Does it suitable for mobile app development.

[krjk333]

I am newbie to react-three-fiber and I am an intermediator in three. js., I already developed an web application using three.js in normal .html file. Now I am trying to do the same application as mobile application. For this, I tried a lot with expo-three and some other npms, but that is not suitable for that. Now only I heard about react-three-fiber. Does it suitable for my need? Thanks in advanced

[drcmda]

r3f and expo work great together and that would allow you to make native mobile apps that do not rely on a webview or webgl, but opengles.

[krjk333]

@drcmda Thank you for your kind reply. Yes the basic functionalities are working properly. But some features like OrbitControls are not working . I tested a sample application which is created with the expo and r3f. And I started that with "expo start" then I run that application in Web browser, it is working perfectly. Then I run that in expo client mobile application. at that time OrbitControls is not working. I already asked this in Three.js discourse forum too. they told, since the orbitcontrols having some components of browsers, it may not working. So only I am searching any alternate for that. I think, you only said that , https://discourse.threejs.org/t/cross-platform-app-development-runtime-in-threejs/20346/6

[drcmda]

I believe expo has their own or at least they will know best where to look. Three orbit controls are tied to the browser via pointer events which don't exist in RN.

[krjk333]

Yes @drcmda . But there is a way for that, https://github.com/cryslub/history-expo . Please have a look into this example. Here React-Native-gesture-handler is used to get the input from the user and convert that to the inputs of OrbitControls. It is working fine