Button

The primary action component: variants, sizes, a loading state and icon slots.

Icons in startContent and endContent inherit a colour that reads against the button's background, so they follow the theme without a hardcoded hex.

For several buttons drawn as one control, use ButtonGroup. For a button that stays down after it is pressed, use ToggleButton.

Installation

Button ships with the library — no separate install.

import { Button, SearchIcon, ChevronRightIcon, GoogleIcon, AppleIcon } from 'panelui-native';

Or copy the source into your project, to own and edit it:

npx panelui-cli@latest add button

Usage

<Button onPress={save}>Save changes</Button>

<Button variant="outline" startContent={<SearchIcon size={16} />}>
  Search
</Button>

<Button variant="social" fullWidth startContent={<GoogleIcon size={18} />}>
  Continue with Google
</Button>

<Button loading={saving} fullWidth>
  {saving ? 'Saving…' : 'Save'}
</Button>

Examples

With icons

Icons in startContent and endContent inherit a colour that reads against the button’s background, so they follow the theme without a hardcoded hex.

<Button startContent={<SearchIcon size={16} />}>Search</Button>

<Button variant="outline" endContent={<ChevronRightIcon size={16} />}>
  Continue
</Button>

{/* Icon-only buttons get size="icon" and an accessibility label. */}
<Button size="icon" variant="ghost" accessibilityLabel="Search">
  <SearchIcon size={18} />
</Button>

Loading

loading swaps the start content for a variant-matched spinner and blocks presses, so you do not need a separate disabled.

const [saving, setSaving] = useState(false);

async function save() {
  setSaving(true);
  try {
    await api.save(draft);
  } finally {
    setSaving(false);
  }
}

<Button loading={saving} fullWidth onPress={save}>
  {saving ? 'Saving…' : 'Save changes'}
</Button>

A sign-in stack

The social variant is a neutral surface sized for a full-width column of providers.

<View className="gap-2">
  <Button variant="social" fullWidth startContent={<GoogleIcon size={18} />}>
    Continue with Google
  </Button>
  <Button variant="social" fullWidth startContent={<AppleIcon size={18} />}>
    Continue with Apple
  </Button>
</View>

Destructive confirmation

<View className="flex-row gap-2">
  <Button variant="ghost" onPress={cancel}>Cancel</Button>
  <Button variant="destructive" onPress={deleteAccount}>
    Delete account
  </Button>
</View>

Variants

variant

• primary (default)
• secondary
• outline
• ghost
• destructive
• social

<Button>Primary</Button>
<Button variant="secondary">Secondary</Button>
<Button variant="outline">Outline</Button>
<Button variant="ghost">Ghost</Button>
<Button variant="destructive">Delete</Button>
<Button variant="social" startContent={<GoogleIcon size={18} />}>
  Continue with Google
</Button>

size

• sm
• md (default)
• lg
• xl
• icon

<Button size="sm">Small</Button>
<Button size="md">Medium</Button>
<Button size="lg">Large</Button>
<Button size="xl">Extra large</Button>
<Button size="icon" accessibilityLabel="Search">
  <SearchIcon size={18} />
</Button>

fullWidth

• true

<Button fullWidth>Spans its container</Button>

API Reference

Button

Every part also accepts the underlying React Native props (ViewProps or TextProps) and a className for Tailwind utilities.

Notes

loading swaps the start content for a variant-matched spinner and blocks presses. The social variant is a neutral surface sized for a full-width sign-in stack; pair it with GoogleIcon, FacebookIcon or AppleIcon.

Large text

Portable labelled buttons keep their 36/44/48/56dp default size as a minimum, not a ceiling. xl is the step above lg, for the one control a screen is built around — a compose button in a navigation panel, a primary action alone at the bottom of a sheet. With Dynamic Type or Android font scaling, the label uses its intrinsic line box, wraps when its container is constrained, and grows the button with its vertical padding. Start/end icons keep their requested size. size="icon" remains a fixed square because it has no visible text; give it an accessibilityLabel.

Native rendering

Pass native to render the platform's own button instead — SwiftUI on iOS, Jetpack Compose on Android. It needs the optional @expo/ui package and is a silent no-op without it.

Theme tokens do not apply in native mode: the platform draws the control with its own colours and metrics, so className and most styling props are ignored. variant maps onto the nearest platform style; size, fullWidth, loading, startContent and endContent are dropped.

systemImage puts a glyph beside the label of a native button. It names one from the platform's own symbol set rather than taking an element, because an element has to be hosted inside the native tree and a hosted view inside a labelled button has no width anything can resolve. iOS only — Android has no equivalent set, so a button there is its label alone.

See Native rendering for the full prop-by-prop breakdown.

Liquid Glass

glass draws a native button in the material iOS 26 uses for its own floating controls. It needs native — on its own it does nothing — and on an older iOS, on Android, or without @expo/ui the button keeps its ordinary platform style rather than failing.

primary and destructive take the prominent variant, which keeps the accent tint a filled button is supposed to have; every other variant takes the plain one. A native icon button is drawn round rather than in the platform's default capsule — a lone glyph in a capsule reads as a text button somebody forgot to label. A labelled native button is sized through the platform's control scale, which size maps onto — that scales the room the style leaves around the label, and the label with it. sm, md, lg and xl reach the platform's small, regular, large and extra-large controls; lg is as big as a platform button goes without xl. An icon button is sized by padding on the glyph instead: the platform draws a button's background around its label, so padding the button pads outside the chrome and a frame only re-centres it.

<Button native glass size="icon" variant="ghost">
  <MenuIcon size={20} />
</Button>

<Button native>New chat</Button>                    {/* fine */}
<Button native size="icon"><PlusIcon /></Button>    {/* fine */}
<Button native><Text>New chat</Text></Button>       {/* crashes */}

The portable Button merges any additional accessibilityState fields you supply, then keeps its button role plus disabled and loading busy state authoritative. Other Pressable props—including an explicit pressScale override—continue to pass through normally.

Public exports

Values: Button

Types: ButtonProps, ButtonVariant, ButtonSize