feat(core): Added support for style direction property (ltr/rtl) #10691
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PR Checklist
What is the current behavior?
Right now, core has no support for enforcing a layout direction.
What is the new behavior?
Added css
direction
inherited property for a minimal RTL support.This property will use the native APIs of each platform which means that enforcing a layout direction will automatically provide the default native direction experience.
For example, iOS UINavigationBar will align back button to the right in the case of RTL.
The following cases will additionally be affected by layout direction:
slide
transition will slide to the right in the case of RTL directionflip
transition will flip to the left in the case of RTL direction (it used to and will flip to the right in the case of LTR)start
andend
values tohorizontalAlignment
property in order for views to be able to align based on layout directionLabel
default or initial text alignment shall respect the layout directionhasRtlSupport
helper function to determine whether an app supports RTL (it's always true for iOS)FlexboxLayout
layout direction support for flex alignment and directionFew things to consider:
start
andend
values yet. It's doable but will require extra workaround for iOS since it only providesleft
andright
for aligning to each side. For the time being, users can rely ontext-align: initial
the default of which isleft
for LTR andright
for RTLandroid:supportsRtl="true"
flag to Application tag inAndroidManifest.xml
in order to support itNativeScript app templates shall not support RTL by default since it adds extra burden to layout and processing and it's a feature meant for a small number of languages.
User is responsible to enable RTL in one's own app using
android:supportsRtl="true"
.This PR adds a set a features to have as many needs as possible based on #7094 #9465 requests.
Fixes/Implements/Closes #6051 #6156.