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Expo @expo.dev · 27/08/2026

Turns out you did not "have to be there" for this one. @kadi.bsky.social's Chain React talk was recorded! Excellent introduction to a new service that measures the performance of your app on real user devices: youtu.be/G9RoD_QpJYQ?...

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How is your app actually doing in production — Kadi Kraman | Chain React 2026

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Expo @expo.dev · 25/08/2026

🥳 Observe is now generally available! React Native startup and per-screen performance from real devices, with every build and OTA update marked on the chart. Now you can see how your app actually feels to your users. Details in today's blog from @kadi.bsky.social: try.expo.dev/observe-ga-b...

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Introducing Observe: Performance monitoring for Expo apps, now generally available — Expo blog

Observe is generally available. Startup and per-screen performance for React Native, measured on real devices, tied to every build and update.

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We can build apps faster than ever. The bottleneck now is the last mile: getting through app review. I put together a cheat sheet of how long it actually takes to publish to the App Store and Google Play based on what I've seen. Does it match your experience?

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Come to Chain React! The ultimate stateside React Native conference 👌

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The danger in AI-assisted coding is confident blindness. The best way to help students, users and developers who building with AI is to convert more of their "unknown unknowns" to "knowns unknowns". Only once you know there's a problem can begin solving it

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Expo @expo.dev · 11/06/2026

iOS builds in SDK 56 are faster out of the box. Expo modules now ship as precompiled XCFrameworks, so they link instead of compiling from source on every build. No config, no migration steps. Full nerd sniping eng blog from @chrfalch.bsky.social right here: try.expo.dev/precompiled-...

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Faster iOS Builds with Precompiled XCFrameworks

Starting with SDK 56, Expo packages on iOS ship as prebuilt XCFrameworks, so clean iOS builds skip compiling 70+ packages from source.

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Expo @expo.dev · 29/05/2026

If you've ever felt uneasy for 24 hours after you shipped a new build - watch @kadi.bsky.social's talk. You'll feel better. We timestamped it for you: www.youtube.com/live/dvpeMlw... We opened the beta for our observability service today and we need feedback. Try it: try.expo.dev/observe-beta...

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React Summit @reactsummit.gitnation.org · 04/06/2026

📱 App development has changed dramatically — but where is it actually heading? @kadi.bsky.social traces the full evolution and what it means for React Native devs at React Summit!

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This was magical, I love the hat 💃

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Series B baby! Time to start cooking 🧑‍🍳

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Bundle size too big? Did you know you can compress all the images in your Expo project with a single command!

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Speaking at React Summit this June! 🚀 You can register through my badge and watch the livestream for free → gitnation.com/badges/react... See you June 12 & 16!

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Check out my badge & claim your free React Summit 2026 remote ticket!

Join 10k engineers worldwide at React Summit 2026 and meet 50 top speakers at June 11 - 15, 2026

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Reminder: the APK you build for testing is NOT the actual app size 🔹 Debug APK: 95MB 🔹 AAB: 68 MB 🔹 Actual download: 24MB Your users aren't downloading 95 MB: APKs bundle resources for every device config. AAB lets Google Play deliver only what the user's device actually needs

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Did you know! You can append .md to any @expo.dev blog or changelog post to get the content as markdown Psst! this will also work with accept headers

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React Summit @reactsummit.gitnation.org · 23/01/2026

🌟 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.

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

A fun graphQL hack I learned from this: you can change an Enum field to a String as a non-breaking change by deleting the Enum and replacing it with a Scalar of the same name!

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

So the Android release was submitted with this fix, but the iOS build was already in the middle of a review which takes ~2 days atm so I couldn't cancel without having to start from the back of the queue again. Thanks for confirming this worked for you! 🎉

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

It's actually this commit github.com/expo/react-c... . We changed the Pressable to use gesture events instead of onPress to fix a scrolling issue in iOS 24, so this works perfectly in iOS 24, but on Android and iOS 18, when you try to bookmark the talk it'll also navigate to the details page

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

If you're on iOS 18 - I've just published 1.1.1, could you try upgrading and seeing if it works now?

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Are you on iOS 18 or 26?

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Interesting! It does work for me and it shouldn't take a few taps. Which phone are you using? Do you feel the haptic feedback when you tap, or no?

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

React Conf app for 2025 is out now! And if you're curious to see know how it was built, check out the source code here: github.com/expo/react-c...

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

"I'm new to React Native / Expo Router - how should I structure my codebase?" It's a question that comes up quite a bit, and this is an attempt at providing some very concrete suggestions. Already using Router? I'd love to know if there's anything you'd do differently, and why 📝

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Check out our new homepage! We also have cool new landing pages to demonstrate how various builders - enterprise, ecom, startups, finserv, crypto, solo devs - benefit from building with Expo.

