We're closing the State of React Native survey this Sunday, so if you haven't filled it out, you still have a couple of days! survey.2025.stateofreactnative.com

Join us at the 6th edition of App.js Conf: the React Native & Expo event you cannot miss! 🔥 We just published the workshops' line-up & you can book the tickets at the early bird price! 🐣 Check it out here: appjs.co#workshops

Reanimated 4.2.0 is here, and it brings gifts! 🔥 🎁 Long-awaited Shared Element Transitions 🎉 Not production-ready yet, so they’re behind a feature flag. Please, test it out and give us feedback! 🎁 Experimental performance fixes, inspired by real apps...

We know the pain of slow native builds… so we created something really awesome to fix them. 😎 Introducing RN Repo: a free, open-source plugin that makes shipping React Native apps faster thanks to prebuilt artifacts. ⚡️🚀 Try it out now in beta: rnrepo.org

Detour is finally available to everyone! 🤩 Early testers helped us refine UX, parameter handling between links & redirects, and more – making it a deferred deep linking tool you can rely on. Got feedback? Try it, open issues on GitHub, or drop us a message. 🤞 docs.swmansion.com/detour/

React Native RAG 0.2.0 is out 🎉 A leaner, more flexible API for creating RAGs in React Native is waiting for you!

React Native Screens will provide Native Split View 🚀 Coming soon to your favorite navigation libraries!

New in Radon 1.12 👇 🌐 Improved Network Inspector – syntax highlighting, copy to cURL, fetch & more 📱 iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro device support ✨ Radon AI can see build & bundle logs 🔧 Run a single Metro server on a specific port ⚛️ Support for React Native 0.82

Most deferred deep link tools are built for marketers, leaving devs stuck with cluttered interfaces and features they don’t need 😒. ⚡ Here comes the Detour: open-source, lightweight, and designed for engineers – production-ready and reliable. ➡️ Join the waitlist: lnkd.in/dRjRrej2

React Native 0.82 now includes experimental support for Hermes V1 – Meta just announced it at React Conf. Check out our blog to learn what it is, how it differs from Static Hermes, and how to enable it. 🚀 blog.swmansion.com/welcoming-th...

React Native Audio API 0.9.0 has shipped 🚢 with support for react-native-worklets! This allows to run custom JS functions either as callbacks on UI thread or as simple signal processors on audio thread. The release brings a lot of smaller improvements and bug-fixes too, so check our GitHub! ✨

WebRTC vs HLS? ⚡ In a nutshell, WebRTC delivers sub-second latency crucial for live interactions, while HLS is simple to set up and scales to millions of viewers with standard infrastructure. 🌐 For details on latency, scalability & costs, check our guide👇 blog.swmansion.com/webrtc-vs-hl...

You say layout animations in React Native, we think Reanimated 4 🐎 Download our cheat sheet for ready-to-use code snippets and API overviews! ✨ docs.swmansion.com/react-native...

Meet KMP Maps – a universal map component for Compose Multiplatform 🌍 ✅ Cross-platform API for Android & iOS ⚡ Native performance powered by Google Maps & Apple MapKit 🎨 Support for markers, circles & custom map styling 🙌 Interactive callbacks handling clicks, gestures & camera movements And more!

From no-code setups to complex workflows, we’ve rounded up the best AI agent frameworks for building autonomous LLM-based systems. 🤖 Check out the article and find the right tool for your project 👇 blog.swmansion.com/the-best-ai-...

