React Native custom component doesn't set component's size dynamically

Question

I\'m trying to build an RN component that displays Tweets. I forked a great RN component, react-native-fabric-twitterkit and added a component that displays a tweet. So far so g

Answer 1

The github issue linked by @smilledge has the answer.

When adding views dynamically in a native component it seems you need to manually trigger a layout cycle in order for react-native to pick up on the changes. (perhaps related to react native updating it's shadow-view)

 @Override
    public void requestLayout() {
        super.requestLayout();
        post(measureAndLayout);
    }

    private final Runnable measureAndLayout = new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            measure(
                    MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(getWidth(), MeasureSpec.EXACTLY),
                    MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(getHeight(), MeasureSpec.EXACTLY));
            layout(getLeft(), getTop(), getRight(), getBottom());
        }
    };