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Building for Android devices

Building for Android devices

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Building for Android devices

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- [Instructor] We can use Expo to help us build our application for Android devices. This means that you don't have to install Android Studio, or the Android STK to build an application that you're ready to distribute to the Google Play Store. So here we can see the color organizer is up and running within an Android simulator. The application appears to be working, but when we test this application we're actually testing it through the Expo app. Let's go ahead and build an Android application that we can install directly on this simulator. The first thing I need to do is go into the app.json file and provide Android with some configuration information that it can use during the build process. Specifically I have to name the package. So in this case, we're going to do com.moonhighway.colorcatalog for the name of our Android application. Once I have that saved, I can open up the terminal and use the Expo CLI to run Expo…

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