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Problems with using rive assets with nested art

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
react-native, typescript
Domain
mobile-dev

Research direction

Start with the linked repro, comparing its parent-artboard and nested-artboard tabs across iOS and Android. Read useSetRiveRenderer.ts and investigate the reported scrolling, click, button-state, and virtualized-node input behavior. Done means the listed issues no longer reproduce with nested art assets on the affected native platforms.

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Description

Description

Rive assets with an artboard that leverages nested artboards have a couple of issues.

IOS

  • Scrolling on lists is not as smooth (best perceived when slowly scrolling)

Android

  • Click events are not firing nearly as often as they should be
  • Can not hold and keep buttons depressed (possibly related)

Both Platforms

  • Nodes below the fold (likely those caught in virtualization) sometimes don't have their inputs set.

These problems are not observed with rive assets that don't use nested artboards or when directly using the nested artboard as opposed to the parent artboard.
None of these issues exist on web either.

Provide a Repro

https://github.com/GibbyBox/repro-nested-artboard-native-issues

Source .riv/.rev file

.riv committed in repro
ui_nodes.rev.zip

Device & Versions (please complete the following information)
  • Device: Iphone 15 Pro Max, Google Pixel 7a
  • OS: iOS 18.3.1, Android API level 34
  • NPM Version: 10.5.2
Additional Context

The provided repro has two tabs - one where I use the parent artboard and one where I instead use the nested artboard. I've also tested and can confirm this issues exists on all rive rendering engines (can be configured in useSetRiveRenderer.ts)

Dominant language
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