Expo SDK 52: Our largest release ever!

[@galaxies_dev]

Best Expo release so far 🎉

[@3nth]

YOO sogar du hier haha

[@ExpoDevelopers]

Totally agree.

[@CatalinMironDev]

Expo 52 is great! Thanks team

[@ibrahimkouma6751]

I love Expo, but upgrading from SDK 51 to 52 is truly one of the hardest challenges a React Native developer can face. I spent hours upon hours trying to resolve issues related to navigation, Gorhom, and other packages. While I appreciate Expo, this release contains numerous bugs that can make a developer feel discouraged-almost like dealing with bare React Native. For now, I’ve decided to stick with SDK 51 until things improve. There are many blog posts from developers struggling to upgrade to SDK 52. Previous Expo upgrades were straightforward, but this one is far from ideal. We’ll wait until SDK 52 becomes more stable. Perhaps Expo could create a blog post or video demonstrating how to upgrade a functional app, addressing the most commonly used packages. Our codebase has evolved since SDK 42, and until now, upgrading was never such a difficult process.

[@flexbox_]

> I spent hours upon hours without expo you can spend __months__ upgrading a react native stack so i will say it's just part of the job.

[@najlepszyinformatyk1661]

@@flexbox_ o man, that's the point

[@swikarcodes]

My upgrade RN 0.68 upgrade to RN 0.71 was a hell's road trip, i dont know what could be worse than that, hope expo by default is way better, since it is the preferred way nowadays.

[@LoboSueltoOK]

Same HERE. I will stay in SDK 51 too. You are not alone

[@danielgra]

I'm so hyped about the server components functionality!!

[@ExpoDevelopers]

It's magic.

[@tetogomez1866]

One of the things that I hate is that the Expo app always forces me to upgrade the SDK version in order to continue using it!

[@najlepszyinformatyk1661]

Thanks for the awesome work. Expo Team and SWM are amazing!!!

[@IntrovertWanderlust]

That's amazing! Congratulations on this major release!

[@mojajojajo]

Great job team! Keep up the good work

[@ronaldhunter5894]

We are living in a golden age. Things have gotten so much easier and now i can confidently make expo modules and never have to expo to bare bones again. What a time to be alive :D

[@reze_dev]

I don't know react native and expo. Just saw this video on my recomendation. But this is a huge upgrade.

[@bijan3s]

Expo really is great and help me alot, I hope this release fix previous bugs

[@jacobhenry7223]

Thanks Alot expo team

[@tr3m0r1ty]

The only Expo 52 video I was waiting for

[@chien31203]

It's kinda weird because the expo go app (latest version till Nov20) on my android renders the app icon for the splash screen instead of the splash screen, on ios, the splash screen is so tiny

[@randalherndon]

Great work people. Plugins on plugins on plugins but hey it's all worth it in the end.

[@SoftIceCreamMan]

i love expo more than i love my children

[@josephmgift]

Expo is good

[@calebcadainoo]

Your wife must hear this 🤣🤣🤣

[@I-CREATE07]

What a loser 😅

[@radicletech]

I ...I love expo more than i love my job

[@ouhoy]

Chill bro

[@zerodegreecoder]

This is banger🎉

[@collinsk8754]

🎉 Great work 🎉

[@ezragach]

I hope you guys fixed the flash on video mode while using the camera.

[@naumanjelani742]

I'll give new release a try by updating my existing apps to SDK 52. Best release!

[@kasper369]

Can you created a tutorial of notification and google map, why it's changing

[@rstuv-0]

looking forward to it. 2 years ago i ditched react-native because of performance. I hope it'll get better

[@Attosym]

Navigation literally broke right after updating the app((( It’s impossible to pass parameters through setParams in expo-router(

[@canardeur8390]

I also got many regressions upon upgrading to SDK 52, including navigation issues.

[@najlepszyinformatyk1661]

@@canardeur8390 github issues are more than welcome

[@charleslongwe9589]

good job

[@yaronlevy]

Amazing!

[@turkishpeter2]

I cant seem to find the blogpost mentioned in the getting started section. Can someone help me out please? Thanks :)

[@nurammarnaufal7351]

i have problem in sdk 52 with expo-network cant connection status always false (true in android) and barcodescanner wot working on ios again

[@ok_eric]

tbh a lot of changes with unexpected behaviors, not stable for now but we will be there

[@martinlesko1521]

Expo 52 is a stable release wdym

[@thespacejedi]

​@@martinlesko1521 it's not actually stable if you use it in production. So many bugs.

[@martinlesko1521]

@@thespacejedi which ones

[@thespacejedi]

@@martinlesko1521 performance issues in debug mode. Modal not working on Android deep in react navigation stack. Some of custom native modules broke in mysterious ways. Personally had to open a few PRs upstream.

[@GreatTaiwan]

so when do we have the production release? where we can actually be competing with flutter performance release ?

[@webwiz459]

I recently upgraded my Expo project to SDK 52, but I'm facing an issue on Android (in production mode): the navigation bar shakes rapidly, making it impossible for users to interact. It only happens with the APK build, not in development. Has anyone else encountered this?

[@ExpoDevelopers]

Hey webwiz - can you create an issue with a minimal reproducible example of this problem for us to look at?

[@luciddreamville]

I had a lot of problems with google ads mob hopefully they fixed that aswell

[@julian35584411]

This looks amazing! Too scared to update a rather large app from SDK 51 though :(

[@ExpoDevelopers]

Don't be scared! This is basically how it should go: x.com/hirbod_dev/status/1859570309268963529

[@sachithrrra]

nice!!

