React Native: Strict C++ API Lockdown
The dominant pattern is enforcement of React Native's three-tier C++ stable API with new Android and iOS opt-ins, alongside Android UI correctness fixes and iOS text and scroll recycling improvements.
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: 2026-10-13T13:06:42Z
- Audio duration: PT2M26S
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Good morning, it's October 13th, 2026.
The lead story is a coordinated lockdown of the C++ stable API. React Native is sorting headers into public, for-frameworks, and private tiers, and adding opt-ins so app native code can be checked against those guards.
On the build side, commit b 5 d 9 b 6 c adds an Android Gradle opt-in for strict API mode, and pull request 59037 adds the CocoaPods equivalent on iOS. The team's own code is unaffected, but third-party pods and libraries will now get errors for private includes and warnings for frameworks-only use.
That reclassification is the bulk of the activity. Pull request 59032 moves the DOM shadow-tree helpers to for-frameworks, explicitly to keep animation libraries working. Pull request 59027 does the same for recoverable errors, while commits re-tier TurboModule binding headers, layout conformance headers,…
The second theme is Android UI correctness. Pull request 59017 and commit 9641acd fix safe-area insets for scaled, clipped, and cancelling transforms, matching iOS precision. Pull request 59020 fixes a horizontal ScrollView resting past its left edge after a fling on Android 14. Text input gets two fixes for…
On iOS, commit 51 d b 0…
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