Our web dev team went deep with Claude or the last month. In the process, we learned a few things. @juwan.dev shared insights with the company yesterday at All Hands and then wrote up a blog to share our learnings with you. What works? What doesn't? It's all in here: expo.dev/blog/what-ou...

🤑 Learn how bitglow modernized DEPOT's React Native app with Expo Prebuild, cutting upgrade time by 80% & boosting performance scores from 36 to 90. The blog from @bonesyblue.bsky.social is a blueprint for speeding up an RN e-comm app and protecting rev with OTA updates. expo.dev/blog/how-to-...

💅 Thomino doesn't waste a second. He gets right into the code. Flexible headers, animated tab bars, onboarding flows, Theme toggles and more... Make your app feel more premium with these reusable components: expo.dev/blog/buildin...

Expo StatusBar is a crucial library for Expo devs. It provides the same interface as the React Native StatusBar API, but with slightly different defaults to work great in Expo environments. Great video here from Kadi Kraman about how to get the most out of it.

🖤❤️ RNR 352 ❤️🖤 This week: @expo.dev Launch! 🚀 Our hosts @mazenchami.dev and @robinheinze.dev welcome back @cedric.dev to break down how Expo's new tool is making it easier than ever to launch to the App Store! Listen now 👇 infinite.red/react-native...

The best B2C apps grow through sharing. But sharing doesn't happen by accident. You have to build the mechanism and the motivation. There are examples and best practices in our blog post today. Full guide: expo.dev/blog/how-to-...

Sanas built a real-time translation video calling app with Expo. 3 months from prototype to production. 25+ languages. Under 2 second latency. ♦ Custom native modules for LLM inference ♦ Weekly releases via EAS Update expo.dev/blog/how-sanas-built-an-instant-language-translation-app-with-expo

🔴 Great livestream from Sonny Sangha for anyone who wants to see SDK 55 in action. He builds an AI Dating Mobile App from scratch on stream using all the bells & whistles you'd hope to see - Liquid Glass, smooth haptics, file based routing, reanimated. Check it out: www.youtube.com/live/y-Vvj95...

💡 Tons us useful advice for indie devs in today's guest blog post. Here are a couple pearls of wisdom that stood out: ⬩ Start with Expo's Services on day one. ⬩ Write tests: skipping them caused regressions later ⬩ Polish matters: haptics took ~1 hour expo.dev/blog/buildin...

Just read the @Expo.dev SDK 55 Beta changelog - wow 😮 Many big improvements. But also so many tiny additions like: - New Expo Modules for contacts/media-library/calendar - SQLite inspector powered by Drizzle - New Widgets and Share modules What's your favorite update?

We shipped compiler caching for EAS builds today 🎉 30% faster builds (both platforms), free for everyone, literally just set one env var. ccache does the heavy lifting on native compilation. SDK 53+ for Android, 54+ for iOS expo.dev/changelog/co...

React Weekly Issue #4 is LIVE! ⚛️ We’re seeing a massive shift toward platform-native performance and incremental speed. 🧵 The highlights: 🚀 @expo.dev SDK 55 Beta 📱 @reactnavigation.bsky.social 8.0 Alpha 🖥️ @reactnative.dev Windows v0.81 💨 The secret to Turbopack’s speed

🌟 Meet our next speaker - @kadi.bsky.social, a Software Dev at @expo.dev. Kadi builds tools and experiences to help devs get the best out of React Native apps. She’s also an enthusiastic teacher, creating courses for Frontend Masters & Egghead.

Expo SDK 55 beta is out now 🧪 (RN 0.83.1 + React 19.2) ♢ Legacy Architecture removed ♢ New default template (Native Tabs + /src/app) ♢ Hermes v1 opt-in ♢ Hermes bytecode diffing for smaller OTA updates ♢ More native Router features + better “Expo in native apps” support expo.dev/changelog/sd...

🏄‍♀️ New workflow for our OTA Updates: Channel Surfing Override the channel at runtime, then check, fetch, and reload so the user lands directly on the selected update. Great for fast review without rolling changes out to everyone. ✍️ @entiendonull.bsky.social expo.dev/blog/channel...

⏳ If your team is still waiting on full builds for every pull request, you are moving too slow. https://expo.dev/solutions/iteration-speed

With SDK 55 coming soon (beta on Monday) it’s a good time to install our skills. We have an “upgrade” skill that will expedite your adoption of the new SDK. All skills are here: github.com/expo/skills

Callie (Most Creative App, 2025 Expo App Awards) is a masterclass in making AI feel warm. The app leverages Expo + Reanimated + Skia shaders, including a page-curl “letter” UI for AI journaling. Calm motion + soft visuals + zero harshness = 👨‍🍳💋 expo.dev/blog/making-...

🆕 New writeup on building offline-first, media-heavy React Native apps with Expo: expo-location, expo-audio, expo-file-system, SQLite, and a content-validation layer for iOS updates. If you care about resilient mobile architecture, this blog is a good resource. expo.dev/blog/the-off...

If you enjoy reading about build tools and browser internals, there's a post on the Expo blog for you. @sanketsahu.bsky.social figured out how to run a dev server entirely in the browser. And he explains how in this nerd-sniping deep dive: expo.dev/blog/how-to-...

🤔 For any React devs that were skeptical about React Native check out this video about what's ~new in React Native and why they shouldn't be skeptical anymore. https://youtu.be/57I6dXgf_eQ?si=EHabUtrk9-hl_FfB

Built a mention selector with @expo.dev Liquid Glass + Reanimated

"Can I run a React Native dev server entirely in the browser?" Apparently...yes 🤯 Or at least Sanket Sahu can! He built RapidNative to do exactly that Deep dive on the Expo blog: expo.dev/blog/how-to-...

