React Native: Weekly Recap - Infrastructure & Code Quality
React Native focused on infrastructure improvements this week with 30 commits addressing deprecated API removal, feature flag cleanup, and build system enhancements. Notable changes include removing legacy Android components and optimizing event dispatch performance.
Duration: PT2M35S
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- Show: React Native
- Published: 2026-05-17T10:00:52Z
- Audio duration: PT2M35S
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This is your React Native Weekly Recap for May 10th through 17th, 2026.
Zero PRs merged, 30 additional commits this week.
**Infrastructure & Cleanup**
The team made significant progress removing deprecated Android APIs. Mathieu Acthernoene removed the deprecated getWindowDisplayMetrics API from DisplayMetricsHolder, cleaning up methods marked for removal since version 0.87. Peter Abbondanzo removed the fixFindShadowNodeByTagRaceCondition feature flag after its…
Nicola Corti continued the Kotlin migration effort, converting YogaNodeJNIBase from Java to Kotlin - the last hand-written Java source file in the Yoga core library. He also removed the legacy UIImplementation class, which had been reduced to non-functional stubs following the legacy architecture removal.
**Build & Tooling**
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