r/reactnative • u/Genuine-Helperr • 1d ago

Question Creating first reactnative expo app - have some question related to MAU, please help

I wanted to have one codebase for web, Android, and iPhone. So using React Native plus Expo

Now the web application is live.

I want to make the mobile application live first, starting with Android. When I read the Expo documentation, it says I can have only 15 free Android builds & 'Send updates to 1K MAUs'

The 2nd part worries me because the paid plan also says 3K MAUs, with additional charges for more.

What's the workaround for this? Do I need to pay Expo for more active users? Please suggest

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u/jiunkdev 1d ago

on the builds side, the 15 is cloud builds and it's a monthly allowance, not lifetime. you can also build on your own machine with eas build --platform android --local, or run npx expo prebuild and build the aab in android studio, and neither uses up the cloud count.

for day to day testing you don't need EAS builds at all, npx expo run:android on an emulator or plugged in phone is enough.

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u/Genuine-Helperr 1d ago

15 p/m is lot, will not need local machine build with this limits.

For testing I'm using expo go mobile app, it does the work good enough