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akveo/kittenTricks
React Native starter kit with over 40 screens and modern Light and Dark theme for creating stunning cross-platform mobile applications.
A React Native demo app and starter kit built on top of Akveo's UI Kitten component library, showing off 40+ pre-built screens across common app domains (auth, e-commerce, social, fitness). It's primarily a showcase for UI Kitten and the Eva Design System — useful if you're already bought into that ecosystem, less useful if you're not. Last meaningful commit was February 2024.
40+ screens covering real app patterns (auth flows, chat, e-commerce, dashboards) means you can copy-paste layouts rather than build them from scratch. Runtime theme switching between light and dark is wired up and actually works — not a common starter kit feature. TypeScript throughout with clean component structure. Expo compatibility means you can skip native build setup entirely to evaluate it.
The repo is effectively unmaintained — last push February 2024, and UI Kitten itself has slow-moving issues with React Native's newer architecture (Fabric/TurboModules). Hard dependency on UI Kitten means you're adopting a fairly opinionated component library that isn't NativeBase or Tamagui, so team familiarity matters. Navigation is React Navigation v5, which is two major versions behind current. The 'starter kit' framing is a stretch — there's no state management, no API layer, no auth logic; it's screens and components only.