[TVDevices]: handling keyevents

[freeboub]

I am optimizing navigation in my TV app (mainly androidTV for now).
To reach a good quality, I use react-native-reanimated which works fine (Thanks to the team!)

But unfortunnately, I still have freeze during navigation due to the react architecture.
I use this library : https://github.com/kevinejohn/react-native-keyevent
To handle keyevents, it is very simple it catches the keyevent in android activity and forward it to JS thread.
Then in the app, the JS thread forward the keyevent to a focusManager and act on differents sharedValues to animate focus.

To sumup, when a keyPress is catched in android UI thread, then the information goes to JS thread and go back to UI thread.
This jump to JS thread causes the freeze (espcially when doing big data treatment).

As a solution I am thinking to handle keyevent callback directly in reanimated.
As sensors (just an exemple) are now handled I think it make sens to handle keyevents handling linked with reanimated.

Here is my question:

• architecturally, how to implement it ?
  I saw gesture handler is binded to reanimated So I have 3 possibilities:
• In reanimated
• In gesture handler
• A new module binded on reanimated.

Please let me know if that request make sense and what is your point of view.

Thank you!

[RenaudAubert]

Hi @freeboub
Did you manage to find a solution for you problem?

[freeboub]

No, but unfortunately, due to other issues, I dropped reanimated from my project...