Swift for Android - First Preview Release
Apple just announced the first preview of Swift for Android, allowing developers to build Android business logic using the same Swift codebase used on Apple platforms. This marks a major milestone for unified mobile development - you can now share models, networking layers, and more across iOS and Android without rewriting in Kotlin.
👉 Check out the SDK details
New Releases
📦 Gesture Handler 2.29: Added proper support for iOS 26.
📦 Screens 4.18 — Refined API for the new header items system.
📦 New: Nitro Device Info: Synchronous device info via Nitro Modules
📦 Liquid Glass: Border support and Zeego context menu compatibility.
🧪 Experiments & Beta
📦 React Navigation: Now supports native bottom tabs
📦 React Native IAP: Now supports Horizon OS.
📦 Uniwind Benchmarks: Unistyle shared performance results for Uniwind,
Tutorials & Deep Dives
🎥 Oskar Kwaśniewski: React Native and TurboModules with Swift
🎥 Simon Grimm: Platform Specific Components, Layouts & Styling with React Native
📓 CallStack: Getting started with Expo on Meta
📓 Uniwind: Working with monorepos
📓 Collection: Published or works in progress Nitro Modules and its tutorials
Recent Jobs
In the past week, we had two React Native job submissions:
Next Events
🏴 Nov 7 - React Native London
Saad Najmi (Microsoft) & Jay Meistrich (Bravely) will take the stage to explore the latest developments and future of RN on macOS.
Happy Friday — see you next week!
💬 Got questions or want to chat?
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