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Remove the dependency on react-native-video

See original GitHub issue

Video playback seems out of the scope of this project and creates a lot of headaches.

If you are already using react-native-video in your project, adding this library will break it
This library uses an outdated version of react-native-video so even if you jump through the hoops of using the version in this library, instead of the one you installed yourself, you now must use an old version

This would resolve a number of open issues. Most notably…

https://github.com/FaridSafi/react-native-gifted-chat/issues/1093 https://github.com/FaridSafi/react-native-gifted-chat/issues/1172

Issue Analytics

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Created 4 years ago
Reactions:15
Comments:8 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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danilobuergercommented, Jul 19, 2019

not stale

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CatapultJessecommented, May 9, 2019

For the moment I just run a postinstall: "postinstall": "rimraf node_modules/react-native-gifted-chat/node_modules/react-native-video", But agree it should be made a peerDependency