How to tell if a react native package will work in Expo?

How to tell if a react native package will work in Expo?

Are they usually the ones that require react-native link or some manual installation?

Thanks.

In short, yes - if they require you to run react-native link or perform some manual setup in Xcode/Android Studio, it won’t work with Expo as it’s dependent on custom native modules.

If you want to use such a library, you have two options:

  1. Detach to ExpoKit
  2. Find and vote for a request to add the library on canny, or create a new feature request

if I detach to expokit, i can still use the expo api like mapview etc right?

Yes.

https://docs.expo.io/versions/v27.0.0/expokit/detach

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