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Installing the Expo client

Installing the Expo client

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Installing the Expo client

- The best way to develop mobile applications is to test those apps directly on your phone. Now, in the past getting a React native app on your phone was a bit of a painful process. Not anymore, thanks to Expo. What we're going to do in this lesson is install the Expo client on our phone. And this will allow us to test our application code directly on our device. From expo.io, under the Tools, the tool that we're going to be looking at is the Client. And the Client is a native app. So it's either an iOS app or an Android app. So in order to install the Client on my phone what I'm going to go ahead and do is go the App Store. And I'll do a search for Expo. If it doesn't come up under Expo, you can always do a search for Expo.io. So there it is, the Expo Client. I'm going to go ahead and install that. And once we have the Expo Client installed, you will have this app on your phone, so you can go ahead and open it. Now,…

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