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LeoTM edited this page Oct 5, 2025 · 7 revisions
  • [2015mar] iOS: The framework was first announced and open-sourced for iOS at the React.js Conf in March 2015.
  • [2015sep] Android: Official support for Android was released later in the same year, making it a cross-platform solution.
  • [2015] React Native Web 🌍 Began as a project by Nicolas Gallagher to create web apps using React Native components for Twitter's Progressive Web App.
  • [2016] React Native Qt 🚫 This project aimed to use Qt's QML to bring React Native to desktop environments, forked from the unmaintained React Native Ubuntu. GitHub repository activity suggests development around 2016 and 2017.
  • [2016apr] React Native Windows / UWP 🚫 Initial support for Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform (UWP) was released by Microsoft in April 2016.
  • [2017] Valence Native 🚫 A community effort to bring the React Native developer experience to desktop apps using native tools instead of a full browser environment. Its repository shows commits dating from 2017.
  • [2017] React Native DOM 🚫 An experimental, alternative web port of React Native, distinct from React Native for Web. Its repository shows commits from 2017.
  • [2018] React Native Turbolinks 🚫 A wrapper for building hybrid apps using Turbolinks 5. The project's first commit on GitHub was in 2018.
  • [2020may] React Native for Windows + macOS 🀝 Microsoft released the first official preview of React Native for Windows and macOS, aligning with the release of React Native 0.62.
  • [2020oct] React Native tvOS 🌍 Community support for tvOS, enabling apps for Apple TV and Android TV, existed by at least October 2020.
  • [2021dec] React Native Skia 🌍 The first alpha version was released, allowing React Native to use the Skia Graphics Engine as a renderer for 2D graphics.
  • [2022jun] Alita 🚫 A React framework for mobile apps based on umi.
  • [2024jan] React Native visionOS 🀝 A dedicated community platform for Apple's visionOS began supporting new command-line interface (CLI) commands, just before the visionOS operating system's official release in February 2024.

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