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Testing
10/30/2026

How AI Agents Can Cut Manual QA by 30%

Two days waiting for QA can turn a small fix into another round of rebasing and context switching. See how a workflow using AI agents could cut manual QA effort by 30% across mobile, web, and TV, and learn how to validate the gains.

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Karol Latusek

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10/28/2026

Building a Software Factory: The Night My Agents Waited for Me

Two coding agents worked overnight on Simlock and ended up waiting for their maintainer. This article examines the questions that stopped them and the workflow changes that followed, from recurring permissions and review limits to product choices agents can make provisionally for human review.

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Szymon Chmal

Software Developer

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AI
10/22/2026

Your AI Coding Agent Still Needs an Architecture

AI coding agents make implementation decisions about logic, dependencies, and shared behavior. A favorites feature illustrates how explicit contracts, gradual migration, behavior tests, and automated dependency checks give engineers a basis for reviewing those decisions.

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Szymon Chmal

Software Developer

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Testing
10/20/2026

Give QA Agents the Controls They Need With Appduct

Appduct lets AI QA agents call functions registered by your team inside a running app. This article illustrates how an adjustable app clock and a simulated invitation event can prepare conditions for UI checks.

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Szymon Chmal

Software Developer

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Callstack

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Virtual Reality
10/15/2026

Multi-Window React Native Apps With the Meta VR Layout SDK

Add a second Quest window to your existing React Native tree without creating another Android activity. Follow a Meta VR Layout SDK companion-panel demo covering setup, shared state, window positioning, fallbacks, and testing with Meta Spatial Simulator.

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Tomasz Włodarczyk

Software Engineer

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Testing
10/13/2026

Agentic Mobile Testing With e2e and agent-device

TesterArmy's e2e uses agent-device to drive mobile tests on iOS and Android. This article walks through goal-based actions, deterministic checks, the mobile engine, and replay caching, then shows how to initialize a test setup. Cached agent.act steps skip model calls; agent.assert continues to evaluate the current screen.

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Michał Pierzchala

Principal Engineer

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Callstack

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AI
10/9/2026

How to Maximize AI SDLC? Measure the Outer Business Loop, Not the Inner Developer Loop

Matt Hargett explains how to measure AI-assisted development through the Outer Business Loop, which follows a change from its initial hypothesis to its effect on users and the business. An online platform optimization anchors his systems thinking approach to checking feature exposure, investigating mixed results, and calculating the holistic end-to-end cost of a measurable improvement.

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Matt Hargett

Consulting Principal Engineer

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AI
10/8/2026

Building Reliable AI Figma-to-Code Loops

AI-generated screens can match a Figma design while bypassing your component library. Vitaly Kuprin explains how his team built a workflow that guides agents toward existing components, blocks unsupported imports, and compares rendered screens with the design. He also shares the checks that caught misleading screenshot results and the limits of visual verification.

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Vitaly Kuprin

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AI
10/2/2026

Introducing Mobile Dev: full mobile dev tooling right in your Codex app

Mobile Dev brings live device previews, annotations, logs, and performance profiling into Codex. Explore the initial preview for iOS and Android development, with built-in agent-device support.

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Laurids Kern

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AI
10/1/2026

Apex Is Now Generally Available: Agentic Coding Model for Mobile and Web, Specialized in React

Apex is now publicly available. Built by Callstack, it brings React Native expertise to feature development, code reviews, debugging, and testing, with strong performance on Next.js tasks too. See the benchmark results, compare API pricing, explore self-hosting options, and get started with Apex in your own project.

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Michał Pierzchala

Principal Engineer

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AI
9/17/2026

Exploring Jev for AI-Driven QA with agent-device

Jev is a model from TypeSafe that chooses between predefined options instead of generating text. We paired it with agent-device to explore what that approach could mean for AI-driven QA: reading app state, selecting actions, and checking the result. We walk through our proof of concept, how the two tools work together, and a recorded run that took 14 seconds and cost $0.0023 in model inference.

