Navigation Experimental: NavigationHeader scroll with content - react-native

I'm trying to implement scroll-then-fix using NavigationExperimental. (Medium android app implements this.)
First I need to make NavigationHeader scroll with the content instead of fixed at the top. And the Navigation fixed at the top when scrolling to certain position.
My first attempt is let NavigationHeader listen to the scroll event of the NavigationCard, here's the problem:
How do NavigationHeader/NavigationCard communicate each other? NavigationHeader needs to know the scroll position of the NavigationCard to change the state. But they are two separate components.
Or maybe there's an smarter way doing this? Thanks for your help!

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I'm looking for a solution, if possible a library or a custom component, for React Native, without Expo.
I need to create a video frame that is movable in the screen, up and down, and cover the content. I also need to make it possible to click on the content behind it.
Another difficulty is that I need it to stay up on all screens during navigation.
I first tried to use reanimated-bottom-sheet with some increments, but the content behind the bottom is not clickable. Also, to make it available on all screens I needed to put in at the same level as React Navigation's BottomTabNavigator and it covers the tab bar too even with a zIndex.
I also tried to use modals, but I'm relatively new to React Native and couldn't find how to make the background touchable as well as making it movable.
I guess I need to make a view with absolute positionning and learn Reanimated, unless you have a simpler idea?
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React Native Slider should receive swipe and touch gestures, but these are sent to parent ScrollView on Android

In my app, I have horizontal FlatList which is used for swiping between several sub-pages of a screen. This works great.
However, on one of the pages, I have a Slider component. On iOS it works fine, but on Android, the parent ScrollView of the FlatList seems to "steal" the swipe gesture. I am only able to adjust the Slider by clicking very precisely on its thin line, but I cannot adjust it by sliding.
What I need is something like one of these
A view that wraps the Slider component and stops swipe gestures from being propagated to the parent ScrollView
A way to make the FlatList/ScrollView not consume swipes directly on elements that responds to horizontal swipes themself
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Any suggestions for a solution are very appreciated :)
Check example code and result here.
https://snack.expo.io/#esbenvb/mad-yogurt

React native scroll over interactive content

I watched this presentation and there's a section on how to build an IOS Maps like UI. When dragging from the bottom to top, it drags to the top, and after it reaches the top, it continues scrolling up. Also, when scrolling down, when it reached the top content of the ScrollView, it continues to drag down.
It is suggested that it can be done using ScrollView by adding an empty transparent cell as the first element on the ScrollView. I have tried implementing the same which can be found in this snack. In my case, instead of Maps, I am using another ScrollView.
But the problem is that the first element (transparent element) does not allow to interact with the First ScrollView elements. I have tried with pointerEvents inside the first transparent view and even in its parent ScrollView. But this does not help. Has anyone tried implementing this kind of use case with react-native? All I found was this library, but I think it's not maintained properly.
you need to set the z-index of the transparent view to send it under/behind the interactive content, here is a good resource:
https://philipwalton.com/articles/what-no-one-told-you-about-z-index/
Edit: Actually I could not accomplish it, it seems like everything inside a scrollview will always be behind or in front of other elements, it seems like you can't have part of the scrollview behind something else and another part in front of something else.

React Native: ScrollView with auto scroll

I would like to create a carousel that scrolls automatically until the user scrolls / touches the ScrollView itself.
The auto-scrolling itself works fine with using scrollView.scrollTo but how could I detect if the user is interacting with the ScrollView? I took a look at the onScroll event but this does not seem to distinct between a user generated event and an event that was generated by calling scrollTo.
Also I'd like to know if it is possible to get the current scroll position from the ScrollView directly instead of reading it everytime from the onScroll event.
I'm very thankful for any tips and suggestions.
By digging into ScrollView's source code you can notice a few undocumented callbacks that will help you achieve what you're after, namely onTouchStart and onTouchEnd. These two callbacks are triggered only when user interacts with the ScrollView and not when you scroll programmatically.
You will probably want to clear your auto-scroll interval on onTouchStart and restart it after a delay on onTouchEnd.
Regarding your next question, the answer is no. As far as I know, no getter is currently exposed to retrieve the current scroll position. Therefore, you need to rely on the event passed to onScroll, retrieve event.nativeEvent.contentOffset['x' or 'y'], and store it in your component's state.
Note that if you're doing some heavy animations that need to follow scroll position closely (e.g. animated header or parallax image), it would be a good idea to use the native driver for Animated.event. You can learn more about it on React Native's blog.

React Native: How to determine if component is in the view port

That's said there's a long ScrollView with lots of contents, and there's another component at the bottom of the page. I'm trying to lazy-rendering the bottom component when user scroll down enough. Is there any library has implemented this?
(I'm aware of ListView's onEndReached, but not quite sure if that helpful for this case.)
Appreciate if anyone could guide me a direction.
I create a simple lib for this:
https://github.com/chunghe/react-native-defer-renderer
basically you could get scroll position from the onScroll event of the ScrollView (e.nativeEvent.contentOffset), pass the scroll position to the child component. Then in the child component, you could get the distance from top from onLayout event (e.nativeEvent.layout.y).
That's pretty much all the tricks.
Put it at the end of the ScrollView?
ScrollViews do this by default:
removeClippedSubviews bool
Experimental: When true, offscreen child views (whose overflow value is hidden) are removed from their native backing superview when offscreen. This can improve scrolling performance on long lists. The default value is true.
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/scrollview.html#removeclippedsubviews