News

Toward Hermes being the Default
Great update from the RN team on the history of Hermes and where they're at today towards making it default on all RN apps
Expo SDK 43
Tons of news and articles from the Expo team in this issue - starting with the release of SDK 43! Biggest news here is experimental support for Hermes on iOS!
Drastically Faster Bundling in React Native
The Expo team has pulled off a big win here - recording ~2x faster for initial bundling and ~18% smaller production bundles
Libraries & Tools
Top 7 myths about Expo in 2021
Great article here that attempts to debug some myths about Expo in 2021 that some people may still (incorrectly) believe
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Tutorials

Authentication and Onboarding Flow in React Native: A Step-by-Step Guide
Authentication and onboarding can be tricky to wrap your head around sometimes - in this great writeup, the author attempts to ease that pain. Great stuff!
How we reduced NewBrands App Size by over 70%
The team that builds the HelloFresh app was able to shrink their app size by over 70% - definitely something worth sharing and we're glad they did
React Native: 3 ways to use Dev Settings API
Learn how to tap into the Dev Settings API to enable you to work faster
Open Source
shirakaba/react-native-native-runtime: The Objective-C runtime exposed directly to React Native via JSI (Java runtime may follow)!
mateuschaves/liquid-swipe: :iphone: :alembic: Liquid swipe effect in React Native
a7med-mahmoud/react-native-ml-kit: React Native On-Device Machine Learning w/ Google ML Kit
a7med-mahmoud/react-native-prevent-screenshots: Prevent Screenshots in your React Native app when needed. 🦄
abhiram2600/keyboard-aware-view: keyboard-aware-view is a react-native package that handles the view position based on input position and keyboard so that the text input doesn't get hidden behind the keyboard.
WrathChaos/react-native-bouncy-checkbox-group: Fully customizable bouncy checkbox group for React Native
WrathChaos/react-native-rounded-checkbox-group: Fully customizable react native checkbox group for React Native
fatemehmarzoughi/AudioVideo: Implemented Audio and Video Player in React Native
Saurabh-kayasth/rn-webrtc: WebRTC for React-Native. Allows camera to zoom on the fly while streaming and change max bitrate.
dirkpostma/react-native-cache-pods: Example how to reduce React Native iOS build times drastically
alielmajdaoui/react-native-gtoast: A React Native global toast that can be called from anywhere within your project.
mroads/react-native-fontext: 📲💬 react-native-fontext is a lightweight library to integrate fonts in your React Native application that works seamlessly in android and iOS devices.
pettiboy/react-native-ui-buttons: Functional, simple and customizable UI buttons for react native. Also contains loading functionality and automatically changes color for dual tone buttons. TypeScript support.
cuongtranduc/react-native-detect-press-outside: A wrapper view help to detect when user press outside a child component by passing a ref to this component as a prop
HugoDuret/ExportSMS: React-native app (Android and iOS) to view SMS stored on the phone, and easily export them to standard data exchange formats.
Latest Jobs
Looking for medior / senior React Native developer
Hello developers,
we are helping one of our clients with their app for couples. The app is currently running in the US with 60k registered users. It allows functionality such as booking dinner tables, tickets to events, suggestions for free time activities etc.
We are hoping to engage someone Full-time, 100% remote with CET hours overlap.
The team has high expertise in software development so the cooperation should be smooth. The project tools are Jira, Zoom, Slack. The candidate will be responsible for the Android part mainly and can suggest best development practices.
20Eur - 30Eur / h
Please no agencies.
For more info please contact me [email protected]
Videos

React Native EU 2021
The folks at Callstack have finally dropped all? most? a lot of videos from React Native EU 2021 for you to enjoy at your leisure