React Native: Critical iOS Focus Fix and API Cleanup
React Native received a critical fix for iOS TextInput focus issues affecting apps since version 0.83, plus significant C++ API cleanup and Performance API crash resolution.
Duration: PT1M52S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from React Native.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: React Native
- Published: 2026-04-09T00:00:00Z
- Audio duration: PT1M52S
Transcript excerpt
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Good morning. This is your React Native developer briefing for April 9th, 2026.
The main story today is a critical iOS fix from Hakan Akın addressing a regression that's been affecting React Native apps since version 0.83. The issue caused TextInput components to lose focus on mount and keyboards to unexpectedly reopen when interacting with native UI elements like menus or toolbar buttons. The…
Peter Abbondanzo resolved a crash in the Performance API by adding a missing const qualifier to the PerformanceEntrySorter comparator, fixing undefined behavior that was causing SIGSEGV crashes on Android when sorting performance entries.
Pieter De Baets improved thread safety by migrating BlobModule to TurboModuleWithJSIBindings, eliminating unsafe raw pointer access to JSI Runtime from Java.
Several commits from Dawid Małecki cleaned up the C++ public API snapshots by excluding deprecated symbols, DO_NOT_USE markers, and internal categories, plus adding regex support for better symbol matching in the parser configuration.
Emily Brown migrated SafeAreaView tests from Jest to Fantom as part of ongoing testing infrastructure improvements.
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