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Mike Grabowski

CEO & Founder

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How AI Agents Can Cut Manual QA by 30% — cover
Article
10/30/2026

How AI Agents Can Cut Manual QA by 30%

Explore an agentic QA workflow targeting 30% less manual effort across mobile, web, and TV, with test selection, failure triage, and validation.
Building a Software Factory: The Night My Agents Waited for Me — cover
Article
10/28/2026

Building a Software Factory: The Night My Agents Waited for Me

Learn how permissions, review limits, and missing product decisions stalled two overnight coding agent runs, and how their maintainer revised the workflow.
Your AI Coding Agent Still Needs an Architecture — cover
Article
10/22/2026

Your AI Coding Agent Still Needs an Architecture

Use explicit contracts, behavior tests, and dependency checks to guide AI coding agents and review their changes through a TypeScript favorites example.
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Article
10/20/2026

Give QA Agents the Controls They Need With Appduct

Use Appduct to give AI QA agents access to app functions for setting test conditions, triggering events, and checking results with UI automation.
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Article
10/15/2026

Multi-Window React Native Apps With the Meta VR Layout SDK

Build multi-window React Native apps for Meta Quest with the Meta VR Layout SDK. Learn shared state, fallbacks, positioning, and simulator testing.
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Article
10/13/2026

Agentic Mobile Testing With e2e and agent-device

See how e2e uses agent-device for AI-driven iOS and Android tests, combines exact assertions with agent actions, and replays cached steps without model calls.
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Live Stream
Live Stream
10/15/2026

Who Left the Agents Running? React Native Software Factories

Join Kewin Wereszczyński and Szymon Chmal to explore what can go wrong in a React Native software factory overnight and the controls that keep agents on track.
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Talk
10/7/2026

Automating Mobile QA with Cloud Agents

Michał Pierzchała shows how cloud-based QA agents can test real iOS and Android user flows and bring screenshots, recordings, and logs into pull requests.
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Talk
Talk
10/7/2026

Building a Modern Navigation Library: The Hard Parts

At reactCon, Satyajit Sahoo explores the design choices behind React Navigation 8 and the challenges of creating a navigation library that works across platforms.
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Podcast
10/14/2026

When Coding Gets Faster, What Breaks Next?

Matt Hargett explains how AI moves bottlenecks across testing, deployment, infrastructure, support, and the rest of software delivery.
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Podcast
10/13/2026

MCP and Supervisor Agents in eBay's Monitoring Workflow With Leonel Candido da Silva

Leonel Candido da Silva explains eBay's agentic monitoring workflow: specialized agents, MCP, PagerDuty reports, and plans to learn from past incidents.
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Podcast
10/12/2026

AI Agent Observability With Ivana Huckova and Sven Großmann

Grafana's Ivana Huckova and Sven Großmann discuss AI agent observability, coding-agent costs, PR analytics, secret redaction, and local guardrails.
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Tutorial
March 19, 2026

The Hard Way vs. The React Native AI SDK Way: Stop Writing Custom Modules for Every Model

Learn how React Native AI uses a unified provider model to switch between cloud and on-device LLMs without rewriting application logic, enabling reliable AI experiences online and offline.
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Tutorial
March 12, 2026

Build Smarter Apps: Tool Calling & AI Orchestration Explained

Learn how on-device models in React Native can call tools, interact with external APIs, and return structured outputs you can use directly in application logic.
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Tutorial
March 5, 2026

MLC LLM + React Native: On-Device AI Without the Pain

Learn how to run third-party on-device LLMs in React Native using MLC LLM. Choose your models, run them efficiently across platforms, and keep a unified JavaScript API with React Native AI.
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Tutorial
February 24, 2026

Intelligent Fallbacks with Apple Intelligence in React Native

Learn how to use Apple’s built-in Foundation Models in React Native apps, reduce memory usage, and enable fast, fully on-device AI with React Native AI Apple.
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Tutorial
February 10, 2026

What Is the React Native AI SDK? A Complete Intro & Quickstart

Learn why on-device AI matters for React Native apps, how local LLMs behave offline, and what problems React Native AI is designed to solve from day one.
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Tutorial
January 29, 2026

Implementing an Android TurboModule with Kotlin

Learn how to implement a React Native TurboModule on Android, from the TypeScript spec and Codegen to the Kotlin implementation and package registration.
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Tutorial
January 19, 2026

Working with Different Threads in Swift TurboModules

Learn how JavaScript, native module, background, and main threads interact in React Native TurboModules, and how to use GCD queues to run async work safely in Swift.
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Tutorial
January 9, 2026

How to Add Type-Safe Constants to Swift TurboModules

Learn how to expose typed, immutable constants from a Swift TurboModule using Codegen, and get full end-to-end type safety between native and JavaScript.
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Tutorial
December 30, 2025

Adding Event Emitters to Your TurboModule in Swift

Learn how to emit native events from a Swift TurboModule and subscribe to them in JavaScript, including proper memory management and Codegen integration.
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Tutorial
December 22, 2025

Writing Your First TurboModule in Swift

Learn how to build a fully working TurboModule in Swift, integrate it with Codegen, and bridge it through Objective‑C inside an Expo app.