React Native Animations in 2023 and Beyond

Miron says Reanimated 3 remains compatible with animations written for Reanimated 2, while dropping the legacy Reanimated 1 API and adding Fabric support. Version 3.4 brought progress-based shared element transitions, border-radius interpolation, reduced-motion detection, and support for React Native 0.72. He also covers layout animations on web, macOS, Windows, and visionOS.

Shared element transitions keep an element visually connected as users move between screens. Miron demonstrates matching elements by a shared transition tag, including transitions in both directions and transitions involving multiple elements. He notes support for Expo Router 2 and React Navigation’s Native Stack.

Miron highlights Reanimated’s `useReducedMotion` hook, which lets apps adapt animations to the system setting by fading, changing the animation, or skipping it. He also points to redesigned documentation with interactive spring controls for adjusting damping and stiffness, and says configurations can be copied into a project.

Miron explains how a marquee loops content through a viewport by cloning it and moving each copy back to the tail when it leaves view. He introduces a Reanimated 3 component available on npm that supports Expo, TypeScript, and iOS, Android, web, macOS, and Windows. Examples include scrolling text, boxes, and a news ticker; the component uses `useFrameCallback`.

A stagger animation offsets the start time for each item so a group moves in sequence rather than all at once. Miron introduces `anime-react-native-stagger`, which supports entering and exiting animations, direction, and initial delays. It supports the same listed platforms, and web layout animations require Reanimated 3.4.