Code review has quietly become a new bottleneck. AI helps devs ship more code which means more PRs, more risk, and less time to review carefully. So how about some AI Code Review to help with all the AI generated code? That's exactly what @coderabbitai.bsky.social built. expo.dev/blog/ai-powe...

TinyBase is a fantastic project that— along with @expo.dev—enabled me to build @isaeye.uk with local-first capability on web, iOS + Android! Support open source and the humans behind it :)

PRs as previews > PRs as code review. With Expo's CICD Workflows + OTA Updates, each pull request becomes something QA can run immediately inside a dev build (QR code included). Reuse builds when compatible. Rebuild only when native changes force it. expo.dev/blog/feature...

Maestro Cloud + Expo's CICD Workflows is here. Build with Expo, test the same build on Maestro Cloud, all in one workflow file. Setup is refreshingly painless. expo.dev/blog/expo-no...

🍎 Apparently it's iOS Widget day today at Expo. We shipped a video earlier and now we have a tutorial blog post about how to implement iOS Widgets in Expo apps. Take a look and let us know if you run into any problems: https://expo.dev/blog/how-to-implement-ios-widgets-in-expo-apps

🆕 @codewithbeto.dev just shipped a new tutorial video. This one is about how to implement iOS Widgets in your Expo apps. Check it out: youtu.be/UH4ejdz3fko

🚢 With our OTA Update service the @hipcamp.bsky.social team ships to mobile the same way they ship to web. Full case study: expo.dev/blog/how-exp...

Made this image-paste-input with @expo.dev and expo-module. Shoutout Fernando Rojo and @v0.dev for the inspo.

🚆 If the @mta.info app stops working, it turns into mayhem on the NYC subway. We're not talking “people complaining on Twitter” mayhem - we mean absolute chaos. There is a case study below about how their small team manages Expo apps with 350k+ daily active users: expo.dev/blog/how-mta...

⚡ Teams work better together when feedback happens in seconds. The fastest, most efficient teams are using over-the-air PR Previews to expedite the QA process, which also creates great app iteration momentum. expo.dev/solutions/it...

4 million users worldwide 4.9 stars with 111,000 ratings on iOS 4.8 stars with 63,000 ratings on Android This is the kind of app you want to learn from. Check out the new guest post from the Lingvano team about their award winning app: expo.dev/blog/scaling...

🎄 Day 1 of the React Native Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door: 5 Essential Features of Expo Router 🚀 If you’re building with @Expo.dev in 2025, these routing features will make every app a joy to work with 😍 Start here 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/20...

Mood slider animation built with @expo.dev + reanimated Inspiration MDStudioHQ (𝕏 user)

I built a mobile farming game in 6 days 🌱 with AI + @Expo.dev. 🎥 Watch the full breakdown + my AI Engineering Workflow

🫧 Excellent new blog post from @arunabhverma.com about how to add the Apple Maps style liquid glass sheet to your Expo apps. He shares three different options and context for when to choose each approach: expo.dev/blog/how-to-...

📰 React Native Newsletter Issue 190 📰 A new issue of RNN is hot off the presses! Featured in this edition: ✅ @expo.dev App Awards ✅The @react.dev Foundation ✅ React 19.2 ✅ Lots of other great news!! Read the latest newsletter over on our website 👇 mailchi.mp/infinite/rea...

🚀 Tiny Harvest – Test Version is LIVE! 🌾✨ tinyharvest.app/ Grow crops, craft goods, expand your farm, complete orders - and help shape the future of the game 💚 Download now (iOS & Android) - Built with React Native and @Expo.dev 👇

Stop building everything twice. That's @gunnarthedev.bsky.social's advice in this new blog about how he migrated Noona from a brownfield RN + Nextjs stack to a universal Expo app. expo.dev/blog/from-a-...

🏅 From 1,200+ apps to 15 finalists 😅 🫠 The testing, debating, and re-debating is over. These apps are the 15 finalists for the 2025 𝝠 Expo App Awards. We will announce the winners on a livestream tomorrow!!! youtube.com/live/KnZ3LWk...

🆕 This PR from @nishan.dev adds CSS grid support to react native 🙌 It's not possible to overstate how massive this is for all of us. Future generations will celebrate Nishan Bende Day 🐐 github.com/facebook/yog...

iOS builds on @expo.dev are blazing fast 😍🚀⚡️

🆕 @kadi.bsky.social made a video about Expo StatusBar. Let us know what you think of the vid (if you like it we'll make more of them for other libraries) and check out the StatusBar docs for more detail! https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/status-bar/

We just published a new guide on how to integrate EAS Workflows with @github.com Actions. You can use Workflows to simplify signing, accelerate builds, & run mobile specific jobs while keeping your CI in place. Great for teams who want speed without a full migration. expo.dev/blog/how-to-...

✌️ Expo is where @react.dev developers go native. expo.dev/solutions/ex...

💸 Phantom is one of the world’s most popular crypto wallets. It's a small team. A horizontal structure. And a stack powered by Expo. They ship weekly and empower every engineer to contribute to mobile. Read how: expo.dev/blog/how-pha... They're also nominated for an Expo App Award! 🏆

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🙌 The question we asked these apps was to show us something we didn't think could be done on a phone. These 6 apps each demonstrated something special: ♢ Sanas ♢ Cosmy ♢ v0 ♢ Couple Joy ♢ Starlink ♢ @bsky.app Announcing the winners on Thursday: https://youtube.com/live/KnZ3LWkXzSk?feature=share