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A library that provides native primitives to represent screens instead of plain React Native View components for better operating system behavior and screen optimizations.

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react-native-screens provides native primitives to represent screens instead of plain <View> components To better take advantage of operating system behavior and optimizations around screens. This capability is used by library authors and unlikely to be used directly by most app developers. It also provides the native components needed for React Navigation's createNativeStackNavigator.

Note: Please refer to the issue tracker if you encounter any problems.

Installation

Terminal
npx expo install react-native-screens

If you're installing this in a bare React Native app, you should also follow these additional installation instructions.

API

The complete API reference and documentation is available in the README.

To use the native stack navigator, refer to the createNativeStackNavigator documentation.