There were some issue with the ART library on Android, so I decided to use react-native-svg instead. Not sure if that was a good idea though. I have some general questions, if you know the answer or can otherwise contribute to the discussion, please post a comment.
I read the RN ART implementation is more efficient than react-native-svg, but that some while ago and might have changed. This is the main reason why I decided to use ART rather than react-native-svg in the first place!
ART is already shipped with RN, whilst react-native-svg needs to be installed with npm. For iOS, ART needs to be linked manually in XCode, whilst for react-native-svg you can just use react-native link, so the effort for installing each one is about the same. Is it possible to make the SVG installation automatic by adding a post-install script or something like that to package.json?
Does react-native-svg support the standard Animatable from RN? For ART that didn't work and I ended up writing a custom Tweener class, which updates values on the state in requestAnimatinFrame loop.
What about the name? ARTy Charty no longer makes sense, but SVGy Charty doesn't sound as good. Any suggestions?
TO-DO
[ ] react-native-svg supports
[ ] react-native-svg supports other elements than just Path, so maybe we can remove our functions that make SVG paths from shape parameters. test which is more efficient, probably using the react-native-svg elements
[ ] Check if all features still work, especially things like strokeDasharray, if I remember correctly, the ART implementation of that feature used slightly different parameters than normal SVG
[ ] Clean up code - the SVG migration was rather rushed and dirty, needs clean up!!
There were some issue with the ART library on Android, so I decided to use react-native-svg instead. Not sure if that was a good idea though. I have some general questions, if you know the answer or can otherwise contribute to the discussion, please post a comment.
react-native link, so the effort for installing each one is about the same. Is it possible to make the SVG installation automatic by adding a post-install script or something like that to package.json?TO-DO