Reanimated 4.2.0 is here, and it brings gifts! 🔥

🎁 Long-awaited Shared Element Transitions 🎉 Not production-ready yet, so they’re behind a feature flag. Please, test it out and give us feedback!
🎁 Experimental performance fixes, inspired by real apps...

We know the pain of slow native builds… so we created something really awesome to fix them. 😎

Introducing RN Repo: a free, open-source plugin that makes shipping React Native apps faster thanks to prebuilt artifacts. ⚡️🚀

Try it out now in beta: rnrepo.org

Detour is finally available to everyone! 🤩

Early testers helped us refine UX, parameter handling between links & redirects, and more – making it a deferred deep linking tool you can rely on.

Got feedback? Try it, open issues on GitHub, or drop us a message. 🤞

docs.swmansion.com/detour/

React Native Screens will provide Native Split View 🚀
Coming soon to your favorite navigation libraries!

New in Radon 1.12 👇
🌐 Improved Network Inspector – syntax highlighting, copy to cURL, fetch & more
📱 iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro device support
✨ Radon AI can see build & bundle logs
🔧 Run a single Metro server on a specific port
⚛️ Support for React Native 0.82

You say layout animations in React Native, we think Reanimated 4 🐎

Download our cheat sheet for ready-to-use code snippets and API overviews! ✨

docs.swmansion.com/react-native...

Need to animate style properties between two or more states? ✨

Use CSS Transitions to animate a button’s size on press, show/hide a modal, or change a container’s color.

👉 Grab the Reanimated 4 Cheat Sheet for API overviews and code snippets 😎

Introducing Expo Live Activity 🚀

A React Native module for @expo.dev that manages iOS Live Activities and brings real-time updates to the lock screen.

▶️ Start, update & stop Live Activities directly from your RN app
⚡ Enjoy simple integration with a JS-only API
📲 Handle push notification tokens

CSS Animations are perfect for fire-and-forget effects like:
✔️ loading spinners
✔️ pulsing effects
✔️ UI elements that animate independently of user interaction

Download Reanimated 4 Cheat Sheet to get ready-to-use code snippets and API overviews! 🚀

Knock, knock 👀 Up for some React Native Reanimated 4 tips? 🐎

Download our cheat sheet with API overviews and code snippets covering CSS Animations & Transitions, Shared Values, and Layout Animations. ✨

Radon IDE 1.11 fresh out of the oven! 🧑‍🍳
📁 Device File Transfer – send files to device
🌐 Improved Network Inspector – filtering, sorting, UX improvements, performant list of requests
🐛 Step Into/Step Out controls in debugger overlay
🆕 Expo SDK 54 support

Something just happened in your device preview and you missed it? 👀 Radon IDE’s Replays automatically capture the last few seconds of what was happening.

🔁 Review recent interactions
🎬 Scrub frame by frame
💾 Save the replay as a file

Introducing Private Mind! 🚀 Our new OS app, built with React Native ExecuTorch, lets you run LLMs locally on your device.
🔹 Explore and swap pre-exported models
🔹 Benchmark performance, speed & memory
🔹 Customize system prompts
🔹 100% offline, private & free
Available on App Store and Google Play

Announcing React Native Screens Overhaul ✨
↳ Native Bottom Tabs on iOS and Android
↳ iOS 26
↳ Support for the New & Legacy Architecture
↳ More native primitives coming in the future

Currently in Alpha 🚀