Build & sign your Expo React Native app for Play Store — no EAS, no Android Studio UI.Just CLI
#reactnative #expo #ExpoPrebuild #AndroidBuild #apk #mobiledevelopment #codingshorts #appdevelopment #playstore
Create production bundle from expo react native build without using EAS and Android studio.
Command to generate Keytool certificate
keytool -genkeypair -v -keystore my-release-key.keystore -alias my-key-alias -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000
Gradle Property to update
MYAPP_UPLOAD_STORE_FILE=my-release-key.keystore
MYAPP_UPLOAD_KEY_ALIAS=my-key-alias
MYAPP_UPLOAD_STORE_PASSWORD=your-keystore-password
MYAPP_UPLOAD_KEY_PASSWORD=your-key-password
Signing Config for build.gradle file
signingConfigs {
release {
storeFile file(MYAPP_UPLOAD_STORE_FILE)
storePassword MYAPP_UPLOAD_STORE_PASSWORD
keyAlias MYAPP_UPLOAD_KEY_ALIAS
keyPassword MYAPP_UPLOAD_KEY_PASSWORD
}
}
buildTypes {
release {
signingConfig signingConfigs.release
minifyEnabled false
shrinkResources false
// optionally enable proguard
// proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile("proguard-android-optimize.txt"), "proguard-rules.pro"
}
}
Gradle command to create release bundle
#APK
./gradlew assembleRelease
or for AAB
./gradlew bundleRelease