Motivation

Let's talk about why another React Native carousel library.

Library left unmaintained

According to my knowledge, there are two major library that is excellent in this carousel field, namely react-native-snap-carousel and react-native-swiper. Leaving library unmaintained is usually not a real problem if the library itself is stable enough, like ExpressJS. But upon my usage, both library did not meet my expectation and I will list down their problem here.

react-native-snap-carousel

• swiping the carousel will sometime hang in the middle of swipping, leaving the carousel showing two slides at once.
• swiping is not as smooth
• when loop is enabled, swiping from last slide to first slide will have a blink (beta 4)

react-native-swiper

• It is using ScrollView for Android implementation. When removeSubClipedViews is enabled, sliding from last slide to first slide will blink.

Solution

After trying two of the libraries, I have decided to write a whole new library that is based on react-native-pager-view. Under the hood, it is using Android ViewPager and iOS UIPageViewController. Personally, I think this approach should be more performant as it is using Native Component under the hood. This library does not try to be the next react-native-snap-carousel nor the react-native-swiper, I just built it for my own use case. But of course, I'm still open for any good suggestions!