Strategies for beta testing on real device
What you will learn
- Generate a development build and try our app without Expo Go.
👾 Before we start the exercise
- Have a look at "create development builds" documentation
👨🚀 Exercise 3
- Update your
eas.json
file to create and install an EAS Build
Android
- build a
development
binary on the expo platform forandroid
To create and install the development build on an Android device, you will need a .apk
. To create it, run the following command:
eas build --profile development --platform android
-
After the build is complete, copy the
.apk
URL from the build details page or the link provided wheneas build
has finished. -
Send that URL to your device and open it to download and install the
.apk
.
- Download the build artifact directly on your device from expo.dev website
iOS
- build a
development
binary on the expo platform foriOS
eas build --profile development --platform ios
You can check this video for beta testing your React Native application with Expo on real iOS
device.
- Download the build artifact directly on your device from expo.dev website