Rive in React Native – The Good, the Bad and the Janky

The day spotify wrapped dropped, I found out accidentally that they had used Rive as their team was happy to share this on X.

At the same time I was going through it trying to implement a handful of Rive animations in our app built with React Native, with not so stellar results and a taste in my mouth so bad that it inspired me to write about it.

Mostly to discourage other small teams(with a solo dev like us) saving their roadmaps in process and to share how I intend to tackle animations in the future.