A React Native developer's perspective on the iPhone 17 Pro and what its new features mean for app developers. Covers iOS 26 Liquid Glass design adoption (compatible back to iPhone 11, expected to reach 90%+ of users quickly), on-device LLMs and Apple Intelligence APIs (available on iPhone 15 Pro and newer, currently ~25% of active devices), and the Whisper speech recognition model for React Native via C++ bindings. Advises developers to start adopting Liquid Glass now while maintaining iOS 18 compatibility, and to experiment with on-device AI using progressive enhancement (detect capability, fall back to external APIs when unsupported).
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