react-native-elements vs react-native-vector-icons

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react-native-elements		react-native-vector-icons
	Project
20	Mentions	26
24,556	Stars	17,200
0.5%	Growth	-
6.8	Activity	7.0
12 days ago	Latest Commit	20 days ago
MDX	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

react-native-elements

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-native-elements. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-20.

Getting started with React Native authentication
2 projects | dev.to | 20 Nov 2023

Once we've set up the storage mechanism, building an email and password sign in flow becomes pretty straight forward. Install react-native-elements to get some nice cross platform button and input fields:
Tips to create an app UI when you are not a designer
2 projects | /r/reactnative | 5 Jul 2023
What’s RN’s version of Material-UI or Tailwind for React?
8 projects | /r/reactnative | 4 Jun 2023

Some that also come up are: * https://github.com/akveo/react-native-ui-kitten * https://github.com/draftbit/react-native-jigsaw/tree/master/packages/ui * https://github.com/callstack/react-native-paper * https://github.com/GeekyAnts/NativeBase * https://github.com/react-native-elements/react-native-elements
7 Popular React Native UI Component Libraries You Should Know
6 projects | dev.to | 17 Jan 2023

React Native Elements provides an all-in-one UI kit for creating a cross-platform application in React Native. It has over 23k stars on Github.
Top 10+ Best React Native UI Components for Mobile App Development
28 projects | dev.to | 4 Jan 2023

React Native Elements
Top 5 React Native UI Libraries
4 projects | dev.to | 4 Jan 2023

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React vs React Native: How Different Are They, Really?
12 projects | dev.to | 19 Dec 2022

CSS-based UI libs don't make sense on mobile; your new options include NativeBase, React Native Elements and others). Some web-based UI libs do have RN siblings though - such as React Native Material and React Native Paper (for Material-UI), and tailwind-rn (for Tailwind). This just means new decisions to make, some learning, and new paradigms for how to use the new libs.
React Native Top UI Components Libraries
2 projects | dev.to | 28 Jul 2022

Github Documentation Stars ⭐ +22.6k
React Native Elements users, what do you think of this?
1 project | /r/reactnative | 22 Apr 2022
How to change background color with React Native Elements theme property?
1 project | /r/reactnative | 2 Apr 2022

I have started using React Native Elements (https://reactnativeelements.com) for a new project.

react-native-vector-icons

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-native-vector-icons. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-20.

Unit Testing Expo Apps With Jest
7 projects | dev.to | 20 Feb 2024

I got this error when I was importing from a library such as react-native-vector-icons:
Top 10+ Best React Native UI Components for Mobile App Development
28 projects | dev.to | 4 Jan 2023

React Native Vector Icons
Hello guys, vectos icons is not working in react latest version. Is this only me or anyone else facing issue,
1 project | /r/reactnative | 15 Oct 2022
Issues with font & unicode boxes
3 projects | /r/awesomewm | 30 Jun 2022

I don't even remember where I downloaded Feather.tff but the codepoints are different from this one and this one. But maybe you have the same font I do installed? Does fc-match ':family=Feather' show a result?
Getting npm ERR! exited with error code: 128
1 project | /r/codehunter | 4 May 2022

I tried 'RNVectorIcons' package in my react native project using the following link react-native-vector-icons.I used pod install command in my terminal.But I got the following error in my terminal window.
React native vector icon not working on current version 0.60
1 project | /r/codehunter | 25 Mar 2022

React native autolink not working for react native vector icons. I fixed this into android with this https://github.com/oblador/react-native-vector-icons/issues/1035
Building an Alert Modal with React Native
2 projects | dev.to | 25 Jan 2022

Tip: although I used a Text component to make the X button, I strongly recommend you to use an icon instead. A very good library for that purpose is React Native Vector Icons
New React Native Vector Icons Directory
1 project | /r/reactnative | 20 Jan 2022

Also thanks to oblador for making the library and the original directory, I use(d) it pretty much every day!
Does the Material Icons font include ALL icons?
1 project | /r/xamarindevelopers | 19 Jan 2022

Also, there's a site that someone built for a react-native plugin that shows all of the icons that are available. It's just a long list of icons broken down by the font type. I use it to search across multiple font files so I can decide which one has what I need. You can find that at https://oblador.github.io/react-native-vector-icons/
Top React Native UI Component Libraries
8 projects | dev.to | 21 Dec 2021

Web-site: https://oblador.github.io/react-native-vector-icons/ GitHub stars: 13.5k Price: Free License: Apache License 2.0 Demo: – Type of support: Community support via GitHub issues Documentation: Full documentation

What are some alternatives?

When comparing react-native-elements and react-native-vector-icons you can also consider the following projects:

NativeBase - Mobile-first, accessible components for React Native & Web to build consistent UI across Android, iOS and Web.

react-native-paper - Material Design for React Native (Android & iOS)

sp-dev-fx-webparts - SharePoint Framework web part, Teams tab, personal app, app page samples

expo - An open-source platform for making universal native apps with React. Expo runs on Android, iOS, and the web.

react-native-render-html - iOS/Android pure javascript react-native component that renders your HTML into 100% native views

react-native-web - Cross-platform React UI packages

react-keycloak - React/React Native/NextJS/Razzle components for Keycloak

react-native-material-ui - Highly customizable material design components for React Native

flat-list-mvcp - "maintainVisibleContentPosition" prop support for Android react-native

react-native-snap-carousel - Swiper/carousel component for React Native featuring previews, multiple layouts, parallax images, performant handling of huge numbers of items, and more. Compatible with Android & iOS.