed-label">
  <StackLayout class="p-20">
    <shadowedLabel:ShadowedLabel
      class="h1 text-center"
      text="title with CSS shadow"
    />
    <shadowedLabel:ShadowedLabel
      text="color shadow"
      textShadow="2 10 4 rgb(255, 100, 100)"
      fontStyle="italic"
      fontSize="40"
      class="m-b-20 text-center"
    />
    <shadowedLabel:ShadowedLabel
      class="m-t-20 c-black"
      style="text-shadow: 1 1 1 #55a"
      textWrap="true"
      text="Shadow in 'style'!"
    />
  </GridLayout>
</Page>

CSS

.h1 {
    text-shadow: 2 2 2 #aaa;
    font-weight: bold;
}

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NativeScript Angular

import { registerElement } from 'nativescript-angular/element-registry';
import { ShadowedLabel } from 'nativescript-shadowed-label;
registerElement('ShadowedLabel', () => ShadowedLabel);

<ShadowedLabel class="h1 text-center" text="title with CSS shadow" />
<ShadowedLabel
    text="color shadow"
    textShadow="2 10 4 rgb(255, 100, 100)"
    fontStyle="italic"
    fontSize="40"
    class="m-b-20 text-center"
/>
<ShadowedLabel
    class="m-t-20 c-black"
    style="text-shadow: 1 1 1 #55a"
    textWrap="true"
    text="Shadow in 'style'!"
/>

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NativeScript Vue

import Vue from 'nativescript-vue';
Vue.registerElement('ShadowedLabel', () => require('nativescript-shadowed-label').ShadowedLabel);

<shadowed-label
    text="color shadow"
    textShadow="2 10 4 rgb(255, 100, 100)"
    fontStyle="italic"
    fontSize="40"
    class="m-b-20 text-center"
/>

License

Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004