Alpha version of @expo-image is finally out!
⚡️ Designed for speed
#️⃣ Supports blurhash
💾 Disk cache
🔋 Empowered by @Expo Modules API
🎯 Implements object-fit and object-position from Web
💫 Transitions (wip on Android)
🛠️ Works with bare SDK 47 apps
🏗️ Compatible with Fabric
Please, be patient 🙏 The release of @Expo SDK 52 is one of the toughest in the last 7 years since I've started working on Expo 🤯
Full of new exciting features, React Native 0.76, the New Architecture in Expo Go and enabled by default in new projects and much more 🔥
Alpha version of @expo-image is finally out!
⚡️ Designed for speed
#️⃣ Supports blurhash
💾 Disk cache
🔋 Empowered by @Expo Modules API
🎯 Implements object-fit and object-position from Web
💫 Transitions (wip on Android)
🛠️ Works with bare SDK 47 apps
🏗️ Compatible with Fabric
🍫🍭Early preview of a new way to create native modules for React Native and @Expo!
💪 First-class support for Swift and Kotlin
🏗 DSL syntax
✔️ Automatic arguments validation and conversion
🔌 Integration with JSI
Some rumors going around about @Expo SDK 47:
⚡️ Bridgeless (JSI) native function calls in all Expo modules
🔬 Experimental Fabric support for video, camera and linear gradient components
💪 Stable release of Expo Modules API
🦋 Hermes in Expo Go on iOS
⚛️ React Native 0.70.3
Have you ever wondered if #SwiftUI can be used instead of UIKit as a rendering engine in @reactnative? Thanks to @swmansion, I've had a chance and pleasure to experiment with this and here is the first blogpost with some findings 😍
🎉 expo-image just transitioned from alpha to beta! 🎉
Thank you all who gave us feedback during the alpha period 🙏
Check out @expo docs for more details on what it can do:
expo-image 1.2.0 with support for ThumbHash is out! 🎉
Its advantages over BlurHash:
✅Encodes more detail in the same space 👁️
✅Encodes the aspect ratio ➗
✅Gives more accurate colors 🌈
✅Supports alpha channel ✨
Congrats to @WojciechDrozdz0 from @swmansion! 👏
Stable version of the @Expo Modules API is finally out! 🥳
I'm so excited about what we've built and how it can help developers in building native modules for Expo and React Native in modern languages and with an easy to understand declarative syntax 🤩
More in the thread 🧵👇
Sneak peek of the new developer menu that's gonna be available in the next @expo client release 😃 I hope you'll love this! 😍
And that's not all, more details soon 🙊