Whenever I need someone to build an app to enter a contest that I'm putting on I know that I can maybe sometimes count on Ken. Solid app.

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Woah now, Relay with a Reindex.io backend? Neat stuff Daniele.

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Jason hedged his bets and went ahead and made an app that included a signed portrait of @vjeux, so even you don't elect him as king of the contest or whatever he will still be a winner. Clever move.

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Alexey Kureev has a really cool sounding name, which pairs well with his slick app.

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Sorry, no release notes this time around. They will be back for v0.13.0-rc. Thank you to the 79 contributors for your 418 commits that went into this release! Also worth nothing: React v0.14.0 was released last week!.

Reindex - Instant GraphQL Backend for Your React Apps. Used by @dzannotti along with Relay in his contest submission below! Go put your email in and get a beta invite. I haven't had a chance to play with it yet myself but I've heard great things! Ping @villeimmonen on Twitter with any questions.

Highly acclaimed blog post by @jacobwgillespie: "This post describes some of my journey with implementing a GraphQL backend service, so it is a snapshot of what I’ve learned so far, presented in the hopes that it will be useful to others. Also, some of the specific real-world implementation details internal to Playlist have been paraphrased / simplified / anonymized for obvious reasons."

"If you’re like me, when you saw how easy debugging React Native applications was, you were mind-blown. Setting breakpoints in Google Chrome to control your iOS device seemed like magic and sorcery.

But if you’re like me, you also distrust magic in programming. Magic must be understood so that it turns into engineering fact & competence. This article attempts to demystify React Native Debugging so that you understand the technical details behind it."

@browniefed can't stop, won't stop (hopefully) writing these tutorials demonstrating how to accomplish various feats of animations with Animated. Neato.

It's always fun to read about the experience that people have with React Native!

Learn how to use React Native Android, in Chinese!

A perfect example of a time when you need to break out UIKit, write some lower-level code, and bridge it to React Native to achieve your perf goals. Well played @aroth!

Wondering how to add custom fonts to your Android app? Here you go, courtesy of @corymsmith.

"When you reload and create a new bridge, one of the things that happens during setup is that the RCTAccessibilityManager fires a notification. The old bridge would receive this notification from the new bridge's RCTAccessibilityManager, which we don't want, especially because the two are running on different shadow queues."

If you had been facing crashes in your app on 0.11 when reloading, you will welcome this. Great fix @ide!

A discussion is going on about potential solutions to implement shadows on Android and how that can be done in a cross-platform way. I encourage you to participate if you have any thoughts on the matter! Thanks @bsansouci for getting the conversation going.

This deserves a custom good guy greg caption.

Hurrah! This commit introduces a wrapper component for SwitchIOS and SwitchAndroid called Switch that lets you use Switches without switching the platform. Switch.

Here he is again. Shoutout to @satya164 who has been a huge help since Android was released!

@zenlambda lends a hand by sharing his implementation of the floating action button module. Thanks, guy!

"Appetize.io graciously offered free simulator usage both for rnplay.org and the docs. This is a preview of how embedding the simulator might work: http://quick.as/X6qlfpYj2"

This has been in limbo for months so I'm really excited to see it land! Fantastic job sticking with it @rxb!

"This diff implements inline image support for <Text> nodes. Images are specified using <Image> tags, however all properties of the image are currently ignored apart from the source (including width/height styles).

Images are loaded asyncronously, and will trigger a text re-layout when they have loaded."

render() {
  return (
    <View>
      <Text>
        Inline image! <Image source={require('./flux.png')}/>. Neat, huh?
      </Text>
    </View>
  );
}

Wraps the [android-iconify] library to give you access to a bunch of icons on React Native Android.

Also note that react-native-icons supports Android as well, so pick whichever one works best for you!

Potentially a useful little library to save you the hassle of manually subscribing to keyboard events and responding to them to update your layout.

These folks are doing a great job recently of keeping react-native-webpack-server up to date. It's working with 0.12 now, check it out if you're a fan of hot-reloading. Shout out to fellow Canadian @elliottsj for the work he has been putting in!

"Obscure passwords and other sensitive personal information when a react-native app transitions to the background"

I love these folks. They make rnplay.org possible and in doing so support the React Native community in a big way. They are also allowing us to use their simulators within the React Native docs! I am not paid to advertise for them, I'm happy to advocate for products that I believe in (see: this newsletter about React Native) - so check them out if you have any need for an in-browser simulator for iOS or Android! Go and upload an app, the first 100 minutes of simulator use are free!

"Newsletters should take minutes, not hours. Goodbits helps you quickly build email campaigns." That's their thing. True story, I once wore a Goodbits tshirt while cycling across the Golden Gate bridge. If you've read this far, you should probably at least try out Goodbits, because clearly you have time on your hands.