react-native-gifted-chat VS react-native-ui-kitten

This is a well known chat for react native probably it does have anything you need https://github.com/FaridSafi/react-native-gifted-chat

did you use https://github.com/FaridSafi/react-native-gifted-chat

Oh fyi if you’re using gifted chat, don’t forget to implement/patch : https://github.com/FaridSafi/react-native-gifted-chat/issues/2370 It boost the performance

UI Components - React Native Gifted Chat

react-native-gifted-chat is the complete chat UI solution for your application. It offers fully customizable components, multiline text input, avatars, copying messages to the clipboard, attachment options, etc.

I used https://github.com/FaridSafi/react-native-gifted-chat. Not perfect but way faster than me doing it from scratch. Had a hell of a time getting it to play nice on a bottom sheet though, and still feel like I had to hack in getting the keyboard to show up right.

Web-site: https://github.com/FaridSafi/react-native-gifted-chat GitHub stars: 9.4k Price: Free License: MIT License Demo: – Type of support: Community support via GitHub issues Documentation: Full documentation

As the demand for real-time communication grows, developers are looking for easy ways to add reliable communication channels to mobile apps. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to build mobile chat apps for both iOS and Android in React Native using react-native-gifted-chat, a chat UI designed to empower app developers to build cross-platform chat apps.

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

https://akveo.github.io/react-native-ui-kitten/ is a good alternative, i especially like their demo app, I can just refer a client to that and ask them what screens they like.

I found this issue: https://github.com/akveo/react-native-ui-kitten/issues/1704

React Native UI Kitten is a React Native implementation of the Eva Design system. It offers a set of general-purpose UI components styled in the same way to take care of visual appearance. There are a lot of standalone components available as well.

React Native UI Kitten

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UI Kitten: UI Kitten is a React Native framework for creating stunning cross-platform mobile applications. It is based on Eva Design System and provides a set of general purpose UI components styled in a similar way.

Most RN UI libraries do not support responsive design by default. If you require font sizes to vary based on screen sizes or even user's font settings to accommodate native mobile accessibility settings or RN-web, you might end requiring to customize a lot of stuff to the point that you shouldn't use a UI library at all. Here's a deeper dive on this in the context of UI kitten, if you are keen.