React Native: Shared Animation Backend Goes Open Source
The shared animation backend now supports text updates and is enabled for open source, while ScrollView and dev UI are reworked for iPhone Duo. Flow 0.340, Kotlin and visual-test storage upgrades round out a toolchain and reliability push.
Duration: PT3M7S
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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: 2026-11-13T14:03:45Z
- Audio duration: PT3M7S
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Good morning, it's Friday, November 13th, 2026, and this is your React Native daily briefing.
The through-line today is performance plus large-screen readiness: the shared animation backend now handles text and is switched on for open source, while ScrollView and developer UI are being reworked for the iPhone Duo.
First, animation. PR 59781 lets animated props carry a text value aimed at the stable text or paragraph node, writing it into the first raw text child on commit. That unblocks Reanimated-style animated text that previously had no stable target when React recreated the text child. Paired with that, PR 59958 enables…
Second, foldables. PR 59194 adds horizontal safe-area handling for content inset adjustment, fixing the Duo's vertical rail case, and follow-up PR 59836 uses the maximum of safe-area inset and container padding for automatic insets. In parallel, the loading banner and paused-in-debugger overlay were redesigned on…
Finally, toolchain and test health. Flow moves to version zero-three-forty for the checker in PR 59961 and the parser tooling in PR 59983, with adapters for changed type shapes. Kotlin rises to two-four-twenty-one and SoLoader to zero-thirteen, fixing…
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