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Introducing Reanimated 4.2.0

We have just published a new release of Reanimated — version 4.2.0. Despite being a minor release, it brings about some major updates. With Reanimated 4, we decided to ditch the Legacy Architecture to support the push for one default Architecture in React Native. To accelerate the process, we decided to forgo porting some of Reanimated’s features.

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Worklets 0.8: The Shareable — Shared Memory’s Missing Piece

TL;DR: Worklets 0.8.0 introduces the Shareable — a runtime-bound shared memory primitive that powers Reanimated’s Shared Values under the hood. Now it’s available as a lean standalone building block for your own use cases.

Tomasz J. Żelawski•

Mar 19, 2026•4 min read

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The Future of Video in React Native: Moving from expo-av to expo-video

The release of Expo SDK 55 marks a turning point for media handling in React Native. Following its previous deprecation, expo-av has now been fully removed, with its functionality officially split into two specialized, modern packages: expo-video and expo-audio.

Wiktor Gut•

Feb 27, 2026•5 min read

React Native

Introducing Gesture Handler 3.0: Hook-Based API, Deeper Reanimated Integration & More

Meet the first beta release of Gesture Handler 3. This release brings your favorite gesture handling library up to speed in the new world, where the New Architecture is the Architecture, manual memoization is quickly becoming a relic of the past, thanks to the React Compiler, and interactions are more beautiful and more performant than ever, thanks to Reanimated 4.

Jakub Piasecki•

Feb 5, 2026•3 min read

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Behind the Scenes of React Native Multithreading: Vision Camera V5 x React Native Worklets

If you’ve been working with React Native for a while, you’ve probably hit a wall where animations, gestures, or app performance should have been smooth, but weren’t.

Tomasz J. Żelawski•

Jan 30, 2026•5 min read

React Native

Huawei x Software Mansion: Bringing React Native Support to HarmonyOS NEXT

Several years ago, Huawei, together with industry partners, started working on a brand new operating system. This is how OpenHarmony was born, an open-source competitor to the well-established iOS and Android markets. Similarly to how Google builds Android on top of AOSP, Huawei develops its proprietary HarmonyOS NEXT distribution from the OpenHarmony codebase, which powers Huawei devices.

Przemek Sosna•

Jan 14, 2026•5 min read

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React Native in 2026: Trends & Our Predictions

Okay, so we’re all back from the holiday break — hopefully rested and ready to face whatever 2026 throws at us. Of course we’re talking React Native-wise. If you skimmed React Native news over the last year, you know there have been a lot of foundational changes: the New Architecture (or the Architecture, should we say), TurboModules, Hermes V1, multithreading, official debugging tooling…

Katarzyna Smolen•

Jan 8, 2026•10 min read

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Best React Native Debugging Tools in 2025

Best React Native Debugging Tools in 2026

Kacper Kapuściak•

Jan 7, 2026•7 min read

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Welcoming the Next Generation of Hermes

React Native 0.82 introduces an experimental option to use Hermes V1. You may be wondering what it is, and if you have ever heard of “Static Hermes”, you’re on the right track. But if that name doesn’t ring a bell, don’t worry. In this article, you’ll learn what Hermes V1 is, how it differs from Static Hermes, how it works under the hood, and how to enable it.