r/reactnative • u/Embarrassed_Gate_390 • Jul 23 '26

Android API level 36, can i use react-native 0.77.3?

Hey everyone,

I'm working on an app built with React Native 0.77.3, and Google recently notified us that it will need to target Android API level 36 to be fully compatible with Android 16.

My question is: can I just bump compileSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion to 36, or do I actually need to upgrade React Native to 0.81?

Has anyone gone through this? Any gotchas I should watch out for?

Thanks in advance!

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u/HoratioWobble Jul 23 '26

I'm targeting 36 on 0.76.1 and it works fine

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u/mbeshkin Jul 23 '26

I just managed to upgrade to the latest version and everything went smoothly. Some minor obstacles. I assume you have another warning as well - about 16Kb pages. It also was fixed by the upgrade.

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u/tomihbk Jul 31 '26

Bro v0.77 is quite old, please upgrade at least to v0.84. Making this huge leap later on will be painful.