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We’re excited to announce that our first preview builds are aligned with React Native 0.62!

As a preview, we’ll do our best not to make groundbreaking changes, but there are still a few bumps that need to be ironed out before we’re ready for release. You can now start trying React Native for Windows preview 0.62!

A similar update to React Native for MAC OS is in the works. Stay tuned for the next update!

What’s new?

  • React Native 0.62 features new features such as the look and use of Color Plan () hooks

  • Now use the Visual Studio V 142 build tool

  • Better RTL support

  • New native module APIS (REACT_INIT and REACT_FUNCTION)

  • Improved diagnostics in command line tools

  • Initial ARM64 support

  • The experiment supports binary distribution in React Native Windows

  • Bug fixes and reliability improvements

React Native for MAC OS Review

One of our biggest recent announcements was that we added and fully supported the React Native for MAC OS extension! We are very excited to develop responsive native support for MAC OS while working on our Windows.

We have an official NPM package for React Native for MAC OS and a buyback available for the public to track and contribute to — we hope to see some really cool React Native apps in the future that can actually run anywhere right now.

Reaction machine duet on the surface

React Native runs on the Surface Duo!

This is a bit of a surprise, as React Native works well on Android today, but just running it on the new Surface Duo devices isn’t enough. We also added support for dual-screen devices and their states by providing Two important apis: The Two Pane View and the Device Info Module.

To learn more about developing with React Native on the Surface Duo, check out our latest blog post detailing the experience.

New module support!

We have started to address the Windows Community module support gap – starting with our contribution! thisIncluding the WebView andCamera, Picker, Async Store,Net InfoThe Date and Time Picker* * * *.

On top of the initial setup, we’re looking at a bunch of things that we know are great and essential when building React Native applications. Check out the full list of issues we track and plan to address next on the GitHub project committee.

Finally, in addition to personally contributing to these community modules, we want to help guide a robust testing infrastructure and improve reliability for consumers of these modules. We have started this process by adding CI reaction-native-WebView repo. Stay tuned for more!

Browse the web

The WebView module provides you with basic web hosting technologies that are available locally on your target device. This module has been updated to support Windows and MAC OS.

To get your own version of the application in this video, check out the Rss Reader sample.

The camera!

The Camera module is another big step in making it easier for you to have unrestricted access to native apis.

Just as on mobile devices, when you define a Camera Feed module and the device on which you are running the application is connected to a Camera, the component will connect to the correct local API so that you can access the hardware needed to take sweet photos.

Picking people

Asynchronous storage

Arguably, Async Store is one of the most important modules when building React Native applications and is now fully supported on Windows and MAC OS.

The network information

An important network API for connecting and checking the health of connections. Because React Native is a javascripts based framework, it’s valuable to have an API like this available on all platforms — our recently released module supports Windows and Apple operating systems.

Date picker

The Date Time Picker Community control, a unique component that in many ways defines the design of the platform you are using, has been updated to support Windows.