screen freezes on Android when reading file

[jadfls]

Hi,

when running following code on Android the UI freezes while reading the file.

console.log("LOAD from file");
const contents = await RNFS.readFile(RNFS.DocumentDirectoryPath+"/myfile.data");

The file is rather large (10MB). I read the note on readFile:

Note: you will take quite a performance hit if you are reading big files

But how can I run the reading in the background?

In iOS the screen does not freeze or only freezes for a short period as the reading happens much faster.

[Yoshihide-Nishimoto]

same here

[hafizMDM]

Is there any solution for this?

[arshiyanaz]

same here