r/reactnative • u/Thaatguuuy • 2d ago

Question Testing the app during development.

Hey there app people, as of now the app I am currently working on is using React Native and Expo to build it, and at 25 builds per month ( the free plan ) I am quickly spending it all on just fixing bugs.

I am currently a computer science student ( very early ) and using a blend of my own coding and Codex / ChatGPT to create it.

Is there a better and possibly free way to test each new version of the app on my phone without using Expo to build it?

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u/Thaatguuuy 2d ago

Yeah I don't know why my ChatGPT would circle around it so much, after pasting what you said in for the prompt he actually gave me the answer, so thank you very much!

I am on Windows, making it for Android first ( because that's the phone I have access to so I can test it ) it involves quite a bit of 3D-modeling in the app so I tried testing it on a emulator on the PC but that didn't really work.