News

React Native 0.64 - Hermes on iOS and React 17
Quick intro here to the newest iteration of React Native - version 0.64! As we previewed in the last issue, this release features Hermes on iOS, as well as a few other niceties. Check it out!
Expo SDK 40 is now available
The Expo team announces the release of 2020's final SDK - version 40. This release is based on React Native 0.63 and includes too many updates to list here - be sure to check out this official announcement.
React Native at Wix
The Wix team began their React Native journey around 5 years ago and have grown their engineering efforts from 4 to 100+ working on it! This introductory article lays the groundwork for what will become an 8-part series to follow along with. Part 1 - The Architecture was also released.

The Journey of React-Native @ Flipkart
The largest e-commerce company in India, Flipkart, receives over 100M app downloads every week. If you want to learn more about scaling a React Native app to numbers like that - be sure to check this out.
Sponsored Link

Webinar: Source Code Protection in Hybrid Mobile Apps from Jscrambler and Verimatrix
If you are developing hybrid mobile apps with frameworks like React Native or Ionic, your client-side JavaScript might be exposed. Every piece of code, including code secrets, proprietary algorithms, and functions that handle sensitive data, can be retrieved and tampered with, leading to serious attacks. How can you protect your code?
Join this free webinar on Wednesday, December 16th, 2020 | 6 pm GMT / 1 pm EST / 10 am PST, for an overview of this security threat and a demo of an attack on an unprotected mobile app.
Tutorials

Optimizing React Native
Over the past eight months, Coinbase has been rewriting its Android app from scratch with React Native. Read about some of the performance challenges they encountered and overcame along the way.
Native Modules documentation gets a big overhaul
Looking to learn more about Native Modules? The official docs for them just received a big update that are worth your time.
React Native App with HealthKit & Swift
In this short and sweet tutorial - the team at Equinox kick off a series on integrating Healthkit with React Native. Be sure to look for the rest of this series in the future.
TikTok Animation in React Native
I always love seeing the amazing tricks that devs come up with to do neat animations like this one in React Native.
How to create a custom scrollbar with React Native Animated API
The always talented Aman returns with a fun tutorial on creating custom scrollbars.
Open Source
PedroBern/react-native-collapsible-tab-view: A cross-platform Collapsible Tab View component for React Native
Sifir-io/react-native-tor: Tor Daemon and Socks5 client for React Native iOS and Android projects!
CaioQuirinoMedeiros/react-native-currency-input: A simple currency input component for both iOS and Android
cawfree/react-native-pretty-payment: ⚛️ 🤑 Super pretty payment inputs for React Native.
sparkfabrik/sparkfabrik-react-native-idfa-aaid: React Native module for getting IDFA (iOS) or AAID (Android)
investingwolf/react-native-svg-path-gradient: A utility for creating gradient paths with react-native-svg
breeffy/react-native-bottom-sheet: Blazingly performant interactive bottom sheet with snap points support powered by Reanimated 2 :star2: :tada:
AwrminKhodaei/react-native-horizontal-datepicker: Gregorian and Jalali customizable date picker as a horizontal timeline. inspired by @sobimor
RafaelGoulartB/duolingo-drag-and-drop: 🐦 Duolingo Drag-and-drop feature made with React Native.
caoyongfeng0214/rn-overlay: Overlay component for React Native. Overlay (fixed View); Toast (message); Picker (select); DateTime; Dialog;
mrousavy/react-native-screen-corner-radius: 📱 A React Native library to get the Device's Screen's corner radius
lucassaid/react-native-cool-speedometer: Cool speedometer for React Native
mrousavy/react-native-tracking-transparency: 🕵️ A React Native Library for interacting with the tracking API from iOS 14.
Videos

Flappy Bird in React Native
Great content here - watch Ania live code her way through a beginner's guide to building a simple Flappy Bird clone.