Expo Go vs Development Builds: Which should you use? 

This video was super helpful in setting up my dev build! Thank you Beto

Beto sir is on fire with expo. 👍 sir do consider cover deep linking too in your upcoming videos. This is the most untouched topic

The clearest explanation on this topic I have seen.

Hey beto....please make a video on expo environment variables...How can we secure our secret keys and stuff?

If you are on designing phase use expo go for hot reload, if you're building features and stuff that specifically needs native code, use dev build

if i have an iPhone and windows laptop , can i develop an app with Expo CLI and download it to my iPhone

Development builds team 💪

Have been using Expo for a while now, and really LOVE the developer experience. (I started out building websites, and my first mobile experience was with phone gap. Expo has been similar to that experience, but obviously WAY better! Love using React Native, Native Modules, etc.) BUT although I love it, the issues mentioned between expo go and having to build and install every time was the biggest pain point for me, and I hadn't heard about Development Builds. I LOVE IT - this video was great although I did skip to the part on Development Builds 9:00 minutes to the end had me hooked - I've just switched :D

Dev builds are incredible

Can you please show an example of sharing your app on a PREVIEW build to stakeholders? How would that work ?

Great but a confused a bit why you had to run dev server for an ios app already built in EAS? Makes sense for development but I would have expected the built app to work without the dev server running? Also is there any way to deploy to an iPhone with Expo without the paid Apple Dev account? I mean using the free one with Apple Id that lets you deploy to your own device for 7 days if you are using native xcode.

Excellent video! I have used development builds in the past but the issue i was facing is that once installed in my device, my real live app was replaced by the new build since they have the same name. How can I bypass this issue and have both apps in my device, the one installed from the store and the development build at the same time.

Really useful, thanks for the lesson!

Can i use the eas build with react native cli to install the app on my real device?

Thanks for sharing, you guys rock!

Thank you for this explanation

Thanks for the video and the articles, it was very explanatory. Is there any way to make a third party lib integrate with expo go? Request it somewhere, update a repository, etc. Is there a way?

That's amazing!

In windows you cant build android apk u have build with server and u will get a lot pf errors..

awesome

NEVER, EVER stop supporting expo go

The only reason I use expo go is because I don't have a mac, otherwise I'd use dev builds for everything because it helps catch so many bugs early on.

wooow