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expo-dev-client

expo1.9mMIT5.0.20TypeScript support: included

Expo Development Client

react-native, expo, expo-dev-client

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expo sdk

Expo

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Introduction

Expo is an open-source platform for making universal native apps that run on Android, iOS, and the web. It includes a universal runtime and libraries that let you build native apps by writing React and JavaScript.

This repository includes the Expo SDK, Modules API, Go app, CLI, Router, documentation, and various other supporting tools. Expo Application Services (EAS) is a platform of hosted services that are deeply integrated with Expo open source tools. EAS helps you build, ship, and iterate on your app as an individual or a team.

Read the Expo Community Guidelines before interacting in the repository. Thank you for helping keep the Expo community open and welcoming!

Table of contents

📚 Documentation

Learn about building and deploying universal apps in our official docs!

🗺 Project Layout

  • packages All the source code for Expo modules, if you want to edit a library or just see how it works this is where you'll find it.
  • apps This is where you can find Expo projects which are linked to the development modules. You'll do most of your testing in here.
  • apps/expo-go This is where you can find the source code for Expo Go.
  • apps/expo-go/ios/Exponent.xcworkspace is the Xcode workspace. When developing iOS, always open this instead of Exponent.xcodeproj because the workspace also loads the CocoaPods dependencies.
  • docs The source code for https://docs.expo.dev
  • templates The template projects you get when you run npx create-expo-app
  • react-native-lab This is our fork of react-native used to build Expo Go.
  • guides In-depth tutorials for advanced topics like contributing to the client.
  • tools contain build and configuration tools.
  • template-files contains templates for files that require private keys. They are populated using the keys in template-files/keys.json.
  • template-files/ios/dependencies.json specifies the CocoaPods dependencies of the app.

🏅 Badges

Let everyone know your app can be run instantly in the Expo Go app!

runs with Expo Go

runs with Expo Go

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👏 Contributing

If you like Expo and want to help make it better then check out our contributing guide! Check out the CLI package to work on the Expo CLI.

❓ FAQ

If you have questions about Expo and want answers, then check out our Frequently Asked Questions!

If you still have questions you can ask them on our Discord and Forums or X @expo.

💙 The Team

Curious about who makes Expo? Here are our team members!

License

The Expo source code is made available under the MIT license. Some of the dependencies are licensed differently, with the BSD license, for example.

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changelog

Changelog

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5.0.20 — 2025-04-03

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5.0.19 — 2025-04-03

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5.0.18 — 2025-04-02

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5.0.17 — 2025-04-01

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5.0.16 — 2025-03-31

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5.0.15 — 2025-03-18

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5.0.14 — 2025-03-13

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5.0.13 — 2025-03-11

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5.0.12 — 2025-02-10

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5.0.11 — 2025-01-31

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5.0.10 — 2025-01-20

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5.0.9 — 2025-01-10

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5.0.8 — 2024-12-30

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5.0.7 — 2024-12-24

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5.0.6 — 2024-12-10

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5.0.5 — 2024-11-29

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5.0.4 — 2024-11-22

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5.0.3 — 2024-11-19

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5.0.2 — 2024-11-15

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5.0.1 — 2024-11-12

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5.0.0 — 2024-11-11

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5.0.0-preview.9 — 2024-11-07

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5.0.0-preview.8 — 2024-11-07

🐛 Bug fixes

  • [Android] Fixed mutiple reload when pressing r in CLI on react-native old architecture mode. (#32532 by @kudo)

5.0.0-preview.7 — 2024-11-05

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5.0.0-preview.6 — 2024-10-31

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5.0.0-preview.5 — 2024-10-31

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5.0.0-preview.4 — 2024-10-30

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5.0.0-preview.3 — 2024-10-29

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5.0.0-preview.2 — 2024-10-25

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5.0.0-preview.1 — 2024-10-24

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5.0.0-preview.0 — 2024-10-22

  • Add addGeneratedScheme config plugin option to disable automatic adding of dev client app scheme. (#31147 by @keith-kurak)

🛠 Breaking changes

  • Bumped iOS deployment target to 15.1. (#30840 by @tsapeta)
  • Changed the exports shape, instead of using namespaces, all entities now are exported directly on package top-level. (#31969 by @Simek)

🎉 New features

🐛 Bug fixes

  • Only import from expo/config-plugins to follow proper dependency chains. (#30499 by @byCedric)

💡 Others

4.0.27 - 2024-09-23

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4.0.26 - 2024-09-03

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4.0.25 - 2024-08-23

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4.0.24 - 2024-08-21

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4.0.23 - 2024-08-14

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4.0.22 - 2024-08-08

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4.0.21 - 2024-07-29

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4.0.20 - 2024-07-11

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4.0.19 - 2024-06-27

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4.0.18 - 2024-06-13

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4.0.17 - 2024-06-12

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4.0.16 - 2024-06-10

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4.0.15 - 2024-05-29

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4.0.14 — 2024-05-15

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4.0.13 — 2024-05-09

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4.0.12 — 2024-05-09

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4.0.11 — 2024-05-08

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4.0.10 — 2024-05-04

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4.0.9 — 2024-05-03

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4.0.8 — 2024-05-02

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4.0.7 — 2024-05-01

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4.0.6 — 2024-04-25

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4.0.5 — 2024-04-25

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4.0.4 — 2024-04-24

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4.0.3 — 2024-04-24

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4.0.2 — 2024-04-22

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4.0.1 — 2024-04-19

🎉 New features

  • Added bridgeless mode support on Android. (#28162 by @kudo)

