v0.27.0

Thanks to 87 contributors who put 210 commits into this release!

Special thanks to @satya164 for writing this release notes!

General

Breaking changes

• Kill NavigationLegacyNavigator (ef44781) - @hedgerwang
• Kill NavigationExperimental Containers (14eb427) - @ericvicenti
• Kill NavigationView (c3714d7) - @hedgerwang

Deprecations

• Keyboard events should now be registered via Keyboard module:

// previously
const { DeviceEventEmitter } = require('react-native');
DeviceEventEmitter.addListener('keyboardWillShow', func);

// on 0.27.2 and newer
const { Keyboard } = require('react-native');
Keyboard.addListener('keyboardWillShow', func);

// 0.27.0 & 0.27.1
const Keyboard = require('Keyboard');
Keyboard.addListener('keyboardWillShow', func);

New features and enhancements

• Animated: Implement toJSON method of Animated (17f0807) - @wusuopu
• Make RefreshControl properly controlled by JS (9aa37e8) - @janicduplessis
• Add SwipeableListView (052cd7e 9b1a3c7 2a7f6ae) - @fred2028
• Expose a new prop transition for scene renderer. (55c3086) - @hedgerwang
• Add support for custom files in BugReporting (610cfdc) - @lexs
• Add "Open file" button to elements inspector (f203c5d) - @frantic
• Add transform-react-jsx-source to react-native preset (858643d) - @frantic
• Fork NavigationAnimatedView to NavigationTransitioner (7db7f78) - @hedgerwang
• Merge rnpm into react-native (149d0b9) - @grabbou 🎉

Bug fixes

• Protect against JS module call race condition while initializing react instance (a1ba091) - @astreet
• Fix propType check for NavigationCard. (b1cd1cb) - @hedgerwang
• Fix RefreshControl race condition (8fbce30) - @janicduplessis
• NavigationExperimental: didFocus event should fired after transition finishes. (8975bb8) - @hedgerwang
• Fix RefreshControl on initial render will not beginRefresh when refreshing (cac5ce3) - @aforty
• Fix a bug where NavigationPropTypes.SceneRenderer was a plain object (0e997c6) - @joenoon
• Prevent SwipeableRow bleed (5146775) - @fred2028
• Fix 95% of WindowedListView jumpiness (5e91a2a) - @sahrens
• Fix Android flash and iOS juttering (62e588b) - @fred2028
• Fixed incorrect rows reported in onChangeVisibleRows (0aea74e) - @dmueller39

Android

New features and enhancements

• Add pagingEnabled to HorizontalScrollView (a3146e4) - @dmmiller
• Open sourced SwipeRefreshLayoutRecordingModule (457e348) - @bestander
• Implement returnKeyType/returnKeyLabel (dd8caf4) - @Bhullnatik
• Add progressViewOffset to RefreshControl (f7ce0c1) - @UnoDeTantos
• Ability to disable/lock the android ViewPager scroll from props (31250ad) - @kevinejohn
• Fix race condition when clicks are received on react root view and react context is pending (fd37666) - Olivier Notteghem
• Add FpsListener to React Scroll Views (b67d4a2) - Nathan Spaun
• Upgrade to OkHttp3 (6bbaff2) - @AndrewJack
• Fix NetworkingModule construction with interceptors (921d0de) - @bestander
• More helpful error message when react-native start is forgotten (bc634ea) - @codeheroics

Bug fixes

• Fix Android picker controlling (0cd2904) - @spicyj
• Make Modal Status Bar Translucent (191d278) - @jemise111
• Increase the stack size for the React queue on older Android phones (d4f6f61) - @nikki93
• Update the timestamp we send in touch events to be the more accurate (f2c1868) - @dmmiller

iOS

New features and enhancements

• NavigatorIOS: Expose interactivePopGestureEnabled property (4d2c72b) - @rigdern
• Make the root view background color explicit (fa5d1fe) - @shaneosullivan
• Callback with image height and width from IOSImagePicker (df40f48) - @thans
• Enable views to be nested within <Text> (fe5c0d2) - @rigdern
• Add Copy Stack button to Red Box (5047f6f) - Chris Evans

Bug fixes

• Fix distanceFilter caching for LocationObserver (2310494) - @jrichardlai
• ScrollView: Always fire onScroll event for the resting scroll position (deef8aa) - @rigdern
• Fixed crash due to inserting a nil object into an array in Image loader (ed1ee9b) - @nicklockwood
• Provide correct animation function for hiding keyboard (03edc75) - @rigdern
• Fixed NativeEventListener deregistration (516bf7b) - @nicklockwood