React Native: Android Scroll Fixes, iOS Input Repairs, and Tooling Cleanup
Android mounting crashes and scroll performance dominate the activity, alongside iOS fixes for Japanese and Chinese input. Tooling changes trim bundle output and ease Swift Package Manager rollback.
Duration: PT2M34S
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This episode is a short developer briefing from React Native.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: React Native
- Published: 2026-11-03T14:03:50Z
- Audio duration: PT2M34S
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Good morning, it's November 3rd, 2026.
Our lead story: this was a stability release in practice, with Android scrolling and mounting getting faster and less crash-prone, while iOS text input gets critical fixes for international keyboards.
First, Android reliability and performance. A cluster of changes targets Fabric mounting and scrolling overhead. One merged fix, PR 59099, disconnects animated props before attaching a replacement native view, preventing the crash quote "already attached to a view" on Android. Related open work would soften other…
Second, iOS text correctness, especially for CJK input. PR 59718 fixes dropped keys and broken composition in Japanese and third-party keyboards like Simeji by ignoring an internal event emitter attribute when comparing input text — that attribute made identical text look different and triggered a rewrite…
Finally, developer experience cleanup. PR 59775 removes legacy JSX source plugins from the Babel preset, eliminating absolute paths from dev bundles and enabling shared transform caches. WebSocket debugging in DevTools goes stable in PR 59683, after a fix for framework-initiated sockets in PR 59682. And PR 59368…
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