React Navigation V5 Hide Bottom Tabs

I would like to be able to hide the tabs on a screen using React Native Navigation v5.

I’ve been reading the documentation but it doesn’t seem like they’ve updated this for v5 and it refers to the < v4 way of doing things.

here is my code:

import Home from './components/Home';
import SettingsScreen from './components/Settings';
import * as React from 'react';
import { NavigationContainer } from '@react-navigation/native';
import { createBottomTabNavigator } from '@react-navigation/bottom-tabs';
import { createStackNavigator } from '@react-navigation/stack';

const SettingsStack = createStackNavigator();
const ProfileStack  = createStackNavigator();

function SettingsStackScreen() {
    return (
        <SettingsStack.Navigator>
            <SettingsStack.Screen name="Settings" component={SettingsScreen} />
        </SettingsStack.Navigator>
    )
}

function ProfileStackScreen() {
    return (
        <ProfileStack.Navigator>
            <ProfileStack.Screen name="Home" component={Home} />
        </ProfileStack.Navigator>
    )
}

const Tab = createBottomTabNavigator();

export default function App() {
  return (
    <NavigationContainer>
      <Tab.Navigator>
        <Tab.Screen name="Home" component={ProfileStackScreen} />
        <Tab.Screen name="Settings" component={SettingsStackScreen} />
      </Tab.Navigator>
    </NavigationContainer>
  );
}

Things I have tried:

Accessing the options of the function and hiding that way.
Passing tabBarVisible as a prop to the Screen.

What I am asking for is, what is the correct way of hiding tabs on screens in React Navigation v5.

Answer

Let’s suppose that you want to hide tabs when you are entering Settings. Just add navigation in your constructor:

function SettingsStackScreen({ navigation }) {
    navigation.setOptions({ tabBarVisible: false })
    return (
        <SettingsStack.Navigator>
            <SettingsStack.Screen name="Settings" component={SettingsScreen} />
        </SettingsStack.Navigator>
    )
}

This code should work.

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