7:14Practicalities of React Navigation 5
The talk reviews practical lessons from upgrading a large app to React Navigation 5. It highlights the improved focus and blur event system, the `useFocus` hook, and experimental state persistence as useful features. The upgrade also required careful estimation and changes to how components access navigation state, with accessibility issues on Android still under investigation. The team used the component-based API to simplify separate iOS and Android navigation setups, though the work took significant effort.