lottie-react-native VS react-native-geolocation

Further research led me to LottieFiles (not sponsored) — a haven for animation enthusiasts offering a myriad of free animations, including a variety of confetti animations ready to be used. To integrate these animations in a React Native app, the lottie-react-native library comes in handy.

Using Lottie for React Native is an easy way to enrich your app with beautiful animations and make your user happy.

2. Lottie for the sophisticated animated images

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Then watchPosition from @react-native-community/geolocation is definitely the way to go. Here's a link to the example in their repo. This will constantly update the position state variable, which you can then send to a realtime service which other users are subscribed to and consuming. (Depending on your implementation, could be a websocket or some pub/sub service... I've worked with Pusher Channels before for something similar.)

I like this one https://github.com/michalchudziak/react-native-geolocation

For location, you can use the [geolocation library](https://github.com/michalchudziak/react-native-geolocation). If for some reason the user blocks this permission, a neat little trick is to call this API, [https://ipapi.co/json/\]([https://ipapi.co/json/](https://ipapi.co/json/)). They will get the users Longitude and Latitude based on the requesting IP. Of course, that will be masked if they have a VPN running. But it is a second attempt at getting a location.

You can just use react-native-geolocation and it's watchPosition method to just listen to location changes and respond to that accordingly. If it comes within 10-15-20-50 meters from the college you can count that as arrival.

Here's some APIs to look into, maybe you could do searches based on libraries https://github.com/michalchudziak/react-native-geolocation

@react-native-community/geolocation