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Expo SDK 56 is out 🙌
◆ Expo UI is stable on iOS and Android
◆ iOS builds 16% faster, plus another 20% on EAS from precompiled community libs
◆ Android cold starts 40% faster
◆ Expo Router decoupled from React Navigation
◆ Inline native modules: write Swift and Kotlin right next to your TypeScript
◆ Hermes v1 by default
◆ Bytecode diffing on by default (~58% smaller OTA updates)
◆ iOS Widgets stable
◆ React Native 0.85 + React 19.2
It's been two months since SDK 55, and we packed in everything we could fit. Your iOS build times are going to thank you. Full changelog ↓
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💅 Want to get really good at building apps with AI and Expo UI?
@zoontek from our SDK team is giving an Expo UI focused talk at the React Native London Meetup on July 16th.
Save your seat and tell your friends: guild.host/events/react-nati…
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We're looking for someone unusual.
You build and ship Expo apps. You also love business. And you're interested in a role where you'll learn how to grow an explosive SaaS startup.
If this is you, let us know. @_colinhunt was the pioneer of this role at Expo. His impact has been massive and we want to hire one or two more people with similar skills.
You can read about the role and colin's experience in the blog below. ↓
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📚 You built an app. Now help the world’s best mobile teams build theirs.
✏️ @_colinhunt, @joe_d_ryan
expo.dev/blog/you-built-an-a…
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Expo retweeted
Great books always feel like the letters themselves are alive.
I’ve had this idea in mind for a while, and it was so fun to prototype with React Native Skia.
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Observe is the fastest-growing product we've ever shipped at Expo.
Turns out a lot of teams want to see how their app starts up, navigates, and updates in production (without bolting on a heavyweight observability stack).
Of course, Observe is available for free right now while it's in beta. That is obviously contributing to the adoption. But we're stoked about the usage and we want ALL the feedback.
try.expo.dev/observe-beta-bl…
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The 𝝠 Expo community in Ghana is impressive.
This is our second time speaking at one of their meetups and we're looking forward to creating more events and experiences to support Ghana in the future.
Thanks for hosting us @AgbenyoOfficial and @ExpoGhCommunity 🙏
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Expo retweeted
We have started working on expo-app-intents module, which allows you to add AppIntent (Apple Intelligence, App Shortcuts, Siri) support to your Expo app.
Coming to Expo SDK this fall.
github.com/expo/expo/pull/47…
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A lot of you are building Expo apps on the side. And you work for companies that either:
• don't have a mobile app
• have a super old mobile app that doesn't work
We've had enough of these conversations that we decided to write a post to help you talk your boss into building an app. It's down here ↓
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📚 How to make the case for a mobile app at your company
✍️ @DannyQueso
If you think your business needs a mobile app read this post and let us know if it helps you sell the app internally.
expo.dev/blog/how-to-make-th…
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What's new in Expo SDK 56? Widgets, Expo UI, Router decoupling from React Navigation... nitter.app/i/broadcasts/1yKAPPQOg…
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❗️Live Expo Widget Demo Today - join the livestream in a couple ours to watch @__ubax__ live demo expo widgets.
Here's the link: piped.video/live/FOFPOEIyeag…
Working on the demo right now...it's coming together.
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We're livestreaming tomorrow about SDK 56. Save a seat and bring your questions!
This is going to be a friendly, interactive livestream. We want to demo important new capabilities like Expo UI and Expo Widgets. We want to show you what's possible with Expo Router. And we want to hear from you.
Where are you blocked? What else should we build?
Come hang out.
piped.video/live/FOFPOEIyeag…
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\Try it out and let us know what you think. There is a channel in Discord for Observe feedback.
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The SDK 56 livestream is this Thursday at 11am PT btw.
@notbrent, @llamaluvr, @__ubax__ and others will join the stream to demo new capabilities and take all your questions.
Come hang out with us! If you ask a great question we'll send you an Expo shirt 👕
piped.video/live/FOFPOEIyeag…
Expo SDK 56 is out 🙌
◆ Expo UI is stable on iOS and Android
◆ iOS builds 16% faster, plus another 20% on EAS from precompiled community libs
◆ Android cold starts 40% faster
◆ Expo Router decoupled from React Navigation
◆ Inline native modules: write Swift and Kotlin right next to your TypeScript
◆ Hermes v1 by default
◆ Bytecode diffing on by default (~58% smaller OTA updates)
◆ iOS Widgets stable
◆ React Native 0.85 + React 19.2
It's been two months since SDK 55, and we packed in everything we could fit. Your iOS build times are going to thank you. Full changelog ↓
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TV's need apps too.
In this blog from the Vega team @amazon you'll learn their approach to building TV apps with Expo TV.
If you're building TV apps can you let us know? We'd love to see some examples of your work.
dev.to/amazonappdev/to-share…
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👨🎨 We're sharing a formula for making vibe-coded apps look professional.
It's a deconstruction of the "science of design" and we think it will help you coach your agents into mobile app design that brings polish to your apps.
The formula and examples are in the post below ↓
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📖 How to apply professional design principles in AI app development
✍️ Nicolas Solerieu (our designer)
Here are the eight principles of design:
◆ Contrast
◆ Hierarchy
◆ Alignment
◆ Proximity
◆ Repetition
◆ Balance
◆ White space
◆ Unity
In the blog post you'll learn how to use these principles to steer agents toward unique, balanced, polished designs.
expo.dev/blog/how-to-apply-p…
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Clean iOS builds in SDK 56 are dramatically faster, with zero config.
Historically, every Expo and React Native library on iOS compiled from source on every build. SDK 56 changes that. Many Expo modules ship as precompiled XCFrameworks through npm and link directly instead of rebuilding every time.
It is on by default (locally and on our Build service). No migration steps.
The numbers on a clean build of a stock Expo app:
◆ Precompiled React Native core: about 44% faster.
◆ Plus prebuilt Expo modules: about 50% faster vs from source.
◆ Plus prebuilt third-party libraries: about 65% faster vs from source.
This is also the start of a bigger shift: moving the Expo iOS ecosystem off CocoaPods (going read-only in December 2026) and toward Swift Package Manager. SDK 56 focuses on coexistence, so existing apps keep working while the ecosystem modernizes underneath.
The post covers how it works and the architectural challenges behind it: modular framework boundaries, breaking Swift and Objective-C cycles, VFS overlays, and auto-generated Package.swift files.
Read more: try.expo.dev/precompiled-lin…
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