[v6] componentDidAppear not triggered when changing bottomtabs using mergeOptions

[didrikkvanvik]

Issue Description

componentDidAppear is not triggered when changing the current bottomTab using mergeOptions. Everything works fine when pressing a bottomTab. I've used the recommended way of navigating between tabs, as stated in the documentation. I believe this is a result of having the
tabsAttachMode in bottomTabs options set to onSwitchToTab

Steps to Reproduce / Code Snippets / Screenshots

The following code is how i navigate to another tab:

Navigation.mergeOptions(componentId, { bottomTabs: { currentTabIndex: tabIndex } })

The tabIndex is the index of the tab we're switching to.

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Environment

• React Native Navigation version: v6.0.1
• React Native version: v0.61.4
• Platform(s) (iOS, Android, or both?): iOS
• Device info (Simulator/Device? OS version? Debug/Release?): Simulator (Debug)

[guyca]

Hey @didrikkvanvik Have you tried updating to latest version? Also on which iOS version have you tested?
Are you sure this happens on both platforms?

[didrikkvanvik]

I've only tested on iOS so far with version 13.4.1. We're experiences another crucial bug with react-native-navigation that prohibits us from updating to the latest version. After patching the bug, we tried to update to the latest RNN version, but the bug still occurs even with the patch. So I haven't tried with the latest RNN version. Can't seem to find anything in the changelog that would fix this issue though since v6.0.1 (correct me if i'm wrong).

[guyca]

@didrikkvanvik Can you confirm the appear event works as expected with afterInitialTab?

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