--- title: Making React Native actually native | daily.dev description: Expo SDK 55 aims to make React Native apps indistinguishable from truly native apps. Key additions include the @expo/ui library with real SwiftUI and Jetpack... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/making-react-native-actually-native-bdan1xdzt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Making React Native actually native | daily.dev og:description: Expo SDK 55 aims to make React Native apps indistinguishable from truly native apps. Key additions include the @expo/ui library with real SwiftUI and Jetpack... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/making-react-native-actually-native-bdan1xdzt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bdAN1xDzt.png og:image:alt: Making React Native actually native og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Making React Native actually native **[Bytes by ui.dev](https://daily.dev/sources/bytesdev)** · 4 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Expo SDK 55 aims to make React Native apps indistinguishable from truly native apps. Key additions include the @expo/ui library with real SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose components usable from JavaScript, Expo Router v55 with Apple Zoom transitions, a Stack.Toolbar API for iOS, a Colors API for Material 3 and adaptive iOS colors, and an alpha expo-widgets package for building iOS home screen widgets and Live Activities with zero native code. The newsletter also covers Bun v1.3.10's new Zig-based REPL, Solid.js v2.0 beta, Chrome's WebMCP early preview, PlanetScale acquiring Drizzle, and a JavaScript tip about avoiding await inside forEach loops. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#mobile](https://daily.dev/tags/mobile), [#react-native](https://daily.dev/tags/react-native), [#swiftui](https://daily.dev/tags/swiftui) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/making-react-native-actually-native-bdan1xdzt) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Making React Native actually native","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/making-react-native-actually-native-bdan1xdzt","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/making-react-native-actually-native-bdan1xdzt"},"datePublished":"2026-03-04T23:16:54.375Z","dateModified":"2026-03-04T23:17:13.807Z","description":"Expo SDK 55 aims to make React Native apps indistinguishable from truly native apps. Key additions include the @expo/ui library with real SwiftUI and Jetpack...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--1KxV4ohY--/f_auto/v1722860400/public/Placeholder%2007","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--1KxV4ohY--/f_auto/v1722860400/public/Placeholder%2007","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Bytes by ui.dev","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Bytes by ui.dev","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--wMrI6PMo--/f_auto/v1718347131/logos/bytesdev","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/bytesdev"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/making-react-native-actually-native-bdan1xdzt","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"javascript,mobile,react-native,swiftui","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Bytes by ui.dev","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/bytesdev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Making React Native actually native"}]} ```