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Reanimated 4 is New-Architecture-only and moves worklets into a separate react-native-worklets package. Here is the real migration off Reanimated 3 for a gesture-heavy app: the package split, the new CSS-style API vs the imperative one, and what RN 0.85's Shared Animation Backend lets you stop hand-rolling.
Mobile EngineeringGoogle Play flagged your AAB for the 16 KB page size requirement? Here is how I diagnose which native .so libraries are misaligned with check_elf_alignment.sh, bump the NDK and AGP to fix my own code, and handle the React Native dependencies that are the usual culprits before the 31 May 2026 enforcement.
Mobile EngineeringReact Native 0.85 fully removed the bridge on 7 April 2026, so the New Architecture is the only option. Here is how I audit dependencies against the Directory, which libraries still crash, and the realistic effort to rescue a 0.7x Paper app.
Mobile EngineeringGoogle Play makes target API 36 (Android 16) mandatory on August 31, 2026. The version bump is easy. The forced edge-to-edge display and predictive back changes that silently break your React Native layouts are not. Here is the triage checklist and EAS verification routine I run before the cutoff.
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