Introducing Expo App Integrity 🛡️

Easily verify your app is authentic and running on a trusted device using Google Play Integrity + Apple App Attest.

Protect your backend APIs from unauthorized clients.

It's available today in alpha - give it a try and share feedback: expo.dev/blog/expo-ap...

TikTok open-sourced Lynx, a serious alternative to React Native.

Callstack announced a new React Native Framework.

Vercel is moving into mobile and competes with Expo.

What a week 🤯
youtu.be/aqgQatFPNSw

We're excited to announce react-native-executorch v0.3.0 packed with powerful AI features 🎉

What's New:
💬Speech to Text transcription using Whisper and Moonshine
📙OCR for extracting text from images
🚀 MPS Support
⚡️ Hookless API
🧠 LLM Message History
⬇️ Background Model Downloads
📊 Benchmarks

We’re facing an accelerated shift towards universal apps 🚀
👉 thanks to @expo.dev Router, writing universal apps gets easier
👉 some web development trends (e.g., the growing popularity of NativeWind) are now present in mobile
👉 more & more libraries are built with universal development in mind 👀

The long-awaited React Native ExecuTorch AI model benchmarks are here! 🎉

What’s inside?
⚡Inference times
💾Memory usage
📦Model sizes

Check out the full details in our documentation 👇
docs.swmansion.com/react-native...

Building a mobile app? Animations are a must.

@mironcatalin.bsky.social explains why in the latest episode of React Native Radio podcast.

Listen to the full episode today 👇
www.reactnativeradio.com/episodes/rnr...

the world if shopify's FlashList component for react native supported the `gap` style prop:

🖤❤️ RNR 318 ❤️🖤

We’re kicking off 2025 with an exciting deep dive into maintaining open-source libraries in React Native!

@kacperkapusciak.bsky.social from @swmansion.com joins hosts @jamon.dev & @mazenchami.dev for the first episode of the new year!

reactnativeradio.com/episodes/rnr...

Casual reminder to take the State of React Native survey ✌️

It's awesome. We all love the results. Answer it!

stateofreactnative.com/

💥 Introducing Demos

An ongoing collection of React Native animations crafted with Reanimated, Gesture Handler, and Skia.

→ demos.reactiive.io

The State of React Native 2024 is now open! 🚨🚨🚨
➡️ stateofreactnative.com

We've been running this survey for 3 years & it's become an invaluable resource for learning about React Native's best features and biggest pain points.
Share your thoughts and help us shape the whole RN ecosystem!

Radon IDE 1.0 is live! Turn VSCode and Cursor into a fully-fledged IDE for React Native and Expo:
✅ Build & run RN and Expo apps in integrated panel w/o extra configuration
✅ Jump to code from inspector, view hierarchy or log console
✅ Use debugger easily in your code
www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Un...

Hey React Native folks! 👋

To make things more comfortable for you here, I put together a starter pack and a feed — check them out and let me know what you think!

Starter pack: bsky.app/starter-pack...
Feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...
#ReactNative

👋 I’m a React Native engineer here to connect with others in the space. Looking to learn, share ideas, and talk shop about app development & all things React Native. Whether you’re deep into UI/UX, optimizing components, or just starting out, I’d love to connect and see what everyone’s building.

Decided to ditch X and try blue sky. Happy to be here! 😎