Scroll behaviour difference between iOS and Android

Currently there is difference between how scroll behaves between both platforms. On iOS, vertical scroll in the feed feels “dampened”: after releasing the finger, the list keeps scrolling for a long time and slows down gradually. On Android, scroll stops much faster and feels more “instant.”

Cause: Different default scroll physics:

• iOS (UIScrollView): Default decelerationRate is ~0.998, so momentum is long and scroll coasts for a while.

• Android: Default behavior stops scroll sooner, so it feels more instant.

Possible solutions to align behaviour:

• patching or overwriting UIScrollView for this specific case

• Replace list with carousel pattern, or combine both to get desired result

Comparison of how scroll feels down below, iOS and Android:

Nagranie.z.ekranu.2026-02-5.o.15.34.46.mov

Nagranie.z.ekranu.2026-02-5.o.15.35.30.mov

[TowhidKashem]

hey @jakubszymanski-twg, I saw that on x you mentioned that you solved the deacceleration issue and it does look like the visual part of it is solved, the slides seem to be quite quick to stop when you go from one to the next! However a slide isn't responsive to tap gestures immediately upon landing to a new slide, and that's the other half of the issue. When you swipe to a new slide, its contents should be instantly interactive, instead on iOS (I haven't tested android since I only support iOS), it takes a moment before that happens. In this video you can see the tap gestures, here I am trying to pause each video as soon as I land on it, but as you can see it takes 2 taps on average for me to be able to pause each video instead of just 1 tap:

demo.mp4

In my app I have a full screen image feed (not video), each image is wrapped in a pressable component which when tapped takes the user to another route. Since I couldn't get the List based approach to work (tried Flash and Legend lists), I tried to add recycling support to https://github.com/callstack/react-native-pager-view but that turned out to be buggy. Eventually I settled on a custom implementation using https://github.com/dohooo/react-native-reanimated-carousel. Here's the stripped down version of that so you can see my current feed:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uZVLxugNFxr-Fndfmz7nfUniQGkNs557?usp=sharing

but I would definitely prefer a flash or legend list based option if it was possible to overcome the touch responsiveness issue above. Because with my current carousel based component, it feels like there's a memory leak somewhere since after a couple hundred swipes it seems to slow down the screen a lot. Would be awesome of you could resolve the touch issue!