During February 2026, Bernard focused on improving the stability of the Android Native Animated module within the facebook/react-native repository. He addressed a crash that occurred when the toValue parameter became null during node detachment by ensuring a fallback to the driven node’s current value, thereby preventing null pointer exceptions during animation updates. Bernard reinforced teardown safety across unmount, re-render, and navigation transitions, and introduced regression tests to cover these scenarios. His work involved Kotlin for Android development, with an emphasis on animation handling and unit testing. The changes enhanced both the reliability and test coverage of the animation subsystem.