0.29.0

Thanks to 97 contributors who put 218 commits into this release!

Special thanks to @satya164 for writing this release notes!

Breaking changes

General

• Kill NavigationReducers (3a8b50a) - @hedgerwang
• NavigationExperimental - Clean up NavigationStateUtils (67002e8) - @hedgerwang
  • Remove the logic that lets NavigationStateUtils accept empty value as input and return a new state.
  • Remove the method NavigationStateUtils.getParent, NavigationStateUtils.set.
• NavigationExperimental - Remove prop onNavigate (fb0007d) - @hedgerwang
• NavigationExperimental - Define the generic render prop for NavigationTransitioner to render scenes (3a62314) - @hedgerwang

Android

• Change the application template (49f20f4) - @foghina

  • Plugins which pass activity reference in the constructor need to be updated to extend ReactContextBaseJavaModule use getCurrentActivity to get the activity reference. This change is backward compatible.
  • Apps need to be migrated to use the latest template

  Migration instructions for apps

  1. Create a new file MainApplication.java in the same folder as MainActivity.java
  2. Update it to match - https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/0.29-stable/local-cli/generator-android/templates/package/MainApplication.java and move your customisations from MainActivity.java to this file
  3. Update MainActivity.java to match - https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/0.29-stable/local-cli/generator-android/templates/package/MainActivity.java
  4. Add android:name=".MainApplication" in the <application /> section of AndroidManifest.xml. It should now look like,

  <application
  +   android:name=".MainApplication"
      android:allowBackup="true"
      android:label="@string/app_name"
      android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
      android:theme="@style/AppTheme">

  1. Clean gradle cache - ./gradlew clean

  The experience might vary according to the level of customization you've made. Check this commit to see how UIExplorer and MoviesApp were migrated - dcc2abc

• Remove support for password property and only use secureTextEntry (f3507f9) - @dmmiller

• Remove the Profiler Option in RN Android Dev Menu (4b19db3) - @lebronJ

iOS

• Automatically clip subviews when removeClippedSubviews prop is used (1048e5d) - @nicklockwood
• Remove deprecated methods from StatusBarIOS (4de616b) - @javache

General

Bug fixes

• Fix left button moving in instead of fading in in NavigationBar (8731494) - @dragonwong
• Fix incorrect import reference for emptyFunction in SwipeableListView (2fd537c) - @glawson
• Fix onLayout support in <TextInput> (92926f9) - @paulshen
• Don't clobber user-defined environment variables (402e7ea) - @vkarpov15
• Fix polyfillLazyGlobal to work with allowTopLevelThis = false (f9e26b3) - @janicduplessis

New features and enhancements

• Add log-ios and log-android commands (cf97c9a) - @vitalis
• Show stacktrace in YellowBox (8d03857) - @skv-headless
• Add StyleSheet.absoluteFill convenience constant (e79f5d7) - @sahrens
• Changed version of React dependency to ~ (592d5fb) - @bestander
• Open sourced KeyboardAvoidingView (8b78846) - @nicklockwood
• Allow CameraRoll to export videos (7357ccc) - @corbt
• Clear Debug Console on Reload JS (b03a725) - @yungsters
• Make InteractionManager tasks cancellable (be09ccc) - @sahrens
• Add support for reverse flex directions on Android and iOS (d43e0db) - @feichngr
• Add support for lineBreakMode prop on <Text> (c03b166) - @skv-headless
• Fix an issue where scrollview wouldn't unclip its cells (1fcd73f) - @majak
• Make module IDs deterministic when bundling (62bb09d) - @davidaurelio

Android

Bug fixes

• Enable Double R shortcut to reload JS when redbox is shown (4959b21) - @lebronJ
• Fix deletion layout animations to work with custom view managers (49a5fe4) - @astreet
• Fix crash when Modal is displayed as a result of touch handling code (837aafd) - Olivier Notteghem
• Properly validate layout animation config (d4e7c8a) - @janicduplessis
• Fix potential NPE in layout animation deletion code (bb9ed2d) - Olivier Notteghem
• Fix bug where UIOperations aren't executed after hosting Activity is paused (eef03fd) - @astreet
• Remove iOS platform check for running devtools (1b40db7) - @kageurufu
• Fix dialogmodule crashing with no fragment manager in onHostResume (bf79352) - @foghina

New features and enhancements

• Open source permissions module (b7352b4) - @andreicoman11

iOS

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug where layoutSubviews was called continuously for scrollview (329c716) - @nicklockwood
• Explicitly set default background color in RCTTextView (1fce891) - @bnham
• Fixed MapView's draggable annotation (993a928) - @nathanajah
• Handle the case where redirect URL is relative (39eca05) - @maartenschumacher
• Fix unbale to scroll in image cropper (13dfb62) - Wenjing Wang
• Correctly passes localNotification to app on wakeup (57d4523) - @corbt

New features and enhancements

• Add getScheduledLocalNotifications (5b4b027) - @joshuapinter
• Implement CSS z-index for iOS (d64368b) - @nicklockwood
• Add support for native animations on iOS (19e2388) - @buba447
• Prevent images from flickering when component is reloaded (c8f39c3) - @nicklockwood
• Implemented automatic IP detection for iOS (8c29a52) - @nathanajah
• Support {min,max}{Width,Height} on RCTView (78b8929) - @javache