React Native Radio

Mazen and Robin catch up on five months of React Native and Expo releases, covering the biggest updates in 0.82–0.84 and Expo SDK 55. They talk through the move to the new architecture, Hermes V1 becoming the default, faster builds, better developer tools, and AI updates that make upgrading a little less of a headache.

 

Show Notes

React Native 0.82 – A New Era for the New Architecture

React Native 0.83 – Stable New Architecture and React 19.2 Updates

React Native 0.84 – Hermes V1 by Default and Legacy Architecture Cleanup

Expo SDK 55 – React Native 0.83, React 19.2, and New Project Template

“Pay It Forward” – You Never Know How Much It Helps (YouTube Short)

Expo Skills – Official AI Agent Skills for Expo and React Native

 

Connect With Us!

Robin Heinze: @robinheinze

Mazen Chami: @mazenchami

React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio

 

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red!

Infinite Red is an expert React Native consultancy located in the USA. With over a decade of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter, core React Native contributors, creators of Ignite and Reactotron, and much, much more), Infinite Red is the best choice for helping you build and deploy your next React Native app.

Fernando Rojo, Head of Mobile at Vercel, joins Mazen and Robin to discuss building the V0 mobile app with React Native and Expo, including tech stack decisions, performance optimization, and how the project pushed Vercel to improve its native tooling.

 

Show Notes

How Vercel Built the v0 iOS App with React Native

Leveling Up React Native with Vercel Agent Skills

AIX: AI Chat Primitives for Native Apps from Vercel

 

Connect With Us!

Fernando Rojo: @fernandorojo

Robin Heinze: @robinheinze

Mazen Chami: @mazenchami

React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio

 

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red!

Infinite Red is an expert React Native consultancy located in the USA. With over a decade of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter, core React Native contributors, creators of Ignite and Reactotron, and much, much more), Infinite Red is the best choice for helping you build and deploy your next React Native app.

William Candillon sits down with Mazen and Robin to show how React Native Skia enables smooth, high‑end animations, shaders, and UI effects in React Native. The episode also dives into WebGPU and the future of 3D and advanced graphics on mobile.

 

Show Notes

William Candillon's YouTube Channel

React Native Skia Tutorials

ShaderToy

TypeGPU Documentation

WebGPU and Skia for Web Graphics (Shopify Engineering)

William Candillon on X

WebGL Samples

Shader's Gambit

Introducing Skia Graphite (Chromium Blog)

 

Connect With Us!

William Candillon: @wcandillon

Robin Heinze: @robinheinze

Mazen Chami: @mazenchami

React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio

 

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red!

Infinite Red is an expert React Native consultancy located in the USA. With over a decade of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter, core React Native contributors, creators of Ignite and Reactotron, and much, much more), Infinite Red is the best choice for helping you build and deploy your next React Native app.

Mazen and Robin chat with Krzysztof Magiera about React Native Screens, the "most important library you'll never use directly," from its origin as a fix for memory-hogging stacked screens to the exciting V5 rewrite built exclusively for the new architecture.

 

Show Notes

RNR 309 - React Native IDE with Krzysztof Magiera

RNS Website

RNS GitHub

Blog: Introducing Fabric to react-native-screens

Connect With Us!

Krzysztof Magiera: @kzzzf

Robin Heinze: @robinheinze

Mazen Chami: @mazenchami

React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red!

Infinite Red is an expert React Native consultancy located in the USA. With over a decade of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter, core React Native contributors, creators of Ignite and Reactotron, and much, much more), Infinite Red is the best choice for helping you build and deploy your next React Native app.

Mazen and Robin sit down with Kræn Hansen from ElevenLabs to break down what Node API actually is and why it could be a game-changer for React Native library authors who want to write native modules once and use them everywhere, plus what still needs to happen before it's ready for prime time.
 
Show Notes
Announcing Node-API Support for React Native (Callstack)
Kræn Hansen's React Universe Talk
Kræn Hansen on Callstack's livestream
Host package: React-native-node-api
Hermes implementation discussion

Connect With Us!
Kræn Hansen: @KrænHansen
Robin Heinze: @robinheinze
Mazen Chami: @mazenchami
React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red!
Infinite Red is an expert React Native consultancy located in the USA. With over a decade of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter, core React Native contributors, creators of Ignite and Reactotron, and much, much more), Infinite Red is the best choice for helping you build and deploy your next React Native app.