react-native-gesture-handler VS react-native-reanimated

To draw stuff? Maybe https://docs.swmansion.com/react-native-gesture-handler/

For swiping in mode screens I use Reanimated with React Native Gesture Handler. In sound shop swipe is implemented through a simple ScrollView which is built into RecyclerListView. I didn't quite understand the second part of the question tho

1.React Native Gesture Handler 2.React Native Material UI 3.Native Base; (Cross-platform UI components for React Native) 4.React-Native-UI-Kitten 5.Axious; (HTTP client for the browser and Node.js) 6.React Native Maps

Your PanGestureHandler is handling all the clicks. Please check this library from Software Mansion: https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-gesture-handler You can replace PanGestureHandler with other handlers. Last part is to import TouchableOpacity from RNGH and it will work out of the box.

Thanks :) react-native-gesture-handler and the base Animated API

I'm not sure about the built-in Animated module, but in Reanimated it works.

I don't have a good grasp on the native implementation, but here's an issue I opened a while back with a repro: https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-reanimated/issues/2845

That would be nice, although I took a quick spin on the reanimated example app with new architecture enabled and didn't notice much difference: https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-reanimated/tree/main/FabricExample

I think it depends on the app. You say the app will be heavy on animations. With that bit of information I would definitely avoid React Native. Go pure native. It will be a lot more work of course, since you need to build 2 apps. But even with the excellent Reanimated 2 library for React Native (which does the animation work on a "native" UI thread rather than the JS thread), animations are challenging. I'm currently struggling with an unresolved bug in the Reanimated 2 library that is killing me - my app is crashing when the user simply switches to landscape mode. I'm sure this wouldn't happen with a "pure" native app. (There would be a whole set of _other_ problems, though, for sure).

I’ve used react-native-reanimated package for animation. Reanimated library has been with us for a while. About two years ago they had a massive update and introduced Reanimated2. It worth checking (if you haven’t yet).

The only other issue is that JS UI updates are single threaded. This can cause an issue with layout animations, but Reanimated has fixed this issue for the most part.

While I'm excited for this core package to move forward, I'm bummed they're dropping support for v1 while v2 still has unaddressed performance issues (see the issue I opened here: https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-reanimated/issues/2845).

Layout Animations are the easiest way to animate entering, exiting and change layout of your React Native components with Reanimated 2 library.