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Happy New Year Readers! A new year, a new start, a new React Native version, and new articles for you! This issue has a little something for everyone - from cool projects and modules to conference announcements and videos. Finally, we're happy to announce that the newsletter now has over 6000 subscribers!
Happy New Year and happy reading!
Executive Editor, Frank von Hoven at Infinite Red
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Awesome Sponsors of the Newsletter
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Version Update & Highlights from facebook/react-native
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0.40 - December 2016 release
A few highlights: Android
- Handle "Never Ask Again" in permissions and add requestMultiplePermissions
- Stop silently failing for requires
iOS
- Introduce spellCheck prop to TextInput
- Add badgeColor property
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Fix memory leak in Chrome debugging
RCTWebSocketExecutor saves every WebSocket callback when sending message to chrome, but does not clear them in a debug session until the JS bridge is reloaded, and there may be thousands of blocks saved in the callback table. This PR removes them after they are called.
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React Native Radio #49 - Bonnie Eisenman on Learning React Native
Bonnie Eisenman talks about how she got into React Native and programming in general, her current work with React Native, and her thoughts for someone getting started with React Native on becoming efficient and having an app in the app store. Also Nader, Peter, Gant, and Bonnie discuss the quick advance of React Native and the most interesting problems it currently faces.
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Highlights from the community - Modules
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react-native-facebook-ui
Pure javascript UI prototype of iOS Facebook for React Native framework. (Only includes the news feed.)
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react-native-icloudstore
A drop-in replacement for React Native's AsyncStorage API that wraps the iCloud Ubiquitous Key-Value Store.
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react-native-clean-form
Easy react-native forms using bootstrap-like syntax with redux-form+immutablejs integration. Styled using styled-components.
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Startr
Combine popular apps for inspiration for your next startup. "Like Airbnb for Uber."
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Breakout
Cool app inspired by Atari's Breakout.
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Friends of the Newsletter
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Exponent
Exponent lets web developers build truly native apps that work across both iOS and Android by writing them once in just JavaScript. It's open source and free and uses React Native.
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Appetize.io
Stream iOS & Android Native Apps in the Browser. For embedding apps in websites, development, client demos, testing and more.
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