Need to animate style properties between two or more states? ✨ Use CSS Transitions to animate a button’s size on press, show/hide a modal, or change a container’s color. 👉 Grab the Reanimated 4 Cheat Sheet for API overviews and code snippets 😎

Introducing Expo Live Activity 🚀 A React Native module for @expo.dev that manages iOS Live Activities and brings real-time updates to the lock screen. ▶️ Start, update & stop Live Activities directly from your RN app ⚡ Enjoy simple integration with a JS-only API 📲 Handle push notification tokens

CSS Animations are perfect for fire-and-forget effects like: ✔️ loading spinners ✔️ pulsing effects ✔️ UI elements that animate independently of user interaction Download Reanimated 4 Cheat Sheet to get ready-to-use code snippets and API overviews! 🚀

If you’re here, chances are you’re into React Native, AI, and multimedia. And we’ve got something for you! 🎉 We've opened newsletter signups on our website, so make sure to subscribe to stay in the loop with updates and insights. 🤓

Knock, knock 👀 Up for some React Native Reanimated 4 tips? 🐎 Download our cheat sheet with API overviews and code snippets covering CSS Animations & Transitions, Shared Values, and Layout Animations. ✨

Meet React Native Enriched – a fully native rich text editor for React Native! 🚀 ⚡ High-performance rich text input 🌐 Optimal HTML output 🎨 Customizable with CSS styling 🕹 Style toggling using imperative API 🏛 New Architecture only

React Native Audio API 0.8.0 has landed! 🎶 📂 Native support for a wider range of popular audio formats, including Opus, OGG, MP4, M4A, and AAC 🌊 Support for HLS Streaming (HTTP Live Streaming) ✅ A few key performance bottlenecks eliminated 🐛 Lots of bug fixes 🚀 Support for React Native 0.81

Radon IDE 1.11 fresh out of the oven! 🧑‍🍳 📁 Device File Transfer – send files to device 🌐 Improved Network Inspector – filtering, sorting, UX improvements, performant list of requests 🐛 Step Into/Step Out controls in debugger overlay 🆕 Expo SDK 54 support

React Native ExecuTorch 0.5.0 is here & it brings: ✅ Up to 2x faster Whisper performance on iOS ✅ C++ JSI bindings for zero-copy data transfer ✅ LLM structured output using Zod schemas ✅ CLIP model for image→text understanding Go ahead and ship that fully local AI feature you’ve been waiting for ⚛️

Gesture Handler 2.28.0 heading your way 🫰 ✅ Support for React Native 0.81 ✅ gestureHandlerRootHOC is now deprecated ✅ Submitting TextInput inside Pressable no longer blocks gestures

React Native Audio API 0.7.0 is here! 🎷 🎤 RecorderAdapterNode – integrate microphone input directly into audio graph 🚧 Custom Processor Node – write high-performance, custom audio effects directly in C++ 💦 AudioBufferQueueSourceNode – a new streaming source interface 🚀 Support for React Native 0.80

Anyone up for a quick Reanimated 4 live-coding with @kacperkapusciak.bsky.social? Join us tomorrow at 5 PM CEST! www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Vm...

Something just happened in your device preview and you missed it? 👀 Radon IDE’s Replays automatically capture the last few seconds of what was happening. 🔁 Review recent interactions 🎬 Scrub frame by frame 💾 Save the replay as a file

React Native Reanimated 4 is now stable and ready for production 🐎 Featuring CSS Animations & Transitions, multithreading with React Native Worklets and more. youtu.be/Wr2fOM_xD2I

We’ve just released React Native Gesture Handler 2.27.2 with some key improvements: ✅ onPress now correctly fires on Pressable after rerender ✅ No more duplicate onTouches* callbacks in multiple GestureDetectors ✅ Fixed Android crash related to internal .reversed handling Check it out 👇

Introducing Private Mind! 🚀 Our new OS app, built with React Native ExecuTorch, lets you run LLMs locally on your device. 🔹 Explore and swap pre-exported models 🔹 Benchmark performance, speed & memory 🔹 Customize system prompts 🔹 100% offline, private & free Available on App Store and Google Play

Announcing React Native Screens Overhaul ✨ ↳ Native Bottom Tabs on iOS and Android ↳ iOS 26 ↳ Support for the New & Legacy Architecture ↳ More native primitives coming in the future Currently in Alpha 🚀

Radon IDE 1.9 is here! 🧪 🌎 Radon Connect: Debug physical devices and external simulators 🏎️ Quickly switch between different project configurations 🎥 Emulate camera output on Android Full release notes 👉 github.com/software-man...

