Major improvements

[LunatiqueCoder]

🚧 WIP - This issue might change

👋 Hello @lafiosca. Thank you for all the work on this library!

Here's a list of the changes I've been working on. After we test them in production, we are willing to open pull requests and contribute to the main project.

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Reanimated v3

• Replace Animated with Reanimated
• animateSnapForward prop on a successful drop in a receiver view
• Animate based on scroll position as well (for receiver and dragged views and for animateSnapForward and animateSnapBack)
• Investigate measure() on the UI thread: https://docs.swmansion.com/react-native-reanimated/docs/advanced/measure
• Fix [iOS | Android] DragView does not return to the initial position after React Native 0.72.4 update  #161

▶️ Video of Reanimated proof of concept: https://x.com/LunatiqueCoder/status/1721982083902394694?s=20

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RN Gesture Handler v2

• gesture-handler-2.0 #166 👉 Update underlying react-native-gesture-handler from 1.8 to 2.x #140
• ☝️ While this was an easy one, we're blocked by Gesture.Pan() event callbacks are delayed when there are multiple GestureDetectors with Gesture.Pan() software-mansion/react-native-gesture-handler#2674.
  
  This issue happens when there are a lot of GestureDetectors from the new gesture-handler API. Reducing the number of GestureDetectors (or DraxViews in our case) will make the issue less annoying or even very hard to reproduce.
  
• useLegagyGestureHandler prop if possible to try and avoid as many breaking changes as possible.

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Update examples

• LunatiqueCoder/expo-drax-example which is forked from: nuclearpasta/react-native-drax-example.

[lafiosca]

@LunatiqueCoder Thank you for your thoughtful contributions here and in other issues. As you've likely seen, I do not have the available time and energy to do a good job of maintaining this library these days. If you might be interested to become a maintainer and put your changes into a new major version release, let's have a conversation to discuss that.

[LunatiqueCoder]

@lafiosca Sure. Where would you like to continue the conversation?

[lafiosca]

@LunatiqueCoder Please send me an email about it at joe@lafiosca.com and we'll figure something out from there :)

[nhuesmann]

Has there been any progress on this? Would love to see this library updated, seems like it'd be perfect for my use case if it had current deps, but I def don't have the bandwidth to dive in.

[lafiosca]

@nhuesmann I had a great discussion with @LunatiqueCoder in December, and at that time he was hoping to get something released around the end of year, but I think that some higher priority issues came up for his team. I do not want to speak for him though, so I will let him comment here if he wants!

[LunatiqueCoder]

@nhuesmann @lafiosca Indeed, not only we had some higher priority tasks for our team, but also I have some small health issues and I'm preparing for a thoracic surgery sometime next week, so we we're drastically being delayed with our initial estimation since I am the lead developer on my team. :(

It's still on our list, but it's very hard to estimate right now... We'll keep you posted though.

[lafiosca]

Oh gosh, get well soon @LunatiqueCoder !!!

[RobSchilderr]

thoracic surgery

Hey @LunatiqueCoder how are things going with your health?