Questions tagged [expo]
Expo is an open-source and free platform that lets web developers build truly native apps that work across both iOS and Android by writing them once in just JavaScript. Use the Expo tag on questions about developing Expo projects and using the Expo development tools like XDE and exp.
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Hide header in stack navigator React navigation
I'm trying to switch screens using both stack and tab navigator.
const MainNavigation = StackNavigator({
otp: { screen: OTPlogin },
otpverify: { screen: OTPverification},
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What is the difference between Expo and React Native?
From the Expo website
Expo lets web developers build truly native apps that work across both iOS and Android by writing them once in just JavaScript.
Isn't this what React Native does? What's the ...
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Error Appstore connect : Missing Purpose String in Info.plist File
I've submitted my app for review to the App Store Connect. Although the app is still under review, I've received an email to inform me that I have to fix an error. Here is the content of the message:
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Cannot add task 'wrapper' as a task with that name already exists
When installing 'react-native init AwesomeProject' I get this error when I run react-native run-android:
Could not determine java version from '11.0.1'.
A quick google suggests I need to update the ...
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How can I clean (reset cache) of React Native using Expo. Not sure if it is cache issue
I am building a simple React Native app with create-react-native-app using only react-navigation and base-64(base 64 encode/decode) as dependencies. Over time starting the app became slower and now ...
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Xcode 15: Unable to boot the Simulator
I was able to run iOS simulator fine with Xcode 14 and my Mac recently updated the latest version of Xcode which is 15 then I'm no longer able to boot a device from its new simulator.
I did try many ...
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React Native iOS and Android folders not present
I'm new to react native, and I've been having some trouble understanding the folder structure of the app which should supposedly be present in the project folder on creation. Basically, when creating ...
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Warning : Failed child context type: Invalid child context 'virtualizedCell.cellKey' of type 'number' supplied to 'CellRenderer', expected 'string'
I updgraded from react 16.2 -> 16.3-alpha-1 and react-native 0.52->0.54 and I get the warning above in the simulator.
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npm ci can only install packages with an existing package-lock.json or npm-shrinkwrap.json with lockfileVersion >= 1
This is the issue that I am facing when running the command npm ci to install dependencies in my GitHub Action file.
I am working on an expo managed app and using GitHub Actions as a CI for triggering ...
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Network Response Time Out Error (create-react-native-app) (expo)
I am trying to run create-react-native-app on expo app in android.
Firstly ,I created the project by writing command
create-react-native-app test
then I executed
npm start
then scanned the qr ...
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Expo: Change default IOS simulator
I am new in expo and react-native
Whenever i run the app from IOS simulator (inside expo) it always boots up the IphoneX. If i need to change the simulator,I have to open it through Xcode, is there ...
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Implement pull to refresh FlatList
please help me out to implement pull to refresh on my app, I'm kinda new to react native, thanks. I don't know how to handle onRefresh and refreshing.
class HomeScreen extends Component {
state = { ...
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What is the difference between Expo CLI and React Native CLI? [duplicate]
React Native provides two way to create Project.
First:
npm install -g expo-cli
Second:
npm install -g react-native-cli
so what is different between them and what should be used if we create ...
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How do you format a number to currency when using React native Expo?
How do I take a number like 10000 and have it output as $10,000.00?
I even had a problem with String.format(...) with a Not a function error.
I followed numerous articles, all incomplete and none ...
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'expo' is not recognized as an internal or external command
After running npm install -g expo-cli and successfully installing the packages globally, expo is still not recognized as an internal or external command. Does anyone know how I might get around this ...
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Invariant Violation: requireNativeComponent: "RNCSafeAreaProvider" was not found in the UIManager [closed]
Implementing React Navigate in the project installing the package npm install @react-navigation/native @react-navigation/stack shows the following error.
Can anyone help me with this issue?
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Getting Error: "Use process(css).then(cb) to work with async plugins"
screens/HomeScreen.js: Use process(css).then(cb) to work with async plugins
Here is my HomeScreen.js
import { View, Text } from 'react-native'
import React from 'react'
export default function ...
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NativeModule: AsyncStorage is null, with @RNC/AsyncStorage
I'm working on a React Native project created with Expo. I've been using regular old AsyncStorage, importing from react-native, and all has been well.
In looking up how to mock AsyncStorage for ...
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How to reduce the size of an expo/react-native app on Android
I am developing a small dictionary app by using react native with expo.
As I am compiling to Apk file. The size goes up to 30mb and after having installed on a device, it goes to 80mb.
Is this ...
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EXPO: Unable to resolve module ‘./debugger
After a reload my app has stopped loading.
a
I have tried on both emulators and 2 real devives, android and ios.
The error is:
Error: Unable to resolve module ./debugger-ui/debuggerWorker.d9da4ed7 ...
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expo + react-native: There was a problem sending log messages
I am building a react-native app that I recently moved to expo. The app seems to display the expected screen, but before it completes, I am receiving the following error message: console.error: "...
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React-native bundling failure. ERROR MESSAGE: "While trying to resolve module 'idb'..... Indeed none of these files exist":
ERROR MESSAGE IN QUESTION:
While trying to resolve module idb from file C:\Users\OG\Desktop\programming\react_native\mealstogo\MealsToGo2\node_modules\@firebase\app\dist\esm\index.esm2017.js, the ...
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Calling locally hosted server from Expo App
I am creating a react-native app and one of the components I have created contains a property which is populated through data coming from an http request.
Right now I am hosting the server from my ...
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React Native: Generate .apk and .ipa using Expo
I'm trying to generate a .ipa and a .apk file for my React Native app using Expo & Create React Native App. I successfully built the app and was able to get it to run on both an iOS & an ...
