A common feature request from developers familiar with the web is background-image. To handle this use case, you can use the component, which has the same props as , and add whatever children to it you would like to layer on top of it. You might not want to use in some cases, since the implementation is basic. Refer to ‘s source code for more insight, and create your own custom component when needed. Note that you must specify some width and height style attributes.

Example

import React from 'react';
import {ImageBackground, StyleSheet, Text, View} from 'react-native';

const image = {uri: 'https://legacy.reactjs.org/logo-og.png'};

const App = () => (
  <View style={styles.container}>
    <ImageBackground source={image} resizeMode="cover" style={styles.image}>
      <Text style={styles.text}>Inside</Text>
    </ImageBackground>
  </View>
);

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
  },
  image: {
    flex: 1,
    justifyContent: 'center',
  },
  text: {
    color: 'white',
    fontSize: 42,
    lineHeight: 84,
    fontWeight: 'bold',
    textAlign: 'center',
    backgroundColor: '#000000c0',
  },
});

export default App;

Reference

Props

Image props

Inherits Image Props.

style

Type
View Style

Last modified on September 30, 2025

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