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John Shelley
John Shelley

Reputation: 2655

React Native Lists - RecyclerView & UITableView

I'm curious why React Native doesn't utilize the native platform list components such as RecyclerView for Android and UITableView (CollectionView) for iOS.

This could ideally provide a lot more feature support and improved performance then what is currently available.

Is there a reason the React Native lists are solely backed by ScrollViews instead?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 2608

Answers (2)

Abhi Krishnan
Abhi Krishnan

Reputation: 184

For Recycler View in Android. Try this.

react-native-recycler-listview

Works ! Some gradle setup required though.

Upvotes: 0

Moss Palmer
Moss Palmer

Reputation: 1854

I couldn't personally tell you but quoting the Author.

UITableView API is not well suited for the asynchronous nature of ReactNative, and the resulting code was pretty gross, especially when trying to do smooth animations to grow the heights of rows, which we do in the groups app.

Source: Early discussion on the very point.

Upvotes: 6

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