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Thank you Jamie! Your recent work on react-native-macos stuff is inspiring! 😍 One of the first things I'm going to do as a community contributor is to finally add a CI workflow that builds the test app on macOS 😂

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I'm glad to be the top 2 contributor in expo/expo repo at the end of this chapter. The fight for the first place was unequal though. @notbrent.dev pushes a lot of commits directly to the main branch and mostly just in the docs 🤣

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Making Expo Modules better and better, improving support for SwiftUI and macOS are still my missions that bring me joy 🫡 It's just going to slow down a bit, depending on my time and resources 💸 If you appreciate my work and want to help me with the latter, my GitHub Sponsors profile is open.

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For the next few months I would like to focus more on myself and recharge batteries 🪫 I'll be doing open source contributions to @expo.dev occasionally, as a hobby and simply because I got addicted 🤣 but I won't be part of the core team anymore.

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Tomasz Sapeta 𝝠 @tsapeta.dev · 31/12/2024

New year, new me. With the arrival of 2025, I'm no longer an employee of @swmansion.com. It's been fun and pleasure to be there for almost 10 years, but I need to take a break from putting all my heart and soul into the full-time job ⌛️

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Do yourself a favor and do some sports in 2025! Cheers! 🍻

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Tomasz Sapeta 𝝠 @tsapeta.dev · 26/12/2024

At least for this year 😂

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Tomasz Sapeta 𝝠 @tsapeta.dev · 22/12/2024

I'm in Valencia 🇪🇸 for the next two weeks 🎄 Do I know someone here? Any recommendations?

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Tomasz Sapeta 𝝠 @tsapeta.dev · 22/12/2024

Has anyone seen this button in any iOS app? It's a SwiftUI-only view called `ContactAccessButton` introduced in iOS 18 (developer.apple.com/documentatio...). I wonder how devs are using it, it has so many requirements and seems to be pretty flaky and unusable 😤

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Tomasz Sapeta 𝝠 @tsapeta.dev · 16/12/2024

Migration to the New Architecture makes the situation even worse. The readme now officially states that it's not supported, even though I think the interop layer should handle it well.

Tomasz Sapeta 𝝠 @tsapeta.dev · 16/12/2024

We've never tried to ship it actually. Initially it was made by a group of students at the uni, but we didn't have enough bandwidth to finish and maintain it. Making expo-image, expo-video and expo-audio were much more essential.

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Tomasz Sapeta 𝝠 @tsapeta.dev · 16/12/2024

It's unbelievable that after 6 years since Airbnb gave up on React Native, react-native-maps (they originally created it) still uses AIR prefix in the class names. It sounds like no one has taken full responsibility for this package since then. Why?

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Tomasz Sapeta 𝝠 @tsapeta.dev · 13/12/2024

Happy Friday the 13th 🐈‍⬛

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Tomasz Sapeta 𝝠 @tsapeta.dev · 09/12/2024

The Witcher 3, Ghost of Tsushima, Spider-Man 2. I'd also recommend to give Horizon another chance – which one you tried? I love Forbidden West, but you may not feel it if you haven't played Zero Dawn (it recently got remastered)

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Tomasz Sapeta 𝝠 @tsapeta.dev · 09/12/2024

Thanks for your recent contributions to macOS support! It's quite difficult to maintain so many modules on so many platforms at a good pace. I'm glad we have people like you in the community! 🥰

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 09/12/2024

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!

its a header image with the title "State of React Native 2024"

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Expo @expo.dev · 03/12/2024

🆕 We've introduced a new, simple, powerful way to play videos in apps. It's called expo-video. expo-video is replacing the now out-dated Video component of expo-av, and soon expo-audio will replace the Audio component of expo-av, making it fully deprecated. expo.dev/blog/expo-vi...

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expo-video: a simple, powerful way to play videos in apps

expo-video is the new way to play videos in Expo apps. It is replacing the now out-dated Video component of expo-av.

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Software Mansion @swmansion.com · 02/12/2024

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...

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Radon IDE Launch video

YouTube video by Software Mansion

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Tomasz Sapeta 𝝠 @tsapeta.dev · 02/12/2024

expo/expo repo has just reached 35k stars on GitHub! 🌟📈 Thanks to all stargazers who played a part in this! 🤩

Graph showing a history of stars given to expo/expo repository on GitHub.

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Tomasz Sapeta 𝝠 @tsapeta.dev · 29/11/2024

Thanks Jamie for this great contribution! And sorry it took so long 🙈

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Tomasz Sapeta 𝝠 @tsapeta.dev · 27/11/2024

Nice! I looked at the code on iOS, I think you should make those functions async and run them on the main queue as they use UIKit APIs

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Tomasz Sapeta 𝝠 @tsapeta.dev · 24/11/2024

ExoPlayer should be put into Google's graveyard

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Tomasz Sapeta 𝝠 @tsapeta.dev · 22/11/2024

Looks like it's Firefox Profiler with a profile imported from Android Studio

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Definitely something that must be fixed if that's still the case. I'd love to test it out once you upgrade Expo SDK to 52!

Unfortunately we can't do much with SVGs on iOS without calling into the private CoreSVG framework 😐

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There are already many APIs that aren't cross-platform and it's ok. In some cases you would be fine with having the mesh gradient as a background on iOS and just a solid color on Android. Even though you use a cross-platform framework, the app doesn't always look the same and doesn't have to.

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Brush: gradients and shaders | Jetpack Compose | Android Developers

I believe it's just a matter of time when mesh gradient becomes available in Jetpack Compose too, it already has other types of gradients: developer.android.com/develop/ui/c...

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It depends. If we really want to, mesh gradient can be implemented on Android using shaders, it's just a bit more work than with SwiftUI. We're also looking into how to support Jetpack Compose, which is quite similar to SwiftUI.

In general CSS properties in SVGs (except ones that can be element's attribute like `fill`) are not working very well. Web browsers support them, but native renderers usually apply them differently or just ignore them.

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SVGs is a tough topic. I wish there is just one standard and one good renderer that is used across all platforms and browsers. I had hopes that SVG Native spec would change something, but nothing is happening in the working group for a while.

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It's the only case when I can say that something works better on Android than on iOS 🤣 It's supported, but I know it's a bit buggy on iOS.

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The difference is that expo-image just treats them as native images, i.e. `UIImage` on iOS, `Picture` on Android. As far as I know react-native-svg draws each JSX component as a separate RN view.

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No no, expo-image on Android also renders them as a vector, on iOS it is rasterized only if you use `tintColor` prop. Rasterization would make it slower.

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It does and is way more performant for static SVGs. In theory you can also tint them with the `tintColor` prop, so they can be a bit dynamic 😉 However, some more complex SVGs might be rendered differently between platforms and even the webview on these platforms, but in most cases it works fine.

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Opening issues on GitHub is unlikely to increase your followers count

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React Native is just catching up 🙈 I think there are a lot more things happening in the mobile world than on web. Also these platforms are capable of much more => more things to implement 😅

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Yes, it does. However you may see some differences and some elements/attributes may just not work. Sadly, both iOS and Android render SVGs differently. It's not as good as in webview.

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Tomasz Sapeta 𝝠 @tsapeta.dev · 19/11/2024

Bringing MeshGradient from SwiftUI to React Native 🌈 Built with @expo.dev Modules and not yet announced feature in SDK 52 that allows to embed any SwiftUI view into RN app 📲 Implemented with the New Architecture in mind 🏛️ Demo built with @swmansion.com Reanimated and Gesture Handler 💜

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Totally forgot about it, I'm sorry! I'll take another look this week 🙂