Hi there, thanks so much for the bug reports! Would love to see a screenshot of the clipped icon if you could e-mail it to me at rawrmaan@gmail.com.
The flickering when viewing lightbox/modal views is actually due to my navigation library, react-native-navigation, which is otherwise excellent. I believe they're fixing that in their v2 release, at which point those transitions should be indistinguishable from native.
I've also made a ton of progress on Android performance in the past month, including the mindblowing realization that I had set hardwareAccelerated=false in my app's manifest over a year ago. The game should now be very smooth in all views, even on very low-end Android devices :)