ViewGroupManager vs SimpleViewManager

Question

In react-native what are the deff* between ViewGroupManager and SimpleViewManager ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I think the answer to that is exactly the same as this:

Difference between View and ViewGroup in Android

SimpleViewManager extends View

and

ViewGroupManager extends ViewGroup

I copy the following image from the above answer that explains their difference:

So to simplify things, it looks like whenever you have a very similar native UI component then you'd wanna use a SimpleViewManager, but if you want to have children within parents then you need to use a ViewGroupManager.