React Native Introduces Its Latest Version 0.60

After months and months of dedication and anticipation, quite recently, React Native which is developed by Facebook, declared the launch of its latest version 0.60. Users, on the other hand, are curious to get their hands on each and every feature that has come up with this update. Before getting down to discussing its features, let’s know what actually is React Native?

Being an open-source framework, React Native is used for making apps with JavaScript alone. And if you are familiar with 0.59 version of this framework, then you’d be happy to know that with the latest version, there are some things that have been revamped.

Here, we’ve given some of the new updates that you’ll be seeing in React Native 0.60:

Enhancements in Accessibility

With the latest version, you’ll be getting quite a few accessibility perks, and we took the liberty to enlist them:

1. Many missing roles have been included for different elements.

2. Now iOS accessibility flags and reduce motion are assisted on iOS.

3. Now onwards, accessibility actions will add callbacks which handle accessibility around user-specific functions.

4. For greater assistance in the future, the latest accessibility states API has been added.
   

Migration to AndroidX Now React Native has been migrated to AndroidX. This is hands down a noteworthy change and along with that, your native code and will have to be migrated also.

With this migration, React Native apps will have to start utilizing AndroidX on their own. Which means you can’t utilize them side-by-side in a single application. Hence, all of the app and code should be utilizing one or another.

A New Start Screen

The new application start screen has received a massive update with the latest version. As far as we know, it is believed to be more user-friendly than before. Now it displays helpful guidelines like Documents links, editing App.js, the way of starting the debug menu, and the ways of aligning with the upcoming website redesign. Lean Core Project Extractions For bringing the React Native repository to a more favorable condition, the team began the Lean Core Project. And being a part of that project, they decided to get rid of NetInfo and WebView into individual repositories.

With React Native 0.60 version; the team has finally completed their migration out of the React Native repository. And as per the community’s feedback, Geolocation has also been removed.

CocoaPods by Default Presently, React Native for iOS has come up with CocoaPods by default, which is an app-level reliance manager for Objective-C and Swift Cocoa projects. From now on, developers are advised to open the iOS platform code with the use of the xcworkspace file.

Conclusion

With all those new features listed, it would be right for us to say that React Native framework is better than any other mobile app development frameworks out there. You can give it a try, if you want to, and do let us know your experience.

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