Upgrade to RN v0.60 #3548
Description
Released last week:
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/2019/07/03/version-60
First we'll want to complete the upgrade to v0.59 (done!)<_< >_>, aka #3399.
From the release notes, notable changes include:
- Migrated to AndroidX -- this will take some work on upgrading.
- [edit:] CocoaPods. See Set up CocoaPods #3983.
- There's a new recommended upgrade process.
- (I should read the rest of the release notes more completely -- getting this down quickly for now.)
Also:
- Flow v0.98.
The bulk of this work is now done. Details in #3548 (comment) and in #4133 .
Some known changes that we already take advantage of in #4133:
- We can start using "autolinking": Build: Use "Autolinking" (RN >= v0.60) #4026
- We upgrade react-native-webview, fixing in particular Apple warning about UIWebView (2020-11 deadline) #4093.
Other known changes that this will open up the option to do -- in particular I went through this thread and followed all the backlinks to related issues:
- We can start trying Hermes: Android: Use Hermes #4131
- We can probably upgrade react-native-unimodules: Upgrade to a react-native-unimodules without privacy-sensitive dead code #4091
- EDIT (Chris): We're currently holding off on this till RN v0.61, when that upgrade should just work; see here.
- That may also let us drop a bit of Gradle code: Upgrade to RN v0.60 #3548 (comment)
- We'll gain the feature we need for solving Handle Android 8 Autofill #2772.
- The react-navigation v3 upgrade Upgrade react-navigation to v3 #3649 becomes a bit simpler.
- We'll gain support for Android's "Downloadable Fonts" feature, which will give us what we need to fix Solution found: Newer Unicode emojis don't render on older Android devices #3885.
- We'll gain a better way to help the user to the permissions menu on iOS: iOS: Link to System Preferences for app permissions when necessary #3814
Known cleanups we should probably follow this with:
- Replace unmaintained dep
react-native-orientation. #4118 react-native-orientation
Oh and 🙂 :
- Now we can proceed to RN v0.61! Upgrade to RN v0.61 #3781