LEVERAGE YOUR ANDROID KNOWLEDGE TO BOOST YOUR TEAM'S VELOCITY WITH REACT NATIVE

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Pinterest integrates React Native into existing Android and iOS apps by adding a third JS repo, symlinked for bundling, and packaging native RN libs as Maven artifacts. Engineering builds a React Native Event Bridge, shares the native image cache, and bridges API client, logging and experiments. An A/A experiment shows parity in performance with native screens. Integration adds ~2–3 MB per architecture and ~10k methods; four production React Native screens exist and over‑the‑air updates are under consideration.

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1. 0:00Introduction and background
2. 3:33Why React Native at Pinterest
3. 7:24Greenfield vs brownfield apps
4. 10:55Technical integration overview
5. 14:31APK size and method count impact
6. 17:01Rendering React Native screens
7. 18:26Type safety with Flow
8. 19:54Native and JS bridge setup
9. 21:03Bridging native APIs to JS
10. 22:46Design system and UI components
11. 24:32Navigation between native and RN
12. 27:00Localization for React Native
13. 29:06Bridging frameworks and logging
14. 30:09Evaluation and A/A experiments
15. 31:54Adoption and current usage
16. 32:56Future technical improvements
17. 33:59Q&A and closing remarks

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