React Native: Locking Down the C++ API Surface, Fixing Touch and Animation Bugs
The biggest thread today is a sweeping effort to classify C++ modules as public, framework-only, or private under the new Stable API system, alongside a cluster of subtle bug fixes touching touch handling, animated listeners, and text input state on Android.
Duration: PT2M26S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from React Native.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: React Native
- Published: 2026-08-20T13:04:44Z
- Audio duration: PT2M26S
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Good day. It's August 20th, and here's what moved in React Native.
The dominant pattern today: React Native is methodically tagging its C++ internals under the Stable API three-tier visibility model — public, for-frameworks, or private. Jakub Piasecki alone covered network inspection, Hermes's Chrome inspector, and microtasks with these guards, while others locked down OS-compat…
Second theme: touch and input correctness bugs that were silently breaking real apps. Commit 06eb1fe fixes a long-standing iOS issue where programmatic, non-user scrolls — like an animated marquee — were cancelling active touches in sibling components, because scroll events lacked a flag Android already had. Commit…
Third, ongoing DevTools network work continues as a stack of experimental PRs from Huntie — throttling on iOS and Android, an RNTester example, and frontend capability flags — all explicitly marked unshipped and gated behind feature flags.
On infrastructure, Android end-to-end testing now retries only failed flows instead of restarting entire suites, and clang-format is pinned to a consistent version across platforms.
What to watch: expect more Stable API guard PRs landing in small batches, and…
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