React Native: Monorepo Magic and Text Selection Revival
Today's episode covers 9 commits focused on making React Native play better with monorepos and improving text handling. The biggest story is a crucial Gradle fix for monorepo setups and the revival of text selection with the new prepared text layout system. Plus, we see continued migration to modern Flow syntax and some helpful developer tooling improvements.
Duration: PT4M1S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from React Native.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: React Native
- Published: 2026-02-18T11:09:38Z
- Audio duration: PT4M1S
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Hey there, React Native developers! Welcome back to another episode. I'm your host, and wow, do we have some interesting changes to dive into today. February 18th brought us 9 solid commits that show the React Native team really listening to the community's needs.
Let's jump right into the biggest story of the day - monorepo support just got a whole lot better! Thibault Malbranche landed a fantastic fix that addresses a real pain point many teams have been hitting. You know how React Native's Gradle setup was hardcoded to look for properties at a specific relative path? Well,…
Here's what was happening: React Native was only checking for gradle.properties at exactly "../../android/gradle.properties" - super rigid, right? But in monorepos, your structure might be "packages/my-app/android" or something completely different. Thibault's fix is elegant - it now checks the parent Gradle…
Speaking of infrastructure, we've got another Android improvement from Fabrizio Cucci around clipToPadding behavior. This one's more under the hood, but it's about making sure Android's input systems can properly identify which views are clipping their content. It's behind a feature flag for now, but it…
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