React Native: Bug Fixes and Dev Tools Boost
Today we're diving into 6 solid commits that shipped to React Native, featuring a great accessibility bug fix, enhanced performance tracking for React Native DevTools, and some important tooling improvements. Fabrizio Duroni solved a tricky promise issue in AccessibilityInfo, while Rubén Norte successfully relanded performance tracking features for better debugging.
Duration: PT4M10S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from React Native.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: React Native
- Published: 2026-03-12T10:01:59Z
- Audio duration: PT4M10S
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Hey there, React Native developers! Welcome back to another episode. I'm your host, and wow, do we have some really solid improvements to talk about today, March 12th, 2026.
You know what I love about today's commits? They're the kind of changes that make your development life better in ways you might not immediately notice, but once they're there, you'll wonder how you lived without them. We've got 6 commits that shipped, and each one tells a story about making React Native more…
Let's start with what I think is the hero of today's batch - Fabrizio Duroni just fixed a bug that was probably driving Android developers absolutely nuts. You know that `AccessibilityInfo.isDarkerSystemColorsEnabled` method? Well, turns out on Android, it was creating promises that would just... hang forever. Never…
Fabrizio caught this because the Android implementation was doing `Promise.resolve(false)` instead of actually calling the resolve function from the promise constructor. It's one of those bugs that makes you go "oh, THAT'S why my app was acting weird!" The fix aligns it with other accessibility methods, and even…
Now, here's something that's going to make your debugging sessions a lot more…
On…