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Let users override "useNativeDriver" for Shimmer / ActivityIndicator - #1148
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| const nativeVersion = Platform.constants.reactNativeVersion; | ||
| if (Platform.OS === 'macos' && nativeVersion.minor >= 62) { | ||
| return true; | ||
| } else if (nativeVersion.minor >= 66) { | ||
| return true; | ||
| } else { | ||
| return false; | ||
| } |
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This isn't a perfect check of whether we are running with react-native-macos or not: An iOS or Android app could be running with react-native-macos 0.63, and this would return false where it should return true. I couldn't think of a better way to do it though.
| /** | ||
| * overrides the useNativeDriver prop on the component's animation | ||
| */ | ||
| useNativeDriver?: boolean; |
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can we not expose it as a prop if we do the RN version check inside the component?
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I added the prop in case, say, a user is using some other fork of react-native or managed to patch react-native to include that fix, so they could override our default value.
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I feel like we are trying to cover all use cases rather than take it one step at a time. I personally think exposing this as a prop can be risky as it could affect performance of the control.
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Talked offline, and I'm closing this in favor of a different solution |
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Description of changes
A client team would like to use Shimmer & ActivityIndicator. However, we would want to make sure we set
useNativeDriverfor those applications properly to ensure the best performance based on their react-native version. Due to a bug with animations (fixed with react/react-native#29585 and microsoft/react-native-macos#763), we can't set the useNativeDriver prop to true unless we're on RN 0.66+ or RN-macOS 0.62+.Let's add a check that sets
useNativeDriverto it's proper value based on our RN version, and also adduseNativeDriveras a prop to Shimmer and ActivityIndicator, should the client need to override it for whatever reason (lex: they patch the bug in their own repo, or update to a newer version of react-native).Verification
Ran the iOS and macOS test app with console.logs of the what value
useNativeDriveris set to, to make sure it was set properly.Pull request checklist
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