Benjamin Komen

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@expo @kadikraman Gave it a try and looks good so far! Excited for some of the features on the roadmap.

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@expo @_philpl Is the release cadence of Expo releases increased? I thought it was twice a year.

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@jamonholmgren I think this should be fairly easy for most Expo cng apps. For us the only challenge was some dependencies that weren’t supporting the new architecture. A good time to get your dependencies and replace ones that are slow to adopt changes or basically unmaintained.

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@Baconbrix I gave this a try but I couldn't figure out how it would benefit me 😬
- Simulator in separate browser window (not in terminal with Claude Code), no real integration benefit
- serve-sim does not seem to support interaction, it just streams the screen

What am I missing?

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@expo Pretty nice! Mine went from ~7 min to 4:50. Already using ccache and also not building for x86 since that’s unnecessary

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@hxxwhite This is really cool! Reminds me a bit of what @GroundControl showed on Appjs Conf a few years ago

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@DriveTeslaca I think this makes sense, there will be enough new EVa in the coming years that they can facilitate

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@blazejkustra_ Are you suggesting to use that new icon package for large SVGs that are like full screen illustrations? So they are packaged like a font? Mm 🤔

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@betomoedano Has been there since September 2025 I think? I thought https://t.co/Bz0Hc9280B supports it for React Native but apparently not (yet) @saulsharma @ChmalSzymon

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@gabimoncha @hewad_mubariz @expo For now yes, but I think the plan is to eventually build abstractions that work for both iOS and Android expo UI, the first example is https://t.co/7jGnEQ7usU

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@KenSimCity @downtownvan How are you going to make it family friendly?

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@SzymonRybczak @satya164 Would your tool just focus on testing or also (AI) development? In both cases you want an agent to verify/test that a certain feature works or a bug exists and provide proof with a screen recording.

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@betomoedano @openclaw @nishanbende Haha I asked it something similar for Expo UI updates

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@betomoedano Looks good! Great inspiration for what I’m building

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@claudeai Nice work for web apps, hopefully mobile apps will be next?

One thing I wish would be implemented is that AI agents can verify animations and graphics look good. Because otherwise you still need a human in the loop.

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@GroundControl Similar experience, it had no problem creating a solar system with planets and a bright sun. But then I tried a house with a roof on it with solar panels and it kept doing it wrong, the roof was inverted and the panels floating mid air.

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@_philpl @expo @amanhimself Haha, thanks!

[Benjamin Komen @BenjaminKomen]

@expo UI is getting pretty good, you can create really nice SwiftUI components that look exactly like e.g. the iOS Settings app. I played around in this repository (https://t.co/Ev73TYk2Fx) and created a PR to improve the documentation (https://t.co/MVCyyG9dqK)
cc @amanhimself

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@RobertJBye I can code up a GitHub branch, create PR but then lack the ability to view and act on code review comments. The ‘gh’ tool is not installed.

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@amanhimself @expo Ah thanks!!!