Learn practical React Native techniques to instill a 'premium feel' across the entire user journey. We'll cover implementing polished animations and intuitive gestures, designing effective navigation patterns, optimizing perceived performance, and utilizing haptics meaningfully. Discover strategic considerations for crucial touchpoints like onboarding flows and how/when to present information like sign-up or subscription options. Gain actionable insights from top-tier apps to significantly boost your app's overall quality and user satisfaction.

Explore the essentials of Rive, followed by a hands-on session creating and implementing animations in a React Native app.

It’s common to create animations and feel that something is still missing. The motion is there, but the app doesn’t quite feel alive—and it’s easy to settle for that. This talk explores how to move beyond defaults and craft immersive animations by combining Reanimated and Skia. We’ll dive into simple yet powerful techniques for refining motion, optimizing performance, and adding a few "secret ingredients" to surprise your users.

With the React Native New Architecture becoming the new default there are still many questions about its purpose. Through the example of Reanimated's Layout Animations we will se how the architecture redesign benefits library maintainers, and how it affects end users.