Rive in React Native – the Good, the Bad and the Janky
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At the same time I was going through it trying to implement a handful of Rive animations in our app built with React Native, with not so stellar results and a taste in my mouth so bad that it inspired me to write about it.
Mostly to discourage other small teams(with a solo dev like us) saving their roadmaps in process and to share how I intend to tackle animations in the future.