React Native Multiplatform: Recreating Apple & Google Photo...

The second article in an “Apple Photos” React Native series focuses on adapting a cross-platform photo-gallery app for TVs, covering tvOS, Android TV, and Amazon Fire TV. It explains how to handle key differences from mobile, including TV-compatible configuration, remote-control navigation design, and limitations in library support. The piece notes that React Native is primarily built for Android and iOS, but TV support is limited, so it uses forks that add TV-required features for Apple TV and Android TV. For Expo projects, it recommends using an Expo plugin that updates native files, removes unsupported dependencies, and adds needed TV assets before build.