Anyone good with react-native? I need help cause I'm about to lose my shit 😭 not even exaggerating when I say I've cried many times over this.

What's the problem? I'll try to help. If I can't, there's probably many here who can :)

@hacker hi!!! I have a link to it on stack overflow I'll get it in a sec. But basically.
I'm using a library that was refusing to even render on android and while I was trolling around I saw that it's literally because there is a "flex: 1" in the styling and without it it works but like. Looks dreadful and stuff and everything is all over the place. So I don't know what to do anymore

@al-m I recently started learning React Native so forgive me if this solution is too hacky...
I had a similar issue today with a ScrollView which shrunk its children to fit the screen (I didn't want that). And it was happening because of the 'flex: 1' applied to the view. I removed it and set it's height and width to 100% of the screen dimensions using the Dimension API: https://facebook.github.io/react-na...

Let me know if that works. I'm curious because it worked for me, but perhaps doesn't for other use cases...

I'd like to see if anyone else has any other (better) ideas...

@hacker I'll do that right now actually. Did you remove the flex entirely? And the width and height did you add those to the component itself or the wrapping one?

hmmm, not sure i get how to use this api tbh

@al-m I put it on the wrapping one and removed flex entirely. The children elements, in my case, were given fixed dimensions. I'll post a screen shot of how I did it. Hold up

hmmm, yeah this made it render for sure but like... a lot more issues lol

@al-m something like this:

Which creates this:

@al-m it works perfectly for me. What other issues?
Hopefully I still helped in some way :)