⬆️ Upgrade dependency react-native-view-shot to v5

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
react-native-view-shot	4.0.3 → 5.1.0

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Release Notes

gre/react-native-view-shot (react-native-view-shot)

v5.1.0

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Highlights

iOS

• iOS 17 compatibility: migrated to UIGraphicsImageRenderer (fixes deprecated APIs).
• New XCTest target with releaseCapture + encoding tests.

Android

• Fix: snapshotContentContainer now correctly captures off-screen content.
• Expanded JUnit coverage for static / package helpers.

Windows

• Working example-windows on RNW 0.76.17 with full demo screen suite (Basic, FS, FullScreen, Image, Modal, Rendering, ScrollView, StyleFilters, Transparency).
• Native module fixes (RNViewShotModule, ViewShot, Helpers).
• New native C# unit tests (RNViewShot.Tests).
• CI: real Windows build + dotnet unit tests on GitHub Actions, app package uploaded as artifact.

Examples / Tests

• New style-filters repro screen (#​578).
• New snapshotContentContainer ScrollView capture demo.
• All Detox e2e specs wired into CI via Jest testMatch.

Full Changelog: gre/react-native-view-shot@v5.0.1...v5.1.0

v5.0.1

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Patch release fixing an Android crash that hit users capturing GL / SurfaceView / TextureView roots directly.

What changed

• fix(android) Guard applyTransformations against NullPointerException and ClassCastException when the captured view is itself a non-ViewGroup (e.g. a SurfaceView captured directly with handleGLSurfaceView: true). The original parent walk ran past root and either dereferenced a null parent or tried to cast a ViewRootImpl to View. The walk is now extracted into a walkAncestors helper that short-circuits when child == root, stops on null, and stops on non-View ViewParent. Closes #​488. (#​631)
• test(android) First JUnit + Mockito unit tests for the library, wired into the existing build-android CI job via ./gradlew :react-native-view-shot:testDebugUnitTest. Covers the three failure modes plus happy paths. (#​631)

Contributors

• @​gre

Full changelog: gre/react-native-view-shot@v5.0.0...v5.0.1

v5.0.0

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First stable release of the 5.x line. This is a major version bump covering the New Architecture migration, a project-wide cleanup, and a long list of cross-platform fixes accumulated since v4.0.3. If you're upgrading from 4.x, please read the Breaking changes section below.

Highlights

• New Architecture (Fabric + TurboModules) supported across iOS, Android, Web, Windows.
• React Native peer dep bumped to >=0.76.0. Tested up to 0.84.1.
• JS/TS layer migrated to TypeScript (src/ is now .ts/.tsx).
• Android capture path hardened: view.draw() and view resolution now run on the UIManager queue with a hard timeout, cancellation, exception propagation, and a CAS-based bitmap pool handoff so canvas-backing bitmaps cannot be recycled mid-draw.
• iOS updated for RCTScrollView removal in RN 0.84 (runtime UIScrollView detection covering both Paper and Fabric), plus a Privacy Manifest.
• Web got several fixes around captureRef, JPG output, releaseCapture, and CORS image handling.
• Example apps rebooted with 11 organized test screens; new Expo example added; new Detox + Playwright E2E coverage; CI now builds downloadable example APK.

Breaking changes

• Minimum React Native is 0.76.0. Lower versions are no longer supported.
• The library is now built from TypeScript. The public API is unchanged but generated .d.ts files now ship alongside lib/ (the package.json main still points to lib/index.js, the react-native field points to src/index.tsx).
• Internal RNViewShot.web.js was renamed to RNViewShot.web.ts. Metro and webpack still resolve *.web.ts automatically.
• The Android module exposes a TurboModule spec under src/specs/NativeRNViewShot.ts. The runtime detects old vs. new arch via global.__turboModuleProxy so consumers do not need to choose explicitly.

