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  • 📦 react-native-skia-lab is a showcase of advanced React Native Skia techniques, featuring interactive demos for shaders, gestures, physics, painting, pixel manipulation, and polygon rendering. While it isn't a library release, it serves as a valuable reference for implementing high-performance graphics, animations, and creative UI experiences in React Native.

  • 📦 Maestro CLI is a mobile UI testing framework that automates Android and iOS apps using simple YAML-based test flows. Version 2.6.0 introduces Maestro Viewer for live device interaction inside AI coding agents, improves parallel iOS simulator execution, removes deprecated Studio and Rhino JS support, speeds up test execution with smarter hierarchy handling, enhances reporting and MCP tools, and delivers numerous usability improvements and bug fixes for WebViews, screenshots, assertions, and error reporting.

  • 📦 react-native-nitro-fetch is a high-performance native networking library for React Native that replaces the standard Fetch API with a faster implementation. Version 1.3.0 improves performance with optimized text decoding (including SIMD acceleration), fixes binary response handling in arrayBuffer() and bytes(), resolves Webpack TextDecoder warnings, and removes unnecessary boxing overhead for better runtime efficiency.

  • 📦 react-native-skills is a collection of reusable AI agent skills that help coding assistants generate higher-quality React Native code and follow platform best practices. Recent updates expand the available skill set with new VisionCamera-focused guidance and improvements, making AI-assisted React Native development more accurate and productive.

  • 📦 agent-device enables AI coding agents to interact with Android and iOS devices for app testing, automation, and debugging. Version 0.15.0 introduces a major internal architecture refactor for improved maintainability, boosts iOS replay and macOS device discovery performance, adds a screenshot --no-stabilize option, and delivers numerous stability fixes for Android snapshots, text input, iOS interactions, and React Native development workflows.

  • 📦 expo-speech-recognition brings native speech-to-text capabilities to Expo and React Native applications. Version 56.0.1 fixes Android issues with getSupportedLocales() and offline model downloads when invoked multiple times, while also renaming a download status enum to improve API consistency.

  • 📦 React Native Worklets (part of the Reanimated ecosystem) enables JavaScript code to run efficiently across multiple runtimes for high-performance animations and background execution. Version 0.9.1 adds cross-runtime Promise support, allows shareables to be hosted on any runtime, improves memory management and debugging with better error messages and async stack traces, and delivers numerous performance, stability, and serialization improvements for Bundle Mode.

  • 📦 Harness is a cross-platform testing framework for React Native that simplifies automated app testing across Android, iOS, and the web. Version 1.2.0 adds automated permission handling, native iOS code coverage, improved iOS simulator support (including UUID lookup and cached XCTest artifacts), integrates Harness skills directly into the CLI, and delivers architecture refinements, web improvements, and multiple stability fixes.

  • 📦 react-native-enriched-markdown is a rich Markdown renderer and editor for React Native with support for interactive editing, streaming, and advanced formatting. Version 0.6.0 adds mentions, superscript/subscript, improved GitHub Flavored Markdown streaming (tables and math), customizable text selection, Storybook support, and delivers extensive stability, performance, and rendering fixes across Android, iOS, macOS, and the web.

  • 📦 React Navigation Core v7.21.2 improves deep linking by fixing path regex handling (including non-capturing groups), optimizes route matching and serializable state checks for better performance, skips unnecessary path validation in production, and includes companion version bumps for the navigation packages with no API changes.

  • 📦 Detox 20.51.3 focuses on stability across iOS and Android by fixing indexed element attribute lookups, improving iOS biometric simulation and NSURLSession synchronization, hardening Android WebView handling and ADB device detection, and enhancing synchronization reporting and error formatting.

  • 📦 Uniwind 1.8.0 adds Vite 8 support and a new public artifact generation script, while fixing phantom dependency issues and improving internal styling, testing, and dependency management.

  • 📦 react-native-enriched-html 0.7.0 introduces the new EnrichedText component for rich HTML rendering and adds experimental web support. The release also expands web features (headings, lists, links, code blocks, blockquotes, checklists), fixes numerous iOS and Android editing and parsing issues, and includes a breaking change that replaces the style prop type with EnrichedInputStyle.

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