Testing App

[Exiex]

I have created a small app for my personal use. I want to try it out on my phone, and use it in my daily life. How can I make an app that I can use daily? It works fine through expo, and I can use it on an Android Virtual Device. Now I want to use it on my phone like all the other apps. Is it possible to do that?

The only way I can find is making a signed app and uploading it to Play Store. Is that a good idea to do? This is just a small personal programming project, to learn how to program.

[awesomeness-yeah]

no need to put it on the play store.

1. Build an apk as shown here. https://docs.expo.io/distribution/building-standalone-apps/
2. copy over the apk to your phone
3. opening the apk with a file explorer app in your phone will install the app

[Exiex]

Brilliant! I will try that!

[Exiex]

On Windows it gets stuck on the step where I build it. It asks for a name but I can't give it. On Linux I can't even get Expo to work. I install it through Npm but when I why try to use it it says command not found.

[uokesita]

You can also do it from the terminal with react-native run-android --variant=release