React Navigation v8 Crash Course - Liquid Glass, Tabs & More

Everyone talks about Expo Router, but plenty of companies still run React Navigation directly, and v8 is the biggest update in years. You get liquid glass tabs on iOS 26 out of the box, material colors on Android, and TypeScript support that actually works. I build an app from scratch in the video so you can see every step, no file-based routing involved.

If you want full control over your navigation (or the jobs that require it), this is the crash course.

What's inside

• Set up React Navigation v8 with Expo SDK 55 and TypeScript
• Static vs dynamic configuration, and when each one makes sense
• Stacks and bottom tabs with liquid glass and material colors
• Create a development build with npx expo prebuild (Expo Go won't work here)
• Clean auth flows that separate logged-in and logged-out stacks
• Test on iOS 18 too, since liquid glass only renders on iOS 26

Resources

CourseReact Native course

Go deeper in the Expo Router section: 115 minutes covering auth flows, deep linking, and liquid glass tabs.