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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 08/01/2026

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

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State of React Native 2025

Participate in the State of React Native survey to share your insights.

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 11/12/2025

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

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 05/12/2025

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...

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 03/12/2025

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

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 02/12/2025

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/

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 14/10/2025

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

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 14/10/2025

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

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 09/10/2025

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

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 09/10/2025

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

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 08/10/2025

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...

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Welcoming the Next Generation of Hermes

React Native 0.82 adds an experimental option to use Hermes V1. Learn what it is, how it differs from Static Hermes, and how to enable…

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 08/10/2025

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! ✨

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 06/10/2025

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...

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WebRTC vs HLS — Which One Is Better for Your Streaming Project?

Learn when to use WebRTC or HLS for streaming. Compare latency, scalability, cost, and effort to make the right choice for your project.

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 03/10/2025

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...

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 30/09/2025

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!

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 25/09/2025

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-...

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The Best AI Agent Frameworks

From simple setups to advanced workflows, explore top AI agent frameworks for building autonomous LLM-based systems.

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 25/09/2025

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 😎

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 23/09/2025

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

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 18/09/2025

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! 🚀

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 16/09/2025

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. 🤓

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 11/09/2025

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. ✨

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 08/09/2025

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

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 03/09/2025

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

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 28/08/2025

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

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 21/08/2025

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 ⚛️

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 08/08/2025

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

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 07/08/2025

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

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 24/07/2025

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

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 23/07/2025

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

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Introducing React Native Reanimated 4

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 22/07/2025

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 👇

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 21/07/2025

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

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 17/07/2025

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 🚀

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 16/07/2025

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...

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 15/07/2025

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! 📱📸

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Building Apple & Google Photos Clone in React Native | SWM React Native Labs

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T.J. Żelawski @tjzel.dev · 15/07/2025

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

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 11/07/2025

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! 👇

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 10/07/2025

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

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React Native Wallet | The Cross-Platform Way to Add Cards to Apple & Google Wallet

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 09/07/2025

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. 😎

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 08/07/2025

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...

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Building Interactive Streaming Apps: WebRTC, WHIP & WHEP Explained

Streaming platforms often use HAS, but it may not be enough for truly low-latency streaming. This is where WebRTC comes in.

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 07/07/2025

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-...

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Introducing React Native RAG

We’re excited to introduce React Native RAG. A new library designed to enhance the LLMs capabilities with on-device RAG.

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 03/07/2025

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

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 02/07/2025

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

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 19/06/2025

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

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 17/06/2025

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...

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Best React Native Debugging Tools in 2025

Explore the best React Native debugging tools in 2025, including DevTools, Radon IDE, Reactotron, and native platform tools.

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 11/06/2025

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. 🧩

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 10/06/2025

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. 🧠💻

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 04/06/2025

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...

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You Might Not Need react-native-svg #reactnative

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 03/06/2025

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...

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WebRTC: P2P, SFU, MCU and All You Need to Know About Them

Want to add live video to your app? Here’s a quick guide to P2P, SFU, and MCU to help you pick the right setup for your project.

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 30/05/2025

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

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 29/05/2025

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. 😎

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