The Classic Build service will support up to SDK 46 (June 2022) and will run until 2023. — This blog post covers the why and how of the end-of-life for the Classic Build Service. If you’d like to skip ahead tomigrating to EAS Build, refer this guide. Over five years ago, the Expo team launched expo build, a way to take an Expo project in development and turn…

Yesterday an npm package named ua-parser-js was compromised. An attacker took over the npm account belonging to ua-parser-js's author and published malicious code in its place. npm has removed the malicious code and installing packages today is safe but we wrote this post since some Expo packages depended on ua-parser-js…

In 2021, the Expo Client app from the stores is getting a new name: Expo Go — This coming January, the Expo Client app in the App Store and Google Play is getting a new name: Expo Go. The app will otherwise be the same. We’re renaming the app to make it clear when we’re talking about the development app in the app stores (Expo Go/Expo Client)…

No changes to correctly configured apps; misconfigured apps without an API key will lose maps service on October 5 — Google Maps is one of the APIs that Expo makes especially easy to use. Each app that uses Google Maps needs an API key in order to request maps data from Google. Generally, each Expo app uses its developer’s own Google Maps API key, configured when deploying to the app…

After releasing SDK 38 about a week ago and following up on some loose ends, the Expo team is starting to work on SDK 39. Our top priorities for SDK 39 are: support for iOS 14, fixing bugs, the Updates and Splash Screen modules, and internal refactoring. …

UPDATE: SDK37 launched on March 31, including a new dev menu, support for native Firebase Analytics, and huge milestones (OTA Updates, SplashScreen and Notifications) for the Bare workflow. …

From 2020 onward, Expo’s servers will require the latest TLS protocols (TLS 1.2 and 1.3), and will drop support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1. — Like most websites today, Expo uses HTTPS to secure each connection to the Expo servers. Many different clients connect to Expo: apps that use Expo’s over-the-air updates, servers that send push notifications using Expo’s notification service, Expo CLI, and browsers that visit our website. All of them connect securely with…

Quality is not an act, it is a habit. Sometimes companies like Microsoft and Apple will focus on maintenance instead of new features for a new version of their software — Windows 7 improved upon Vista, Windows 10 improved upon Windows 8, and macOS High Sierra improved upon Sierra. These…

Some new features, ad hoc builds, and removed SDK versions — Note: SDK 33 has been released and the announcement is here. We are working on Expo SDK 33 and wanted to talk about some of the changes in this next release that we think are most helpful to know about in advance. …