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react native downloading javascript bundle 100% stuck
when I am trying to execute npm start it works fine, but when i try to run my application by expo the process goes till 100% and after that nothing happens. I am not getting what is exact issue over ...
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EAS Build iOS Failure: Authentication with Apple Developer Portal failed [closed]
I'm using EAS to build my Expo app, and today I started getting this error when attempting to run an iOS build, either local or on EAS servers. I'm thinking it's an issue with Apple servers, so I'm ...
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Can't load expo app: Something went wrong
I've created an expo app with exp init MyApp command and started it by running exp start in MyApp directory.
Then I'm scanning barcode which was printed in console with expo mobile app on android ...
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App Store - Help answering "Missing Compliance" (using Expo + Firebase)
I'm publishing my app to App Store and I have doubts regarding the "Missing Compliance" step.
Here's some info about the app:
I used Expo (Managed workflow). That means I don't have direct ...
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How can I upload a photo with Expo?
I'm making an app with Expo and want to let the user take a photo or pick one from their camera roll and upload it to my server. How do I do this?
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'Stack.Navigator' cannot be used as a JSX component
There is a type issue using react navigation, when use Stack.Navigation or Stack.Group from createNativeStackNavigator
The issue saids that the types dont match with JSX.element at the end of the ...
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How to define entry point for react native app
I'm just getting started with react native and have created a base app with create-react-native-app.
I did some restructuring and made a few new folders and renamed the App.js to Home.js. I modified ...
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How to reduce Android APK size in react-native?
I am working on react native project , but whenever i am building an Apk file , it give me Apk of 47MB.
I tried every documentation which i found useful on google but nothing works for me, Is there ...
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React Native Expo change default LAN IP
I've got virtual box installed. And when I look at the host > LAN > ip address is exp://192.168.56.1:19000.
How can I change it without disable the network? because it's my virtualbox ip and my ...
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How to fix Something went wrong installing the "sharp" module and Cannot find module '../build/Release/sharp.node' in expo
I tried to install expo after I executed the command exp start but I got:
Something went wrong installing the "sharp" module
Cannot find module '../build/Release/sharp.node'.
How can I fix ...
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Uninstalling Expo CLI
I have installed Expo CLI globally and cant start a new react native app without using expo cli and therefore would like to uninstall it from my system. I have spent hours trying to work out how to ...
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Android Material and appcompat Manifest merger failed in react-native or ExpoKit
I updated 'android.support:appcompat-v7' to 28.0.0.
But it brought an error from the build.
Attribute application@appComponentFactory value=(android.support.v4.app.CoreComponentFactory) from [com....
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RTL is forced in RTL devices
The new version of React Native has issued support for RTL devices:
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/2016/08/19/right-to-left-support-for-react-native-apps.html
However, it seems that in ...
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Re-render component when navigating the stack with React Navigation
I am currently using react-navigation to do stack- and tab- navigation.
Is it possible to re-render a component every time the user navigates to specific screens? I want to make sure to rerun the ...
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Change navigation header background color
Struggling to understand how to change the navigation header bar background color.
I'm Using react navigation and Expo to build my app.
backgroundColor does not seem to do anything. Any idea how to ...
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How to remove unwanted expo modules
When creating an react native app with expo, expo installs many module that i don't need. Is there a way to remove these unwanted modules like barcode reader google sign in and google maps.
thanks
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Not using the Expo fork of react-native
I'm using expo with react native. All is fine, but i get this warning and the app takes a long time in loading :
[exp] Warning: Not using the Expo fork of react-native. See https://docs.expo.io/.
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Camera Preview in Expo is Distorted
I'm using Camera that comes from expo package and I'm having trouble with camera preview distortion. The preview makes images appear wider in landscape view and thinner in portrait view. Most of the ...
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Failed to install expo package with error: yarnpkg exited with non-zero code: 1 yarnpkg exited with non-zero code: 1
Im currently trying to update my Expo SDK from 36.0.0 to atleast 37.0.0 with the command expo update
however im getting the error:
× Failed to install expo package with error: yarnpkg exited with ...
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How to build expo apk using eas build
After updating expo it no longer supports building apk files using expo build:android -t apk and instead advices to using eas builds using the command eas build -p android --profile preview but it ...
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How to use import with absolute paths with Expo and React Native?
I'm trying to use absolute import paths instead of relative paths with Expo and React Native.
I looked on the expo docs and couldn't find an answer... Searching for the subject in react community I ...
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How to build Expo APK local
Is it possible to build the APK of an expo app locally?
The doc says:
If you haven’t used exp before, the first thing you’ll need to do is login with your Expo account using exp login.
I tried ...
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Scroll through the view when keyboard is open (React Native / Expo)
I am having a hard time using a KeyboardAvoidingView on my Expo app. I would like to meet the following requirements:
When the keyboard opens, the view should scroll up so that the user always sees ...
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Error: NativeViewGestureHandler must be used as a descendant of GestureHandlerRootView
I've installed GestureHandler (npx expo install react-native-gesture-handler) and also imported it into my App.tsx file on line 3 with polyfills
import 'react-native-gesture-handler';
was doing it by ...
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crypto.getRandomValues() not supported
I'm getting this error with npm [email protected] when I try to generate a QR code with react-native-qrcode-generator
I'm using react-native with an expo managed workflow. And the thing is ...
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expo.io's BackgroundFetch is not running the defined task
I am currently developing an app for iOS with expo sdk-version 32. I have to call a REST service periodically from my app. In order to do that I tried to utilize the new BackgroundFetch API.
Here is ...
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