[@terjeoseberg990]

I have been developing my app on my laptop and running it on my devices and on friend’s devices using debug mode where all the console log output shows up on my laptop. I now want to create a release candidate that’s uploaded to to my Expo account so that people can test it without involving my laptop. I’m having trouble finding a tutorial that explains how to accomplish this. Have you already created a tutorial for this? Are you willing to create one? Basically I’m not ready to release my app to the App Store, and I’d like to continue adding features and debugging my own local copy without changing the copy that my testers are using.

[@snbwcs]

Does he have 2 cameras built into his glasses ? 🤔 (Good job on all the new features, can't wait to try it !)

[@prohacker5086]

I'm starting Expo now, i was waiting for this "use dom"

[@adsalihac]

Nice update

[@DevelopmentAltıniş]

Do you have any thoughts about an NFC add-on?

[@andryniaina6903]

My project broke with this upgrade!! So many incompatible libraries!!

[@saltogbuji5045]

Upgrade was easy and smooth... Nothing broke on my code

[@igwekennedy3033]

please do migrate to 52 yet if you are using an older version they are a lot of issues especially when using axios you get weird errors like [TypeError: cyclical structure in JSON object] LOG error: cyclical structure in JSON object

[@MegaHunter-d3y]

Ugh i remember having this issue. The worst i ever had.

[@AliYasir5247]

nice glass

[@saralagab4036]

expo notifications dont work in this version?

[@shashanoid]

Broke my entire app

[@FlintCode]

That damn shutter sound I swear! 😂

[@Albi91vl]

Expo still has no package for otp autofill on android using sms retriever api and the only one package out there doesn't support the new architecture. We will stick on expo 51 for now. There are also many packages out there that have no support for the new architecture. Maybe expo 52 new arch by default will push more devs to update their packages. For the moment we are stuck on 51

[@CodeAdvocate]

Splash screen is not working or maybe not showing in the new Expo 52 SDK

[@steel1719]

got the same problem. The splash screen icon is fetching from the app icon and I can't change anything.

[@greendsnow]

There's tauri 2 now... What's the purpose?

[@WhatsNextFam]

Can we get updated tutorials?

[@ExpoDevelopers]

Are you looking for a specific tutorial?

[@WhatsNextFam]

New Splash screen config and features and maybe a small tutorial on expo vid and another small one on react compiler. Im a visual learner and seeing official tutorials from you guys helps! The more the merrier!!

[@newadClass]

finaly expo release sdk 52

[@lfellidev]

There's a lot of bugs. The splash screen doesn´t resize and expo-updates is broken.

[@abdellahcodes]

Can't really tell if your glasses are taking a video of me 😂

[@bharathraj4545]

Anyone facing issues with 3d gltf loading with expo.

[@mohtasimb62]

Does the react compiler mean that hooks such as useMemo, useCallback, etc. are useless now?

[@SatoshiNakamono]

Please build Expo Reader for epub, pdf...

[@najlepszyinformatyk1661]

Can't you just use webview for it?

[@SatoshiNakamono]

@@najlepszyinformatyk1661 If webview can solve the problem, why we have Expo Video, Audio...

[@SatoshiNakamono]

​@@najlepszyinformatyk1661 No, I can't. The same reason why they build Expo Video, Audio...instead of using webview.

[@antoinecoignac]

You need to fix some issues when building and run for android on windows.

[@accabi3262]

Add Live activities for iOS!!!! Please!!!!

[@martinlesko1521]

LFG

[@misalambasta]

More releases, more bugs bcz of less quality. Less release more quality and stable release. Let's see in which part it will fall.

[@martinlesko1521]

@@misalambasta plz no second angular

[@Zer0.]

please improve expo intent launcher

[@oliverloops.]

Yooo 👋👋

[@zerefdev]

7:42 fetching data directly from the database in the react component doesn't seem like a good idea, isn't the app fully running on the client device or am I missing something?

[@amit-eq3ro]

Everything is broken nativewind is not working properly, statusbar not working properly etc please fix these ASAP

[@martinlesko1521]

File them a bug on their GitHub

[@martinlesko1521]

wasn't Nativewind broken before as well?

[@roksprogar]

nativewind is working well for me (but I am at version 4)...if you upgrade, make sure to change all the config files as well

[@vitalyzema8518]

Largest and... buggiest release ever! Can't even build empty project on win

[@martinlesko1521]

@@vitalyzema8518 which issues do you have?

[@ExpoDevelopers]

We'd be happy to investigate your bug! Can you please create an issue with a minimal reproducible example?

[@PanosPitsi]

Can’t install node properly 💀

[@vitalyzema8518]

@@ExpoDevelopers yes, but it closed automatically by expo-bot. Maybe because expo-bot thinks it react-native issue

[@alisanan9090]

Now rewrite everything in Rust.

[@3nth]

The upgarding was really shit i just wanna say that. Half of my images broke and gorhom bottom sheet library got downgraded to a version from a few years go

[@AliMukhtar53]

same thing I'm experiencing, Axios just broke on iOS,

[@Malcolm777-i]

This is problematic

[@shawwalmuhammad]

I got similar issues, before npx expo-doctor was great, now with latest release it gives several more details and somehow not as seamless as before

[@Sebastian_1190]

Yes! The upgrade was so tough.. took so long to get everything working again.

[@I-CREATE07]

Same thing bro I had to change so many things in my app 😢