If you want to build a React Native photo gallery that feels just like Apple or Google Photos, we’ve got something cool for you – our new YT series! Check out episode #1 to learn how to build a sleek & snappy image list in React Native and stay tuned for next episodes! 📱📸

We did it! You can finally use third-party libraries in worklets - with `react-native-worklets`. Jump in the thread to learn more 👇

TypeGPU 0.6.0 heading your way! 🚀 🔁 Shader logic re-use – share logic across shaders without resorting to string concat 🧩 Dependency injection – parametrize shaders at compile time with slots 🔍 Auto-generated arg + return types in typed functions – inferred from your schema … And more! 👇

Introducing react-native-wallet, built in collaboration with Expensify! 🚀 💳 A better way to add payment cards to Apple & Google Wallet 🔁 Truly cross-platform support for iOS & Android ⚡ Lightweight, dev-friendly, and easy to integrate 🔐 Secure, compliant, and production-ready in-app provisioning

If you need to show exactly what and where you tapped, our IDE for React Native can record your screen with touch points. 🚀 iOS Simulator can’t do this – Radon can. 😎

Interactive auctions, real-time collabs, zero-delay sports… if you're building apps like these, it’s your sign to dive deeper into WebRTC. 👀 Check our article and learn more about live streaming apps, setups, and tools that can do the heavy lifting for you! 🎥 blog.swmansion.com/building-int...

Introducing React Native RAG! 🚀 🔒 Private: Data stays on-device 📲 Offline: Works anywhere, no cloud needed 🔌 Modular: Integrate external LLMs or your own knowledge base 🔧 Extensible: Seamless with React Native ExecuTorch blog.swmansion.com/introducing-...

With Radon IDE, you can access dynamic routes by typing the exact pathname in the URL bar. ✨ The tool integrates with your deep-linked React Native/Expo app, making it easy to: ✅ navigate your app’s structure ✅ keep track of navigation state ✅ remember the routes you’ve visited

React Native Gesture Handler 2.27.0 is here! 😎 👉 Improved Pressable to handle various edge-cases 👉 Deprecated ForceTouch gesture 👉 Many bug fixes for smoother interactions

Radon IDE 1.8 is out! 🔄 Run multiple devices in the background – one of your most requested features 🧠 Added support for Module Context Protocol in Radon AI ⚛️ Added support for React Native 0.80 🐞 Tons of bug fixes for a smoother, more stable DX

Debugging React Native apps is hard. But there are tools that make it easier. ✨ Check our blog for a deep dive and a comparison of RN DevTools, native platform tools, and more. 👀👇 blog.swmansion.com/best-react-n...

Struggling with deeply nested views? 🤯 With Radon IDE, you can point-and-click any element in the device preview to open your file at the exact line where this element is defined. Need to see the bigger picture? Right-click on the element to reveal the full hierarchy of its parent components. 🧩

Implement real-time gesture recognition directly in your browser for cool visual effects during video calls. 🪄 Check our article for a deep dive into Web Workers, WASM, React & some clever tricks to make gestures trigger on-screen animations. 🧠💻

The truth is… you don’t always need react-native-svg. 💥 Sometimes there’s just a better way to get the job done. 👀 www.youtube.com/shorts/IiSdp...

WebRTC supports real-time video, but choosing between P2P, SFU, and MCU can be tricky. 🤔 Check out our short guide to find out which setup is right for your needs – and save yourself a few headaches down the line. 💆‍♂️ blog.swmansion.com/webrtc-p2p-s...

The second day of App.js Conf is about to start! 🕐 Who’s joining us today? 🙋

It’s tiiiiiiiime ✨ App.js Conf 2025 is starting in less than 10 minutes – 2 full days packed with great talks, announcements, and interviews coming our way! If you aren’t in Kraków this year, join our livestream on Youtube. 😎