Expo SDK 56
Expo SDK 56 has been released, featuring updates to React Native and React. This version introduces stable APIs for Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI, enhancing cross-platform development. Additionally, new universal components and integration with native state primitives are included to improve UI functionality.
- ▪Expo SDK 56 includes React Native 0.85 and React 19.2.
- ▪The Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI APIs in Expo UI are now stable and ready for production use.
- ▪Universal components are introduced, allowing developers to create cross-platform UI without file splitting.
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | DEV.to (Top) |
| Canonical URL | https://dev.to/expo/expo-sdk-56-5eb5 |
| Publication time | Thu, 21 May 2026 18:21:13 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-21T18:31:35.691Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-21T18:31:35.691Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 1258232) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Dan for Expo Posted on May 21 • Originally published at expo.dev Expo SDK 56 #reactnative #mobile #expo #javascript Originally published on expo.dev/changelog By Alan Hughes, Brent Vatne Today we're announcing the release of Expo SDK 56. SDK 56 includes React Native 0.85 and React 19.2. Thank you to everyone who helped with beta testing. Expo UI is now ready for production As of SDK 56, the Jetpack Compose (Android) and SwiftUI (iOS) APIs in Expo UI are stable.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at DEV.to (Top).