What’s New in React Native 0.63?

Discover what’s new and what’s impacted by this release

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React Native 0.63 RC0 was released a few weeks ago and brings us some new features that are really exciting.

Native Colors

There are two new things here: PlatformColor and DynamicColor.

PlatformColor allows users to use the native colors of the device from either iOS or Android.

DynamicColor allows users to configure colors depending on the appearance mode of the mobile (light mode/dark mode).

Here is an example of how to use it that combines both:

<View
  style={{
    backgroundColor: DynamicColorIOS({
      light: PlatformColor("systemBlueColor"),
      dark: PlatformColor("systemRedColor"),
    }),
  }}
/>

LogBox

LogBox is enabled since React Native 0.62 is in beta mode. You can enable it by adding require('react-native').unstable_enableLogBox()…