Notable new features: the long-awaited animation API, text-decoration styles for Text elements and remote image loading events. This animation API, wow. You have to try it. Check out my Tinder card demo using the Animated API, and @sahrens' talk at React Europe for an in depth look at the API.

This release boasts performance improvements: a switch to io.js, a faster version of the babel transformer, and optimizations by @a2 around removing layout-only View nodes.

I know I'm really milking this one, but I can't emphasize enough how fantastic I think this library is. Click through to read the docs!

"Soon after React Native's release, I started working on this tool to help share and test React Native apps: the React Native Playground (https://rnplay.org)"

A great demo of React Native Playground, well played @jsierles.

Watch, learn, be happy. A big :clap: for all of the presenters, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!

@unknownexception spent a good amount of time pushing his Image loading progress events that were included in the 0.8.0-rc release, and followed that up promptly with some examples for UIExplorer to ensure that people know how to use it.

This pull request is one in a series that adds support for 3d transforms to style. Very cool stuff when used in conjunction with the Animated api especially. Thanks @chirag04!

This adds workarounds for the code that was preventing React from compiling when linked against an iOS App Extension target. Some iOS APIs are unavailable to App Extensions, and Xcode's static analysis will catch attempts to use methods that have been flagged as unavailable.

Learn more about app extensions.

@tylermcginnis33 there's a branch, soon as 1.0 ships we'll make it happen, it kinda works right now iirc

Currently, this branch aims to incorporate navigation history. It will be interesting to see how it integrates with Navigator - which works great but could be even more powerful if it were declarative.

Check out the branch.

An interesting experiment that uses React Native's css-layout library to prototype interfaces in Sketch. Seems like a good middle ground between developers and designers, and a good way to get more familiar with React Native's subset of supported CSS declarations.

If the demo gifs are any indication, this looks to be the best pull-to-refresh library out there at the moment. Animations look smooth and it has a clean API, so check it out!

Library built on last week's blog post about gesture recognition in React Native - it's implemented using ES7 decorators, which are basically like macros that wrap a component in some other component to layer on functionality. Think onions. But components. Component-onions. Maybe that's why the syntax is @decoratorName. @ is pretty onion-like.

So yeah, onions aside, check it out if you need custom gesture recognition like pinch, or are interested to see how a decorator-based API can work in React Native. Also johanneslumpe is just a cool human being, so respect.

Speaking of onions/decorators, check this other decorator library from the fine exponent duo of @ide and @ccheever. With a @scrollable dusted on top of your component declaration, your component is given the same external api (eg: scrollTo) as a ScrollView.

The only thing better than completing something is autocompleting something. PSA: try to stay away from using RCT for your module prefixes. I get it, I'm a hypocrite because in react-native-video I use RCTVideo. Or am I? Kind of but not so much because this was actually