From Liquid Glass UI innovations to native patches and performance-sculpted interactions, it’s a masterclass in mobile craftsmanship. We’re also seeing a wave of important releases across the ecosystem: major updates to MMKV, Tailwind RN, Enriched, Native Stack, Gifted Chat, and a notable bump to Skia, all improving stability, performance, and the developer experience. Whether you’re here for new tools, engineering inspiration, or the latest from the community, this issue has a lot to lock onto. Let’s dive in.
🔔 Featured
• Vercel just revealed how they built the new v0 iOS app: a native-feeling React Native experience pushed to its limits.
In this deep technical breakdown, Fernando Rojo (Head of Mobile) shares how the team prototyped dozens of variations before landing on React Native + Expo to deliver an app that feels worthy of the Home Screen. The article covers everything from smooth chat animations, dynamic keyboard handling, Liquid Glass UI, native patches, bottom-sheet fixes, and a fully shared API layer between web and mobile. It’s a rare behind-the-scenes look at the engineering challenges, performance tricks, and native integrations required to ship a truly premium AI chat experience on iOS.
🎁 New Releases
📦 react-native-mmkv-4.0.0 a major rewrite introducing full Nitro support, improved stability, and native MKVCore integration, along with better error handling, App Group support, and more reliable listener behavior. This release also updates dependencies, adds new features like React Native Harness, and ships several important bug fixes for a smoother storage experience on modern React Native versions.
📦 react-native-tailwind-0.13.0 delivers a wide set of improvements including new screen and window dimension utilities, better Babel plugin integration, enhanced state modifier documentation, refined runtime examples, and numerous fixes across modifiers, cross-references, and developer tooling. This update strengthens stability, expands component support such as TouchableOpacity, and improves overall DX through clearer docs and streamlined configuration.
📦 react-native-enriched-0.16.0 React Native Enriched v0.1.6 delivers a mix of improvements and fixes across both iOS and Android, including better measurement handling, cleaner event emitting, improved HTML and link detection, and new props like scrollEnabled. This update also resolves layout issues, heading conflicts, and link edge cases while welcoming two new contributors to the project.
📦 react-navigation/native-stack-7.8.1 React Navigation Native introduces a new
pageSheetpresentation style, bringing a more native and modern modal experience to iOS. This release is small but impactful, giving developers another high-quality presentation option aligned with current iOS design patterns.📦 react-native-gifted-chat-3.2.0 introduces a new custom Lua parser for better control and performance, improved emoji rendering, expanded color theme support, and cleaner component architecture, alongside multiple bug fixes that enhance message rendering and overall stability. This release also updates snapshots, refines styles, and improves maintainability across several smaller patch versions leading up to 3.2.0.
📦 react-native-skia-2.4.0 introduces a new
zIndexfeature, giving developers finer control over layering and rendering order within Skia-powered views. This update is small but meaningful, expanding layout flexibility for complex graphics and UI compositions.
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