Evan Albert from Meta joins Mazen and Robin on the episode! Evan reveals how React Native developers can now build apps for Meta Quest using the tools they already know and love. From infinite screen space to multi-panel experiences, this episode explores the exciting frontier where React Native meets VR.

Show Notes

1. RNR 337 - Meta Quest for React Native with Marcus Leyendecker
2. Blog Posts & Guides
   1. Getting Started with Expo on Meta Quest (Callstack)
   2. What You Can Build with React Native on Meta Quest (Callstack)
   3. Using Expo Libraries on Horizon OS: A Guide to Compatibility (Callstack)
   4. Learn Once, Write for VR: A React Native Showcase for Meta's Horizon OS (Callstack)
   5. How to Release a React Native App on the Meta Horizon Store (Callstack)
   6. How to Add Meta Quest Support to Your Expo App (Software Mansion)
   7. React Native Meta Horizon OS Documentation (Callstack)
   8. Meta Spatial Simulator Blog Post
3. Videos
   1. React Native on Quest Walkthrough — Coding with Beto
   2. React Conf Announcement — Live Stream
   3. Callstack Interview
4. Tools & Packages
   1. Expo Horizon Core Plugin (npm)
   2. Expo
   3. Expo Go on Meta Quest

Connect With Us!

• Robin Heinze: @robinheinze
• Mazen Chami: @mazenchami
• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red!

Infinite Red is an expert React Native consultancy located in the USA. With over a decade of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter, core React Native contributors, creators of Ignite and Reactotron, and much, much more), Infinite Red is the best choice for helping you build and deploy your next React Native app.

Mazen and Robin catch up on five months of React Native and Expo releases, covering the biggest updates in 0.82–0.84 and Expo SDK 55. They talk through the move to the new architecture, Hermes V1 becoming the default, faster builds, better developer tools, and AI updates that make upgrading a little less of a headache.

Show Notes

• React Native 0.82 – A New Era for the New Architecture
• React Native 0.83 – Stable New Architecture and React 19.2 Updates
• React Native 0.84 – Hermes V1 by Default and Legacy Architecture Cleanup
• Expo SDK 55 – React Native 0.83, React 19.2, and New Project Template
• “Pay It Forward” – You Never Know How Much It Helps (YouTube Short)
• Expo Skills – Official AI Agent Skills for Expo and React Native

Connect With Us!

• Robin Heinze: @robinheinze
• Mazen Chami: @mazenchami
• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red!

Infinite Red is an expert React Native consultancy located in the USA. With over a decade of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter, core React Native contributors, creators of Ignite and Reactotron, and much, much more), Infinite Red is the best choice for helping you build and deploy your next React Native app.

Fernando Rojo, Head of Mobile at Vercel, joins Mazen and Robin to discuss building the V0 mobile app with React Native and Expo, including tech stack decisions, performance optimization, and how the project pushed Vercel to improve its native tooling.

Show Notes

• How Vercel Built the v0 iOS App with React Native
• Leveling Up React Native with Vercel Agent Skills
• AIX: AI Chat Primitives for Native Apps from Vercel

Connect With Us!

• Fernando Rojo: @fernandorojo
• Robin Heinze: @robinheinze
• Mazen Chami: @mazenchami
• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red!

Infinite Red is an expert React Native consultancy located in the USA. With over a decade of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter, core React Native contributors, creators of Ignite and Reactotron, and much, much more), Infinite Red is the best choice for helping you build and deploy your next React Native app.

William Candillon sits down with Mazen and Robin to show how React Native Skia enables smooth, high‑end animations, shaders, and UI effects in React Native. The episode also dives into WebGPU and the future of 3D and advanced graphics on mobile.

Show Notes

• William Candillon's YouTube Channel
• React Native Skia Tutorials
• ShaderToy
• TypeGPU Documentation
• WebGPU and Skia for Web Graphics (Shopify Engineering)
• William Candillon on X
• WebGL Samples
• Shader's Gambit
• Introducing Skia Graphite (Chromium Blog)

Connect With Us!

• William Candillon: @wcandillon
• Robin Heinze: @robinheinze
• Mazen Chami: @mazenchami
• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red!

Infinite Red is an expert React Native consultancy located in the USA. With over a decade of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter, core React Native contributors, creators of Ignite and Reactotron, and much, much more), Infinite Red is the best choice for helping you build and deploy your next React Native app.

Mazen and Robin chat with Krzysztof Magiera about React Native Screens, the "most important library you'll never use directly," from its origin as a fix for memory-hogging stacked screens to the exciting V5 rewrite built exclusively for the new architecture.

Show Notes

• RNR 309 - React Native IDE with Krzysztof Magiera
• RNS Website
• RNS GitHub
• Blog: Introducing Fabric to react-native-screens

Connect With Us!

• Krzysztof Magiera: @kzzzf
• Robin Heinze: @robinheinze
• Mazen Chami: @mazenchami
• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red!

Infinite Red is an expert React Native consultancy located in the USA. With over a decade of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter, core React Native contributors, creators of Ignite and Reactotron, and much, much more), Infinite Red is the best choice for helping you build and deploy your next React Native app.

