flipper VS ViewPropertyObjectAnimator

Definitely switch to VS Code! I personally don't use the built in VS Code debugger, but check out Flipper as another option. It's got a lot of great tools and plugins for debugging. The Layout Inspector will be what you are looking for if you want to inspect the styling specifically.

I use Flipper with its Layout Inspector plugin

Also no folder show on sources filesystem (in Hermes Debugger) as described here: https://github.com/facebook/flipper/issues/4530

Very useful and beautiful and simply , my suggestion is to use this Flipper

You may also want to look into custom Flipper plugins to instrument your app.

Some development tools for the web are similar (Chrome debugger, mostly) to those for React Native, but other aspects are very different (working with the metro bundler, using Flipper, AsyncStorage debugging, more). Some techniques developers will use are the same (breakpoints and console logging), but others are different (knowing when to restart the packager vs reinstall the app on device).

from the GitHub, and has existed under the name flipper since mid 2018

It's not possible to use a browser to debug a JSI app, use Flipper (for android Flipper also has SQLite Database explorer).

Try to debug it with adb logcat or Android Studio or Flipper you'll find the error why is crashing :)

I've been using https://github.com/blipinsk/ViewPropertyObjectAnimator and it's amazing

you just use https://github.com/blipinsk/ViewPropertyObjectAnimator for everything, and if you need shared element transtiions you cry (then again, it's not like Compost can do that at all, so)

Animations with views were much easier, you just had to use this lib https://github.com/blipinsk/ViewPropertyObjectAnimator and animator sets made it trivial. If you needed fancy crossfades then TransitionManager.beginDelayedTransition(container) and that's it.

Honestly, they're pretty even in that regard. Whether you use XML or Compose in "simple apps" is up to you. Some things are easier in Compose, and some things are just stupid tricky. Animations in Compose are the worst imo, with ViewPropertyObjectAnimator they used to be trivial for XML layouts.

This is probably just my experience, but with Compose I have to muck around with LaunchedEffects and manual interpolation, while with XML views I could just use https://github.com/blipinsk/ViewPropertyObjectAnimator and AnimatorSet().playTogether().

That, and animations with https://github.com/blipinsk/ViewPropertyObjectAnimator were much easier than linear interpolating in a LaunchedEffect, and shadow support is basically non-existent (Modifier.shadow() doesn't work as you expect, even android:elevation was better).

I like this library https://github.com/blipinsk/ViewPropertyObjectAnimator

I don't know how to write animations without ViewPropertyObjectAnimator https://github.com/blipinsk/ViewPropertyObjectAnimator

Really? I just used https://github.com/blipinsk/ViewPropertyObjectAnimator + AnimatorSet for everything and it always just worked