React Native: List Scrolling Fixes and Foldable Readiness
Scrolling reliability leads the day with fixes for inverted lists and position maintenance, alongside internal header cleanup and early iPhone Duo support. The changes improve list UX, reduce public API surface, and fix image defaults on Android.
Duration: PT2M35S
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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: 2026-10-07T13:07:01Z
- Audio duration: PT2M35S
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Good morning, it's October 7th, 2026.
Our lead story: scrolling lists got a reliability pass. Three related fixes address cases where content jumps or moves the wrong way, which directly affects chat, feeds, and long lists.
First, commit 30e2d93 fixes reversed mouse wheel, trackpad and joystick scrolling in inverted lists on Android. Because an inverted list flips its scroll view, touch input was mapped correctly but scroll-axis input was not, so wheel scrolling went backwards. The fix checks the actual transform and flips the axis and…
Second theme: a continued tightening of native headers. Four commits lower implementation headers from public to private or frameworks-only, covering utilities, image components, animation backend, and the component registry. Pull request 58888 removes the buffered call invoker flag now that it is fully rolled out,…
Finally, early foldable readiness and small corrections. Commit ba89b39 moves RNTester on iOS to a native tab bar controller to respect safe areas on iPhone Duo, with follow-ups 58900 and 58901 fixing builds and restoring safe-area behavior after test failures. Related, pull request 58908 adds a use screen…
What's next: watch for the 0.88…
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