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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 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 · 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

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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 28/05/2025

We recently shipped version 0.4 of React Native ExecuTorch! 🚀 This release brings powerful new LLMs and computer vision features to the library, introducing new possibilities for on-device AI. Dive into what’s new, and get a sneak peek at what’s coming next. 👀

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 22/05/2025

Announcing React Native ExecuTorch v0.4.0! 🎉 🧠 More LLMs – Add diverse LLMs to your app 🔧 Tool calling capabilities – Let LLMs interact dynamically with APIs & tools 🔍 Text Embeddings – Convert text to vectors for semantic tasks 🖼️ Image Segmentation — Create masks for objects in images And more!

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 21/05/2025

With Radon IDE, routing gets simpler. ✨ You can navigate between routes using a familiar dropdown UI. Go back, jump home, or select any screen – just like in a browser. 🦘

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 20/05/2025

Local LLMs as personal assistants are coming! 🤖 ⚙️ Tool Calling – harness the power of LLMs in your applications 📅 From voice commands to actions on your device – all while staying offline! 🚀 Coming soon in React Native ExecuTorch v0.4.0 #AI #ReactNative #NLP #LLM #AIAgents

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 15/05/2025

📌 We’re hosting a pre-App.js Conf meetup! Join us on May 27 for a relaxed evening of great talks on what’s new in React Native, cross-platform conversational AI agents, localization-first development, and more! The event is free – link in the 🧵

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 14/05/2025

Why did Bilbo Baggins throw a party? 🤔 🔍 Semantic Search – powered by on-device text embeddings 🧠 Understand the meaning behind the words 🚀 Coming soon in React Native ExecuTorch v0.4.0 #AI #ReactNative #NLP #SemanticSearch #RAG

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 08/05/2025

Back in 2019, we had no idea what would come out of organizing our own React Native & Expo conference. ⚛️ In 3 weeks, we’re hosting the 5th App.js Conf. Since that first one, the crowd grew from 240 to 530, production leveled up with a concert-grade stage, and it became home for the RN community 💙

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 07/05/2025

Qwen 3 family is shipping with the upcoming 0.4.0 version of React Native ExecuTorch. 🎉 The 1.7B variant reaches 30 tokens per second on iPhone 16 Pro!

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

Last year's attendees said meeting the community and great presentations were the best parts of #appjsconf. We promise you, we'll deliver both this year as well! 🤞 🎤 Check out some of the speakers, and don't wait up too long – there are only 3 weeks left!

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 30/04/2025

Radon IDE enables no-setup debugging in VSCode. 🚀 Just open your project, set a breakpoint in your app, and pause execution. Any runtime errors? Radon IDE takes you straight where the error occurred. Plus, logs show up right in the editor, and console.log() links directly to your source code. ✨

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 23/04/2025

Ever wanted to create a React Native app where you can talk to a local LLM? 🧠💬 With react-native-executorch, you can! In version 0.3.0, we released Speech-to-Text models, and we're planning to add new exciting functionalities soon! 🚀

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 22/04/2025

Say hello to typegpu-confetti: buttery smooth, fully customizable, and rendered 100% on the GPU via TypeGPU + react-native-wgpu. 🎉

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 18/04/2025

⏰ Just 6 weeks left until App.js Conf 2025! If you're into React Native, check out the thread to see why it’s the event you really don’t want to miss 👇🏻

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 09/04/2025

Psst... still considering a workshop at App.js Conf 2025? There are only two (!) left 👇 🔗 Read more and grab your spot: appjs.co/tickets#Work...

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 07/04/2025

"Request failed." Alright, but what’s the cause? Missing headers? Wrong URL? Invalid body? 👀 With Radon IDE’s built-in network inspector, you can spot the issue fast and easily debug network requests.👇

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