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Project Hail Mary was great! I am also on team Audiobook, I listen while gymming, travelling, doing chores etc. The only downside is sometimes when you don't really like the narrator's voice or way of speaking, there's nothing to do about it.

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

This is a lovely, honest build log of a web developer building a native app with Expo for the first time! Thank you so much for sharing. Your feedback throughout has been really useful in helping us make things smoother in the future 🕵️‍♀️

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Cassidy @cassidoo.co · 06/08/2025

I made an iOS app, AI-free, cloud-free, subscription-free, please smash that notify button (Product Hunt didn’t let me launch it today so I guess we’re launching tomorrow?) www.producthunt.com/products/duc...

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Ductts: Track how often you cry | Product Hunt

An app for tracking how often you cry.

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

New @expo.dev example: graphQL server and client with ✨automatic type generation✨! 🧘‍♀️ GraphQL Yoga - server 💜 URQL - client 🎉 gql.tada - type generation ☁️ EAS Hosting - for API & web deployments

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

New @expo.dev example! Here's how to upload images from your app to an AWS S3 bucket with Expo Router and EAS Hosting github.com/expo/example...

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Ausalt peale teist visiiti ma peaaegu ei oleks läinud tagasi ja mõtlesin lihtsalt mingi muu displei osta. Ja ma arvan et sain selle uue ainult selle pärast et ma kannatlikult üle kuu aja sellega jamasin

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Nii et viisin uuesti tagasi, olin seal poolteist tundi kuni nad katsetasid erinevate arvutitega ja otsustasid et jah on küll displei viga. Ja siis 3 nädalat ei kuulnud midagi kuni läksin lõpuks kohale sinna küsima. Öeldi et nad ei suutnud seda korda teha ja tellivad mulle kulleriga sama mudeli.

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Viisin tagasi, see kord öeldi et see on minu kaabli viga ja pidin £69 eest uue kaabli ostma. Siis 4 päeva töötas kuni ei töötanud jälle. Avastasin et kui arvuti on 100% siis on ekraan okei, aga kui on alla 80% (ja üritab ennast läbi displei laadida) siis hakkab siise ja välja lülitama

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Ma arvan jah et vedas, pikem lugu on nii et monitor ei ühendunund enam arvutiga (ekraan lülitas ennast sisse / välja pidevalt). Viisin Geeniuse Baari, nad tegid sisemise restore'i, ütlesid et korras, viisn koju - sama viga.

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Holy crap, I guess the whole "if you don't ask, you don't get" is real! Apple couldn't fix my 3-year-old out-of-warranty Studio Display so in the end they replaced it. For free! It feels like Christmas.

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Say hello to auth flows without redirects! 💜

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Joshua Yoes @joshuayoes.com · 06/06/2025

Know a React Native dev (~2 yrs experience) looking for a new job? A small but growing team at a mature startup in the pet health space is hiring — remote on EST, looking for someone who is excited to both teach & learn from teammates. If you think you are a good fit, send a DM.

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The react-native-keyboard-controller is by far the most complete and exceptional keyboard management library for React Native 👌 github.com/kirillzyusko...

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The State of Expo 📈 at AppJS Conf

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

The calm before the storm! AppJS 2025 pre-conference meetup ✨

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I'm not sure that's going to be possible. What we're doing here github.com/kadikraman/r... is we're changing the entry point based on whether we're viewing storybook or not so it's a completely different app. If using storybook - no router.

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I believe it's actually a bug related to Expo Go. If you do an actual dev build with `npx expo run:android` the status bar is fine. So the above is a workaround for now, but I've flagged it so eventually this will work in Expo Go without changes as well

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The whole purpose of expo/ui is to make native UI patterns easier to use. If the platform doesn't support x natively then shoehorning it in defeats the purpose of the library. In my opinion at least.

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Hi! It's tomorrow. I believe this StatusBar update will do the trick

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Ohh interesting. Thanks for the heads up, I do need to update those examples (tomorrow I hope?) so I'll see what's happening there with edge-to-edge 👀

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

React Native & Expo conf of the year coming up soon! 🔥

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Samuel @samuel.fm · 22/04/2025

huge shoutout to @zoontek.me - his work dragging the @reactnative.dev ecosystem kicking and screaming to support modern Android has been incredible. finally merged this PR that he kindly opened for us - a rare PR that deletes/simplifies a bunch of gnarly code and fixes a ton of bugs all at once 🎉

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Edge to edge support by zoontek · Pull Request #7497 · bluesky-social/social-app

Hi folks! 👋 This PR adds support for edge-to-edge (enforced on Android 15, when targetting SDK 35+). This will help to add consistency between iOS and Android, as they now will behaves in the same ...

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Kadi Kraman @kadi.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Building Expo apps is like... 1. make it work 2. make it pretty 3. make it ⚡️performant ⚡️ Some great tips on how to achieve that last part 👇

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