Replace React Native Modal Box

[josh-griffin]

The suggestion

We use the package react-native-modalbox. It has some issues - in particular that the component is both controlled and uncontrolled which causes glitchy behaviour.

It is also unmainted with 130+ issues and people requesting forks etc.

Why?

Oh.. But I put this in the suggestion.

Describe alternatives you've considered

"Dealing" with it.

Additional context

I can't find a different component which will do what we want. In particular, we use this modal as a 'popup' at the bottom of the screen which has 'click-through' - so, it's not really a modal per se (Did I use that right?).

Options:

• Rewrite react-native internal modal component to allow for click through: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/Libraries/Modal/Modal.js
• Create a simple View which animates in. Problem: Need to run animation on JS thread as UI thread doesn't allow animations of layout props
• Find a modal package which allows click through

[josh-griffin]

Have investigated this a bit more and the internal state issue can be fixed by replacing the modal box but the jankiness of the animations are a bit more difficult, we really need to run the animation on the UI thread, but that's not possible unless we enable hermes