https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/layoutanimation.html This page says the following: > Note that in order to get this to work on Android you need to set the following flags via UIManager: > UIManager.setLayoutAnimationEnabledExperimental && UIManager.setLayoutAnimationEnabledExperimental(true); What is unclear is if this needs to be done once globally, or on a per component basis. This should be made clearer.