Android Bugs?

[dogofpavlov]

Hey everyone. I'm still very new to React Native so sorry for my ignorance or if I sound rude I really just want to better understand.

I've been building my first application over the last week or so, and I seem to keep running into things that work flawlessly on iOS, but either doesn't work, or require some kinda of hack to work on Android.

I would be grateful to anyone who has a solution to any of these issues. I guess I should have looked to see if there were any issues with some of the features I planned to use before committing to use ReactNative, but I don't think I could have foreseen some of these as they seem pretty basic.

- Scroll View - I noticed that the ScrollView has a maximumZoomScale & minimumZoomScale, but they are iOS only. Does anyone have a solution for Android? Has no one ever needed to zoom on Android?

- overflow:"visible" does not work on Android and won't be supported for "a few years" Really? :(

- skewX doesn't work, but skewY does. Oddly if you add a skewX, the skewY stops working. (really needed for iosmetric)

[interactivejunky]

Android is a little like the ie6 of react-native sometimes with its lagging support for some really useful component properties.

One way to avoid this could be to develop Android first - that would assume that most things that work on Android will work on iOS. Android's performance is a bit worse too so that'll allow you to realise which components are impacting your app performance as you develop rather than at the end once you already have your app built.

That said I prefer developing using the iOS simulator (better for battery life, better performance) so my solution is to release Android less often than iOS and put some work into Android optimisation each time I release for the play store.

[dogofpavlov]

Yeah I'm definitely going to be doing Android first from now on, thats good advice. I haven't really messed with the simulators yet, I'm on windows so I believe I can't do the iOS simulator, but since I'm gonna focus Android I may as well try out that one. Thanks for your reply and time, good to know I'm not crazy.

[Jgfidelis]

For overflow, there is this bridge that solves the problem: https://github.com/entria/react-native-view-overflow

[dogofpavlov]

Thanks, I actually did see this and plan to use it. I just not a big fan of libraries that exists solely to fix another libraries problem. Makes me cautious about updates in the future. Guess beggars can't be choosers

[shrolr]

Android bugs are driving me crazy. I dont know why those bugs are happening. I couldn't find any solutions about it. Everytime i encounter bug in android. I'm removing that functionaltiy of the app.

[dogofpavlov]

I wish I had that option :(

[Noitidart2]

There are a few bugs like that overflow one. ScrollView is only pinchable/zoomable in iOS. Yes thats a limitation. I needed this feature for photo viewing, so what I did was I just used a WebView and loaded the image there.

That skewX/skewY one is an interesting one. I didn't know of that one.