Expo

👏 Trying to narrow down the highlights from 2024 is a harrowing endeavor. But Jon Samp, our Head of Product, knows that sometimes you have to look back before you can look forward. Enjoy this buffet of 2024 𝝠 Expo highlights and a sneak peek at our plans for 2025. https://lnkd.in/gBGZdf3y

⚡️ Instantly add  home screen widgets to your React app with Evan Bacon's new `npx create-target` command! Everything is possible with Expo Router 🔥

📺 The team at Marathon understands that your users are your best marketers. So they empower their users to share the MarathonTV app using three simple/important techniques: • Tie your content to a shareable URL • Equip your users with attractive and eye-catching images • Target specific platforms to optimize for Learn how to get your users to share your app from the blog post published today: https://lnkd.in/esQsU_ui And thank your to Josh Pensky for guest authoring the blog!

👨💻 We haven't said much about 𝝠 Expo Router UI but we see some of you talking about it on the socials. expo-router/ui is a submodule of the expo-router library. It exports components and hooks to build custom tab layouts (rather than using the default React Navigation navigators provided by expo-router). https://lnkd.in/g2KGHr73

💅 We added Rollouts to EAS Update because we want people to have a safe way to incrementally deploy an update that you aren't 100% sure is going to go perfectly well. We want you to be able rollout an update to 1% of your users and then watch it to make sure it works they way you want. There's a short video demo here in the post. And here is a link to the documentation: https://lnkd.in/gkq3bKaU

🆕 During our recent Launch Party we introduced new environment variables capabilities. And now we've shipped some new env vars guides: ◆ Conceptual info about using env vars with EAS services and how to manage them: https://lnkd.in/ghCsA75K ◆ A guide on how to create and use env vars with EAS Build and EAS Update: https://lnkd.in/gyUNZt8B

⏰ It's time to re-evaluate 𝝠 Expo. If you evaluated Expo for a project a couple years ago and found it lacking in some way then it's time for a re-evaluation. That's what Yushan Fernando did recently and this is his story ↓ https://lnkd.in/gvzHAzw2

🤔 To use Expo Go, or a development build, that is the question. It's an important decision because the tools have different intentions. So Beto Moedano put a blog AND a video tutorial together to help you out. 📚 Expo Go vs Development Builds: Which should you use? ✏️ Alberto Moedano You just created a new Expo project and it opens in Expo Go. But you’ve heard that development builds are recommended. So when should you make the switch from Expo Go to a development build? What do these concepts mean exactly? https://lnkd.in/grrsfbxs

🔬 If you want to track the user engagement with your React Native apps you should check out Vexo. Beto recently demo'd their analytics tooling and it's a quick/simple way to start gaining insight into user behavior and app performance. What other analytics tools are people using to track their React Native apps? https://lnkd.in/gvmaaapx

🤔 Must we use index files? Kadi Kraman addresses the need for index files in Expo Router. The truth is that you need to use index files...but not all the time. Check out the vid ↓