wtf is expo-coverflow-carousel?

expo-coverflow-carousel is a React Native component that recreates the classic iPod Cover Flow effect, where album covers rotate and stack in 3D space, with the centered one facing you directly while the ones on either side tilt away. It is built for mobile apps made with Expo and React Native, and is meant to be dropped into an app as a ready made carousel rather than built from scratch. Each cover also gets a live reflection rendered underneath it using a graphics library called Skia, rather than a simple static image, so the reflection matches the actual cover being shown. Users can flick through the covers with a swipe gesture that has momentum, or tap any cover off to the side to have it spring into the center position. The component automatically sizes and spaces the covers based on the screen width, so it adapts to different phone sizes without extra configuration. Setting it up involves installing the package along with several peer dependencies for gestures, animations, safe area handling, and the Skia graphics library, then wrapping the app in the required provider components. Developers can pass in their own list of albums, each needing only an image URL to display, and can listen for a callback whenever the active cover changes, which is useful for updating a song title, seek bar, or a vibration cue as the user browses. The component is also designed to be customized: the blurred background behind the covers can have its blur strength and overlay color adjusted, and constants like the rotation angle, 3D perspective distance, and how many covers stay active on each side can all be tuned in a single settings file. It is built with TypeScript throughout, so every prop and data shape is fully typed.