Patrick Kabwe

My account @patrickkabwe_ was recently suspended for “inauthentic behavior.” 😥 For those seeing my profile for the first time I’m a software engineer passionate about building mobile apps with @reactnative, creating native modules, and contributing to NitroModules by @mrousavy. I love collaborating, learning, and growing alongside other developers in the community. Looking to connect, collaborate & grow! You can check out my work here 👉github.com/patrickkabwe #letsconnect #reactnative

The React Native community just got a new powerhouse of knowledge. 🚨 Margelo’s blog is now live. Expect deep dives into internals, performance, architecture, tooling, case studies, vision camera, and pixel-perfect mobile engineering. Built by engineers pushing the ecosystem forward. If you’re serious about React Native, check it out

@peterpme adb shell pm clear <package_name>

My favorite react native android adb commands: - adb logcat --pid=$(adb shell pidof <pkg>) - adb shell pm list packages | grep <app> - adb shell pidof <pkg> - adb install -r app.apk - adb exec-out screencap -p > screen.png - adb pull /sdcard/<file> ./ What am I missing?

Ever wondered why animations on #reactnative's new architecture were so laggy? We partnered with the @discord team, found the bottlenecks, and helped make their mobile app feel buttery smooth. Here’s the before/after 👇

@acooldora Will be present in the next one

Running a coworking session on the Rork server ❤️ Join us and let’s build together! discord.gg/MGuDrb6BwJ

In collab with @swmansion, VisionCamera V5 switched from 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚝-𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎-𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚜-𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚎 to 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚝-𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎-𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚜. You can now mutate Reanimated SharedValues directly inside a Frame Processor. Instant UI feedback from worklet-side detection!

@RiteshRk14 use iphone 7 LOL

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@lauridskern Always on point!

It was super fun to create the landing page for this! Congrats on the launch V5 is a game changer 🔥

It's finally done. I just released VisionCamera V5, the biggest update to VisionCamera ever, and my biggest open-source project ever (1/5) 🥳🎉🍾

@margelo_com @bluesky margelo.github.io/react-native-n… We even have documentation that makes it easy to replace your API client with NitroFetch.

We plugged our 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚝-𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎-𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚛𝚘-𝚏𝚎𝚝𝚌𝚑 library into @bluesky's app and configured prefetching - it took us a whole 3 minutes and made the app load 500000000000000000000 zeptoseconds faster! 🤯 Try Nitro Fetch today! 📲

been working on split bill improvements in @spenzyapp , added a compare feature so we can check & copy without jumping between apps.

npm i react-native-morph-card Pure native animations, works well with navigation Simple API Animates size, borderRadius, position & rotation in a single native transaction Works with live components What should I add next?

In the next version of Uniwind Pro: • Support for React Native 0.85 🚀 • New blur based theme transition system 🤩

What is a city without citizens???

In the latest release of Nitrogen, you will be able to mix cross-platform languages (like C++) with platform languages (like Swift/Kotlin) for autolinking HybridObjects. This makes setups like GPU pipelines much easier - iOS uses Metal via Swift, Android uses Vulkan via C++ 📚

Just rewrote the pipeline to Vulkan; now it's 2x-4x faster than the "old" OpenGL implementation. I think I finally hit the performance ceiling 😅

Hermes finally has native support for stripping erasable TypeScript annotations (link to commit in next tweet).

@RiteshRk14 Feel better soon!

Hospital is best place To code☠️. You have 100k dollars setup around

Starting with Kotlin 2.4.0, Kotlin Flows can be exported and consumed as Swift AsyncSequences 🥳 Kudos to @mMaxy85 and the team! github.com/GuilhE/SwiftEx… #KMP #kotlin #swift #coroutines #swiftConcurrency

𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁-𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲-𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗴 is a familiar choice for managing .env variables in React Native. It processes your .env files at build time and embeds config values into native platform code (like BuildConfig on Android and Info.plist on iOS). These values are then exposed to JavaScript via React Native’s native module system. 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁-𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲-𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗴, however, takes this a step further by using Nitro Modules, which provide a statically compiled binding layer to JSI for direct, high-performance access. This architectural difference enables superconfig to access config values significantly faster—benchmarked as 18x faster—because config values are embedded directly into compiled native binaries at build time and accessed without the usual native module invocation overhead. ➡️ 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲: Config values are compiled into native .so binaries. ➡️ 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆: Compiled C++ binaries make it harder to extract sensitive config values compared to plain JS bundles or BuildConfig files ➡️ 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗣𝗜: Uses a familiar interface almost identical to react-native-config for easy adoption ➡️ 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 .𝗲𝗻𝘃 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁: Reads and processes your .env file during build time—no extra config formats or complexity ➡️ 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: Config values can also be accessed directly from Swift (iOS) or Kotlin (Android) code ➡️ 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗽: Just install, link pods on iOS, and Android works out of the box with your existing .env files So, how does it work? 1️⃣ At build time, your .env file is converted into a C++ header (configGetter.hpp) 2️⃣ Nitro Modules expose these native config values directly to JavaScript via JSI 3️⃣ This eliminates runtime overhead and enables much faster, synchronous access If you want your React Native app’s config to be faster, more secure, and accessible natively with minimal fuss, react-native-superconfig is worth checking out. #ReactNative #ReactNativeDev #MobileDevelopment #JavaScript #TypeScript #PerformanceOptimization #NativeModules #EnvVariables #ConfigManagement #OpenSource #AppSecurity