What changed

New Architecture / RN 0.84

• #​580 Stack update: RN 0.81.4 + Fabric + TurboModules, TypeScript migration, example reboot, CI bootstrapped.
• #​587 Upgrade example to React Native 0.84.1 and fix the removal of RCTScrollView on iOS by switching to runtime UIScrollView detection (subview walk + respondsToSelector:) that works under both Paper and Fabric.
• #​621 Restore Android autolinking and runtime on RN 0.84 with the new arch enabled.
• #​620 Fix react-native.config.js so the library is correctly linked on Android.

Android

• #​628 (refactor(android)) UI-thread-safe view capture with hardened bitmap lifecycle:
  • view.draw() now runs on the UIManager queue instead of the capture executor.
  • runOnUiThreadBlocking posts work to the main looper with a hard 5s timeout (UiThreadBlockTimeoutException) so a stuck UI thread cannot hang capture forever.
  • State machine (STATE_QUEUED/RUNNING/DONE) with CAS between caller (timeout) and runnable (entry) so exactly one side owns cleanup.
  • Bitmap recycling split between caller and UI runnable via AtomicReference<Bitmap> + getAndSet(null) so the canvas-backing bitmap cannot be returned to the pool while view.draw() is still drawing into it.
  • handler.post() return value checked, Throwable thrown inside the UI runnable is captured and rethrown on the caller thread (surfaces as promise.reject(...) instead of crashing the UI thread).
  • Layer-marking scaffolding for translucent ViewGroup subtrees (kept inert in practice, see PR for context).
• #​630 (fix(android)) Resolve view on the UIManager queue before posting capture work to the executor (cherry-pick of #​556 by @​wfern), with a try/catch so currentActivity == null (app backgrounded) or a throw inside resolveView rejects the promise instead of crashing the UIManager queue.

iOS

• #​587 ScrollView capture works on RN 0.84 again: detects UIScrollView via subview walk and respondsToSelector:@​selector(scrollView) so both RCTScrollViewComponentView (Fabric) and legacy RCTScrollView (Paper) are covered with no compile-time __has_include branches.
• #​600 Add iOS Privacy Manifest (PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy).

Web

• #​599 Fix captureRef crash on web by skipping findNodeHandle (not supported).
• #​601 Enable useCORS for html2canvas to fix cross-origin image capture.
• #​602 Fix JPG format and base64 preview.
• #​604 Fix releaseCapture crash on web (now a no-op since there are no temp files to clean up) and add a ViewShot component example.

Examples, tests, CI

• #​580 Example app rebooted with 11 organized test cases (Basic, Media, Advanced).
• #​603 Add unit tests for the JS/TS layer.
• #​605 Add a dedicated Expo example app for testing with Expo + the New Architecture.
• #​617 New CI workflow: build a downloadable example APK on every PR.
• #​627 New "RENDERING CORRECTNESS" test card screen for visual regression checks across borderRadius/overflow:hidden, transforms, z-index, scrolled ScrollView, padding+bg+border, nested opacity, and Skia comparator.
• Detox iOS E2E + Playwright web E2E running on CI.
• #​629 Refresh example apps lockfiles to in-range latest.

Docs

• #​536 Update Expo installation instructions (thanks @​amandeepmittal).

Dependency updates

Numerous dependabot bumps in example/example-web/example-windows/example-expo (lodash, minimatch, fast-xml-parser, node-forge, picomatch, handlebars, brace-expansion, follow-redirects, flatted, terser-webpack-plugin, copy-webpack-plugin, serve, serialize-javascript). The library itself has no new runtime dependencies.

Closed PRs of note (superseded or already-on-master)

These were closed during this release cycle in favor of the consolidated work above:

• #​531 (UiThreadUtil) superseded by the surgical UI-thread moves in #​628 + #​630.
• #​540 (manual recursion view-cuts-off rewrite) superseded by the view.draw()-preserving approach.
• #​563 (web releaseCapture throwing) addressed on master.
• #​584 (RN 0.84 ScrollView iOS) addressed on master via #​587.

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:

• @​wfern
• @​amandeepmittal

Full changelog: gre/react-native-view-shot@v4.0.3...v5.0.0

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