4.0.0 — 2024-04-18

💡 Others

  • Removed deprecated backward compatible Gradle settings. (#28083 by @kudo)

3.3.11 - 2024-03-20

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3.3.10 - 2024-03-13

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3.3.9 - 2024-02-27

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3.3.8 - 2024-02-01

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3.3.7 - 2024-01-24

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3.3.6 - 2024-01-18

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3.3.5 - 2024-01-10

💡 Others

  • Replace deprecated com.facebook.react:react-native:+ Android dependency with com.facebook.react:react-android. (#26237 by @kudo)

3.3.4 - 2023-12-21

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3.3.3 - 2023-12-19

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3.3.2 — 2023-12-12

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3.3.1 — 2023-12-12

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3.3.0 — 2023-11-14

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3.2.0 — 2023-10-17

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2.4.11 — 2023-09-25

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3.1.1 — 2023-09-18

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2.4.10 — 2023-09-16

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2.4.9 — 2023-09-15

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3.1.0 — 2023-09-04

🎉 New features

  • Added support for React Native 0.73. (#24018 by @kudo)

💡 Others

3.0.0 — 2023-08-02

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2.4.7 — 2023-07-26

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2.4.2 — 2023-06-28

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2.4.1 — 2023-06-23

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2.4.0 — 2023-06-21

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2.3.0 — 2023-05-08

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2.1.4 — 2023-02-28

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2.1.3 — 2023-02-25

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2.1.2 — 2023-02-17

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2.1.1 — 2023-02-09

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2.1.0 — 2023-02-03

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  • On Android bump compileSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion to 33. (#20721 by @lukmccall)

2.0.1 — 2022-11-21

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2.0.0 — 2022-10-27

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1.3.1 — 2022-10-11

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1.3.0 — 2022-09-16

🐛 Bug fixes

  • Remove default scheme from intent filters that specify autoVerify=true. (#18963 by @ajsmth)

1.2.1 — 2022-08-16

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1.2.0 — 2022-08-11

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1.1.1 — 2022-07-20

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1.1.0 — 2022-07-18

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1.0.1 — 2022-07-14

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1.0.0 — 2022-06-09

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0.10.0 — 2022-06-07

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0.9.6 — 2022-05-19

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0.9.5 — 2022-05-06

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0.9.4 — 2022-05-05

🐛 Bug fixes

  • Fix no such module 'EXDevLauncher' when compiling the release build on iOS. (#17332 by @lukmccall)

0.9.3 — 2022-04-26

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0.9.2 — 2022-04-25

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0.9.1 — 2022-04-21

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0.9.0 — 2022-04-20

🐛 Bug fixes

  • Removed the unused jcenter() maven dependencies. (#16846 by @kudo)

⚠️ Notices

  • On Android bump compileSdkVersion to 31, targetSdkVersion to 31 and Java version to 11. (#16941 by @bbarthec)

0.8.4 — 2022-02-07

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0.8.3 — 2022-02-01

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  • Fix Plugin with id 'maven' not found build error from Android Gradle 7. (#16080 by @kudo)

0.8.2 — 2022-01-18

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0.8.1 — 2022-01-17

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0.8.0 — 2021-12-22

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0.7.2 — 2021-12-15

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0.7.1 — 2021-12-03

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0.7.0 — 2021-12-03

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0.6.3 — 2021-10-21

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0.6.2 — 2021-10-15

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0.6.1 — 2021-10-15

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0.6.0 — 2021-10-07

🛠 Breaking changes

  • Added a native dependency on the expo-manifests package. Projects without react-native-unimodules or expo-modules-core installed will need to follow the upgrade guide here when upgrading from an older version of this package. (#14461 by @esamelson)
  • Replace Android DevLauncherManifest class with expo-manifests. (#14462 by @esamelson)

🐛 Bug fixes

  • Fix building errors from use_frameworks! in Podfile. (#14523 by @kudo)

💡 Others

0.5.1 — 2021-09-03

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0.5.0 — 2021-09-02

💡 Others

  • Fix .npmignore and remove tests/ directory from published npm package. (#13990 by @esamelson)

0.4.7 — 2021-08-06

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0.4.6 — 2021-08-04

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0.4.5 — 2021-07-16

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0.4.4 — 2021-07-08

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0.4.3 — 2021-06-30

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0.4.2 — 2021-06-30

🐛 Bug fixes

  • Pin versions of expo-dev-launcher, expo-dev-menu, and expo-dev-menu-interface packages. (#13430 by @esamelson)

0.4.1 — 2021-06-24

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0.3.0 — 2021-06-10

🎉 New features

  • [plugin] Autogenerate a common URI scheme for iOS/Android if one doesn't exist. (#13147 by @fson)
  • [plugin] Add getDefaultScheme function for Expo CLI. (#13230 by @fson)

0.2.0 — 2021-06-08

🐛 Bug fixes

  • [plugin] Fix react-native.config.js not being added in expo prebuild --platform android. (#13204 by @fson)

0.1.3 — 2021-05-20

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0.1.2 — 2021-05-13

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0.1.1 — 2021-05-12

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0.1.0 — 2021-05-11

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