Mazen and Robin sit down with Kræn Hansen from ElevenLabs to break down what Node API actually is and why it could be a game-changer for React Native library authors who want to write native modules once and use them everywhere, plus what still needs to happen before it's ready for prime time.

Show Notes

• Announcing Node-API Support for React Native (Callstack)
• Kræn Hansen's React Universe Talk
• Kræn Hansen on Callstack's livestream
• Host package: React-native-node-api
• Hermes implementation discussion

Connect With Us!

• Kræn Hansen: @KrænHansen
• Robin Heinze: @robinheinze
• Mazen Chami: @mazenchami
• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red!

Infinite Red is an expert React Native consultancy located in the USA. With over a decade of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter, core React Native contributors, creators of Ignite and Reactotron, and much, much more), Infinite Red is the best choice for helping you build and deploy your next React Native app.

Mazen and Robin welcome back Cedric van Putten to discuss Expo Launch, a new tool that automates deploying React Native apps to the App Store. Learn how Expo is streamlining certificates, screenshots, and submission workflows.

Show Notes

• Expo Launch
• Cedric van Putten's blog post: Introducing Expo Launch
• Matt Palmer's blog post: From idea to app with Replit and Expo
• Expo's AI Strategy

Connect With Us!

• Cedric van Putten: @cedric_dev
• Robin Heinze: @robinheinze
• Mazen Chami: @mazenchami
• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red!

Infinite Red is an expert React Native consultancy located in the USA. With over a decade of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter, core React Native contributors, creators of Ignite and Reactotron, and much, much more), Infinite Red is the best choice for helping you build and deploy your next React Native app.

In this episode of React Native Radio, Robin and Mazen are joined by Marc Rousavy to break down transforming packages to Nitro and why it’s a big deal for high-performance native modules. They dig into Nitro’s origins, how it stacks up against TurboModules and Expo, and what’s coming next for VisionCamera.

Show Notes

• NitroModules
• ChatGPT Nitro Module Builder
• Marc's screencast: How to build a Nitro Module
• Frank Calise's Awesome Nitro Modules
• RNR 310 - Nitro with Marc Rousavy
• Margelo's Discord

Connect With Us!

• Marc Rousavy: @mrousavy
• Robin Heinze: @robinheinze
• Mazen Chami: @mazenchami
• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red!

Infinite Red is an expert React Native consultancy located in the USA. With over a decade of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter, core React Native contributors, creators of Ignite and Reactotron, and much, much more), Infinite Red is the best choice for helping you build and deploy your next React Native app.

In our popular year-end recap, our hosts are all back tother and joined by guest Josh Yoes to review the biggest React Native developments of 2025! They cover major releases, the shift to the new architecture, React 19 support, and how tooling and performance evolved across the ecosystem.

Show Notes

• Blog Post | React Native Wrapped 2025 by Joshua Yoes

Connect With Us!

• Josh Yoes: @JoshuaYoes
• Jamon Holmgren: @jamonholmgren
• Robin Heinze: @robinheinze
• Mazen Chami: @mazenchami
• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red!

Infinite Red is an expert React Native consultancy located in the USA. With over a decade of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter, core React Native contributors, creators of Ignite and Reactotron, and much, much more), Infinite Red is the best choice for helping you build and deploy your next React Native app.

Mazen and Robin are joined by fan-favorite Taylor Desseyn to discuss how the React Native job market has shifted in 2025 and why community matters more than ever. They break down what skills companies want now and how developers can stand out in a tighter market.

Show Notes

1. RNR 302 - Landing a Job with Taylor Desseyn
2. Thelma & James (The band Taylor worked with that went viral on TikTok)
3. Torc
4. Torc's Community (Discord)
5. Infinite Red Community (Slack)
6. Taylor’s Keynote 

Connect With Us!

• Taylor Desseyn: @tdesseyn
• Mazen Chami: @mazenchami
• Robin Heinze: @robinheinze
• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red!

Infinite Red is an expert React Native consultancy located in the USA. With over a decade of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter, core React Native contributors, creators of Ignite and Reactotron, and much, much more), Infinite Red is the best choice for helping you build and deploy your next React Native app.

Mazen and Jamon chat with Simon Grimm about his move from Ionic pioneer to React Native creator. Simon highlights key cross-platform trends, why React Native’s future looks exciting, and how he supports developers through Galaxies.dev.

Show Notes

• Simon Grimm's podcast, Rocket Ship: https://podcast.galaxies.dev
• Zero to Hero, Launch Your First Real Mobile App in 30 Days: https://galaxies.dev/missions/zero-to-hero 

Connect With Us!

• Simon Grimm: @schlimmson
• Mazen Chami: @mazenchami
• Jamon Holmgren: @jamonholmgren
• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red!

Infinite Red is an expert React Native consultancy located in the USA. With over a decade of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter, core React Native contributors, creators of Ignite and Reactotron, and much, much more), Infinite Red is the best choice for helping you build and deploy your next React Native app.