distributing-and-updating.md

Expo

For full documentation, refer to the official Expo Docs.

Distributing Your App

Expo makes it simple to build and deploy your application. It's only required to build and submit your app to the App Stores when there are changes to native code. This only happens on upgrades to the Expo SDK.

If you need to have multiple environments (such as dev and prod), use Release Channels.

React Native iOS and Android Apps

For more info, see Building Standalone Apps.

npm run build:ios
npm run build:android

React Native Web Apps (PWAs)

For more info, see Publishing Websites.

npm run build:web

Updating Your App

Expo comes pre-configured with support for Over-the-Air updates. As mentioned above, you will not need to redeploy your app to the App Stores unless you make changes to your app's version of the Expo SDK. For more info, see Configuring OTA Updates.

npm run publish

# equivalent to
expo publish