React native - remove space between drawerIcon and item text on Drawer.Screen

I'm trying to adjust space between icon and text in drawer screen.

Here's an image to explain better.

Here's my code

<Drawer.Navigator screenOptions={(navigation) => ({
        drawerItemStyle: {
           borderRadius: 0,
           width: '100%',
           marginLeft: 0
        }
      })}>
      <Drawer.Screen 
         name="HomeScreen" 
         component={HomeScreen} 
         options={{ 
            headerShown: true,  
            headerTransparent: true, 
            headerTitle: "", 
            title: 'Start Delivery',
            drawerIcon: (({focused}) => <Icon name="car" size={25} color={focused ? "#288df9" : "#777"} style={{padding:0, margin:0}} />)
         }} 
      />
</Drawer.Navigator>

Thanks

The default Drawer uses a DrawerItemList which is a list of DrawerItems. Looking at the source code, the view that wraps the label implements a marginLeft of 32. This is hardcoded and cannot be changed without using dirty tricks.

Let us test this using the following example.

function App() {
  return (
     <NavigationContainer>
      <Drawer.Navigator>
        <Drawer.Screen name="Home" component={Home} options={{drawerIcon: () => <View style={{height:20, width: 20, backgroundColor: "red"}} />}}  />
      </Drawer.Navigator>
    </NavigationContainer>
  );
}

The above uses a View as a dummy image with a red background. Here is the result.

Adding a marginRight of -32 to our icon removes the "gap" completely.

function App() {
  return (
     <NavigationContainer>
      <Drawer.Navigator>
        <Drawer.Screen name="Home" component={Home} options={{drawerIcon: () => <View style={{height:20, width: 20, backgroundColor: "red", marginRight: -32}} />}}  />
      </Drawer.Navigator>
    </NavigationContainer>
  );
}

Here is the result.

This is not ideal since we have to do this for each icon, thus we could create a custom component and reuse it.

const CustomIconComponent = ({focused, name}) => {
    return <View style={{marginRight: -32}}>
        <Icon name={name} size={25} color={focused ? "#288df9" : "#777"} />
    </View>
}

Then, use it for each screen.

options={{ 
        
    ...
            title: 'Start Delivery',
            drawerIcon: (({focused}) => <CustomIconComponent focused={focused} />)
         }} 

There is a second way. We could create a custom drawer. This would allow us to not use the DrawerItem component but a custom component with custom stylings.