Handling Gestures and Animations in React Native

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📌 Handling Gestures and Animations in React Native

🎯 Goal

Learn how to handle gestures and animations to improve the user experience in React Native.

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✅ Why is this important?

Focus Bear relies on gestures for interactive UI elements and animations for smooth transitions. React Native provides built-in tools to achieve this.

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✅ Tasks

• Research gesture handling in React Native (react-native-gesture-handler)
• Explore how animations work (react-native-reanimated)
• Experiment with basic gestures like swiping and long press
• Create a simple animation using Animated API
• **Investigate the role of InteractionManager **

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✅ Reflection (rn-gestures-animations.md)

• What are the differences between Animated and react-native-reanimated?
• How does react-native-gesture-handler improve gesture performance?
• When would you use gestures instead of buttons in a UI?
• Why is InteractionManager.runAfterInteractions necessary?