v0.8.0

0.8.0 (2026-08-20)

✨ Features

• includeFontPadding prop (d73447c)
• textTransform style (#10) (802e7e3)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• android: seed LayoutParams in PlainTextView constructor to prevent setText NPE (#11) (ae22a4f)

🙌 New Contributors

• @AndreiCalazans made their first contribution in #11

v0.7.2

0.7.2 (2026-08-18)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• baseline flexbox alignment (beb21f6)
• iOS: control size drift with font scaling (8b55f7d)

📝 Documentation

• CompatText wrapper (654fe7d)

v0.7.1

0.7.1 (2026-08-17)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• ios: fix zero letterSpacing layout drift (9ccccda)
• ios: conditionally disable iOS line height clipping fix (e59f63d)

v0.7.0

0.7.0 (2026-08-12)

✨ Features

• ios: verticalAlign/textAlignVertical styles (#7) (4890949)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• ios: line height clipping (#8) (3e1e134)
• ios: tiny text misalignment vs RN Text with font scaling (cf1ae5a)

v0.6.1

0.6.1 (2026-08-08)

⚡ Performance

• android: shared layout view by @mdjastrzebski in #5
• android: font variation typeface cache by @mdjastrzebski in #6

v0.6.0

0.6.0 (2026-08-06)

✨ Features

• font variant (#2) (496d6b9)
• font variation settings (#3) (a85b6c7)
• example app improvements (0885f1e)
• example app: minor improvements (adba4cf)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• android: borders support (2743fae)
• android: text padding (e84e9cf)
• ios: enable view recycling (ceba9d0)
• ios: resolve fontFamily through the family's font names (#4) (de2f28a)
• ios: underline location with custom line height (be4e6aa)

🙌 New Contributors

• @AlshehriAli0 made their first contribution in #4

v0.5.2

0.5.2 (2026-08-03)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• android: borders support (2743fae)
• android: text padding (e84e9cf)
• ios: disable view recycling (7283b92)
• ios: underline location with custom line height (be4e6aa)

v0.5.1

0.5.1 (2026-07-29)

Bug Fixes

• ios: text wrapping discrepancy (5750492)
• react to text scale changes after render (e53081e)

v0.5.0

0.5.0 (2026-07-28)

Initial public release 🎉

PlainText renders a single string straight to the platform's native text
widget — UILabel on iOS, TextView on Android — instead of going through
React Native's own text layout pipeline.

Performance vs RN <Text>

Release builds, mean of 3 runs, measured with the example app's Performance
tab. Compare each figure against RN <Text> on the same device and text size;
see measuring.md for the method.

	iOS	Android
Memory per mounted view	15–25% lower	~33% lower
Time to mount 1000 views	13–21% faster	~30% faster

What's supported

Styles

• fontSize
• color
• fontWeight
• fontFamily
• lineHeight
• fontStyle: 'normal' | 'italic'
• textAlign
• textDecorationLine: 'none' | 'underline' | 'line-through' | 'underline line-through'
• letterSpacing
• verticalAlign / textAlignVertical:Android only, matching RN <Text>
• Every other ViewStyle prop (width, height, margin, padding, backgroundColor, opacity, …), forwarded to the native view as-is

Props

• children: plain string only
• numberOfLines
• ellipsizeMode: 'head' | 'middle' | 'tail' | 'clip'
• allowFontScaling / maxFontSizeMultiplier: accessibility text scaling
• testID, accessibilityRole, accessibilityLabel, accessibilityHint, accessibilityState, nativeID and the rest of the accessibility props
• Self-sizing: views measure to their content, so no explicit width / height is needed

Not supported

Deliberately excluded:

• Nested <Text> and mixed-style fragments: one string, one style
• onPress / onLongPress / onResponder*: wrap it in Pressable
• selectable / selectionColor / suppressHighlighting: UILabel isn't selectable by design; use RN's <Text>
• dataDetectorType: auto-linking needs attributed text spans
• textTransform: do it in JS (children.toUpperCase())
• writingDirection: RTL belongs in I18nManager, globally
• textBreakStrategy / lineBreakStrategyIOS / android_hyphenationFrequency
• onTextLayout: heavy line-metrics payload; deferred until there's demand