React native Android ScrollView scrollTo not working

Question

I am trying to use a horizontal ScrollView in React Native for Android, where the starting position is in the middle of the scrolling images rather than (0,

Answer 1

This works on React Native 0.44.0. Thanks for the hint @Eldelshell. It also seems to work with any timeout value. At least on the emulator. I found that the answer involving InteractionManager.runAfterInteractions did nothing to fix the issue but perhaps that's a difference in versions.

componentDidMount() {
  setTimeout(() => {
    this._scroll.scrollTo({y: 100})
  }, 1)
}