Expo

You know you can build locally right? In a recent blog post Beto shares the steps necessary to build your Expo apps locally: https://lnkd.in/gDnqJ_qR This is important for anyone who is running into budget constraints with cloud builds. Please keep in mind that you can also replace builds with OTA Updates when you are not changing native code!

Major React Native upgrades used to eat a quarter. Hipcamp compressed it into a sprint. Their team needed to move to New Architecture + Expo SDK 54 with 100+ dependencies in play, ~40 of them outdated or incompatible with New Arch. The traditional estimate: 2-3 months of dedicated engineering time. The actual time: about two weeks. They did it with AI agents handling the tedious work: dependency audits, version resolution, upgrade PRs, and build validation. ◆ Scoped upgrades to only what New Arch and 16KB Android required ◆ Replaced abandoned libraries with Expo-maintained equivalents ◆ Ran subagents in parallel, each with its own context per dependency ◆ Opened PRs with QA steps, affected screens, and EAS builds attached Engineers reviewed and shipped. No months lost to documentation archaeology, and fewer production errors after the upgrade than before it. The full writeup from Armaiz Adenwala covers their exact workflow, prompts, and rollout plan. https://lnkd.in/gTfWM6dF

Build a real app for a real business. In one day. That's the theme for our hackathon with STRV in Prague on May 1st. If you're in the area we would love for you to join the hackathon! We've got some exciting talks lined up for the night before: Seth Webster, Joe Ryan, Adam Zvada, and David Mokos. https://lnkd.in/g8s96iuP

Quick status on Expo Go for iOS, SDK 55. The build is in App Store review. The current TestFlight external beta build expires on Wednesday, April 22. We're working to get the new build out before then, but it depends on the review timing. If you're on SDK 55 and the review hasn't completed by Wednesday, you have two options: ◆ Create your own build of Expo Go using the EAS CLI: `eas go` ◆ Install Expo Go in an iOS simulator Expo Go for SDK 54 remains the default on the App Store, so SDK 54 workflows aren't affected. *Expo Go for SDK 54 is unaffected. Here's a link for creating your own build of Expo Go: https://lnkd.in/g_7JMAge

Seth is different. He can zoom all the way out and still see every layer. Product. Business. Team. He knows what to say. And what to build. And how to build it. What's most impressive: he delivers all of that perspective with warmth and joy. It's infectious. We're lucky to have him. Seth Webster's note about why he made the move to Expo is a small, delightful sample of what it's like to work with him. Check it out: https://lnkd.in/gbRbMVSM

We're hosting Expo's monthly SF AI Demo Night at Incident.io's office on April 23rd. Douglas Lowder will demo Expo TV. He's building for Apple TV, Android TV, and Fire TV with the same React Native codebase you already know The lineup: incident.io - helps engineering teams respond to and learn from incidents, minimize downtime, and ship with confidence Nozomio - helps developers give the right context to their AI agents by indexing millions of documents Pylon - AI-native support for B2B that triages issues and surfaces risk so teams can focus on high-impact work Nooks - AI sales assistant platform that automates the busywork so reps can focus on selling 🚪 Doors at 5:30 🎤 Demos at 6:00 🍕 Food + drinks all night Come through on April 23rd https://lnkd.in/gdjPrxzB

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AI can write the code, but it cannot ship the app. For the last several years we've been obsessed with making it smoother to build, submit, and maintain mobile apps. AI assisted coding has just made our work more meaningful. If you're a builder and you're wresting now with the challenges of getting your app to users, keeping the app fresh, and driving revenue - we HIGHLY recommend that you attend AppJS Conf at the end of May. You will hang out with some of the most elite app shippers in the world. The people at this event are building beautiful apps at massive scale. They can help you. This event will make you a better builder. We'd love to see you there. https://appjs.co/

📱 If you're going to vibe code a mobile app make sure you do it right. Historically our audience was all cracked React and React Native devs. But the times they are a changin'. We have plenty of non-technical builders signing up for Expo every day. Which is great. We are thrilled to welcome you. And we need to start making content (like the video below) that shows you how to successfully build mobile apps with Expo and AI. This video from Alberto Moedano demonstrates the best fundamentals for shipping a mobile app with Expo and Claude Code. https://lnkd.in/g2f9RJnf