From the course: Learning React Native
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What is Expo?
- [Instructor] Expo is a framework and a platform that helps developers create, develop, and publish robust React Native applications. Remember, React Native applications are Native applications. They are written in their own native languages and they implement a bridge pattern that allows JavaScript to run in its own thread and communicate with the components that are native to the device. The code base for these applications are hybrids of JavaScript, Objective-C, SWIFT, and Java. If you want to build an iOS app, you need an Apple Developer account and Xcode. If you want to build an Android app, you're going to need the Android SDK, Android Studio, and you're going to need to know Java. Essentially, when working with React Native, you're still building a native app, so you're going to need to have a lot of computer books on your shelf. Learning all of this can be pretty tedious and time consuming. What you really need…
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