Tips & Tricks From The Ultimate Guide to React Native Optimization 2025

Presented
React Universe Meetup
Speaker
Oskar Kwaśniewski
Software Developer
@
Callstack

In this talk from Callstack’s React Universe Meetup in San Francisco, Oskar Kwaśniewski shares hard-won performance insights from the Ultimate Guide to React Native Optimization 2025. If you’re building React Native apps today, and want them to stay fast tomorrow, this is a must-watch.

Packed with practical takeaways, Oskar walks through how to:

  • Flatten views for a more efficient native hierarchy
  • Use React 19’s new use and useOptimistic hooks
  • Avoid FPS drops with JS thread hygiene
  • Leverage the React Compiler for automatic memoization
  • Actually use RN DevTools to find and fix bottlenecks

You’ll also see common pitfalls with TTI tracking, learn why crypto-heavy tasks shouldn’t live in JS, and hear how a 12% speed boost was hiding in Android builds all along.

What you’ll walk away with:

  • Modern tools for debugging and measuring app performance
  • Simple tweaks that yield measurable speed gains
  • Insight into where performance wins (and losses) really come from

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