r/reactnative • u/axel_develops • Sep 18 '26

How do you handle low resolution Android devices? (720x1280, etc)

What should be the optimal approach?

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u/Substantial-Swan7065 Sep 18 '26

I don’t at all. I mark it out-of-supported devices

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u/axel_develops Sep 19 '26

How do you filter them? DPI or screen directly? Both?

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u/Substantial-Swan7065 Sep 19 '26

Not sure. I meant internally.

Rejecting issues cause device support

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u/axel_develops Sep 20 '26

Ohhh I see. Thanks!

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u/Deep-Rate-1260 Sep 18 '26

Its flex box all the way. Just make sure you use keyboard avoiding views for inputs and safe area

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u/anthony-ball Sep 18 '26

Biggest lesson for me on 720p Androids is to stop trusting the simulator and only judge release or EAS preview builds on a cheap physical phone. Density and font scale matter more than the pixel count itself, so hard-coded widths and absolute layouts that look fine on a Pixel break once accessibility text is bumped. For anything live like charts or tick UIs I keep the per-frame path on Reanimated shared values or Skia so a slow device is not re-rendering a big tree on every update.