{"id":19669,"date":"2025-08-14T13:45:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T11:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pagepro.co\/blog\/?post_type=insight&#038;p=19669"},"modified":"2025-08-14T13:45:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T11:45:49","slug":"react-native-0-81-android-16-support-safeareaview-deprecation","status":"publish","type":"insight","link":"https:\/\/pagepro.co\/blog\/react-tldr\/react-native-0-81-android-16-support-safeareaview-deprecation\/","title":{"rendered":"React Native 0.81: Android 16 Support &#038; SafeAreaView Deprecation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a sneak peek a few weeks ago, we finally got the full <strong>React Native 0.81 release<\/strong>, and it\u2019s a big one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First of all, <\/span><b>Android 16 (API 36) is now supported by default<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. To comply with Google\u2019s edge-to-edge UI requirements, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SafeAreaView<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has been deprecated. Users can opt into alternatives, like <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">react-native-safe-area-context<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the React Native team advises migrating your <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SafeAreaView<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> project before it\u2019s deprecated in the future.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Predictive back gestures<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are enabled by default as well. If your app uses custom native code for back handling (for example, overriding the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">onBackPressed()<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> method), manual migration of your code or temporary opt-out might be necessary.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>JavaScriptCore<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (JSC) engine is now a community-maintained package, released separately from React Native. Apps needing JavaScriptCore should switch to the community package.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 0.81 update also introduced <\/span><b>precompiled iOS builds<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a result of cooperation between Meta and Expo. You can enable precompiled RN iOS builds, cutting build times by up to 10\u00d7.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To use them, when running <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pod install<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, specify the following variables: <code>RCT_USE_RN_DEP=1 RCT_USE_PREBUILT_RNCORE=1 bundle exec pod install<\/code><\/span>. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Note that you <\/span><b>won\u2019t be able to debug and step into React Native&#8217;s internals<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Likewise, prebuilds are not supported in Xcode 26 Beta, and to use them, you have to set the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SWIFT_ENABLE_EXPLICIT_MODULES<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> flag to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NO<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in your Xcode project.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">React Native 0.81 is a great example of cooperation between Meta and RN community. We\u2019re looking forward to seeing what the future might bring for our favorite mobile framework.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reactnative.dev\/blog\/2025\/08\/12\/react-native-0.81\"><b>full release notes<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Need help with your React Native app? <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pagepro.co\/services\/react-native-development?swcfpc=1\"><b>Contact us.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subscribe to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frictionlesspost.com\/\"><b>Frictionless<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the weekly newsletter by our CEO, <\/span><b>Chris Lojniewski, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and stay on top of the news.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":19670,"template":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>React Native 0.81: Android 16 Support &amp; SafeAreaView Deprecation - Pagepro<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"React TL;DR helps you decide which content is worth your time. 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