Samuel
@samuel.fm
coming to a bluesky app near you 🔜
Expo@expo.dev· 1 May 2025
🙌 SDK 53 is out now! It's a chunky release so take your time combing through the post below. Couple highlights: ◆ The New Arch is now default everywhere ◆ Edge-to-edge is default for all android projects ◆ expo-background-task (no more background-fetch) ◆ expo-maps alpha! expo.dev/changelog/sd...
Expo SDK 53 - Expo Changelog
Learn about the changes and how to upgrade
expo.dev
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Samuel
we’re going to get 53/0.79 landed and stable first, so that we have the freedom to toggle the new arch on/off in case something comes up. but if all goes well, yes, soon! the final piece are falling into place
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hailey
a couple of upstream reanimated bugs they are aware of and shipping a new RN version for, but hopefully once that stuff lands and we clean up a couple of our own new bugs (mostly styles that look off now) we should be able to!
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hailey
i was scrolling on an android the other day and it felt actually really good, pretty stoked about this.
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Brent Rager
Real question: I did some iPhone and Android app years ago and the biggest pain was the productization to get it ready for release. Icon sizes, screenshots, and more. Is that still a pain or is there a lot of tooling these days?
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Samuel
was an enormous PITA for me too lol. Idk if there’s tooling out there - maybe? I couldn’t find it
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Samuel
Expo handles the icon stuff for you. It’s the store screenshots that are the real pain
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