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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 02/04/2026

Released a massive update of my coffee timer app, Single Origin. I wanted to brew the roaster-created recipes available on the Fellow Aiden & xBloom, so I built an app that guides you through every pour, agitation, etc. Since it's built with Expo, it runs on iOS, WatchOS, Android, & Web. 👇

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 24/03/2026

I rebuilt my pour-over coffee app recently. AI wrote most of the code (but with my handwritten code from a previous version as context). App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/singl... Play Store: play.google.com/store/apps/d... Web: single-origin.expo.app

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Single Origin - Coffee Timer App - App Store

Download Single Origin - Coffee Timer by Jon Samp on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Single Origin - Coffee…

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 30/12/2025

My process: make a coffee, set a 25 min timer, put on a coding music playlist, and write down a goal. Would love to hear what you think of Expo when you try it!

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 22/12/2025

My hunch is that mobile apps will only become more open/accessible, and it seems like RN being React is poised to be the default as apps become more like sites on the web.

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 22/12/2025

With RN, we can dynamically load JS, we can breakout of the SPA-by-default patterns of traditional mobile dev, and maybe one day we’ll be able to search across and inside apps.

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 22/12/2025

The web is an incredible distribution platform. You can easily share URLs that deep link into sites. You can even search across every site on the web. Mobile apps are behind on distribution. It seems like super apps are trying to solve this. They’re essentially browsers.

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 20/11/2025

This reminds me of lava lamps. Such a cool effect!

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 29/10/2025

Agree. The three finger long press is far superior!

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 15/10/2025

You could build the website with expo too. One codebase to rule them all 😇

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 29/09/2025

These queue times are going to fluctuate as demand changes, but happy this week is looking better. You can see demand on our queue dashboard: expo.dev/eas-build-st...

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Service Status — Expo

Expo is an open-source platform for making universal native apps for Android, iOS, and the web with JavaScript and React.

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 29/09/2025

We're keeping a close eye on queue times to make sure it's consistently better. It's really important to us that building your app on Expo is a nice experience, especially when you're working on a passion project.

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 29/09/2025

The iOS queue times for Free plan users on @expo.dev were around 4 hours at this time last week. We increased our Mac capacity today. We're seeing <10 min queue times right now. ⚡ Subscribers are seeing 0 min queue times.

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 13/09/2025

Yep, check out the code github.com/bluesky-soci...

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 15/08/2025

Huge fan of this idea! So cool 😎

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 10/07/2025

Welcome to the team! We’re so freakin pumped!!

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 14/05/2025

If you say please should it also say sorry too? 😂

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 10/04/2025

I added some error tracking and haven’t been able to see where it happens. I’ve also deleted and reinstalled the app many times and can’t reproduce it. Any ideas on what I can try to make it happen? I assume you deleted/reinstalled? Would love to track it down.

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 19/03/2025

You might try bolt.new and use Expo. There’s no native build configuration to deal with and you can still use native code. Might help with Xcode builds failing/a tough debugging experience. Would be interested to see if you have more luck!

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Prompt, run, edit & deploy web apps

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 19/03/2025

It looks like borderBottomWidth is not supported: reactnative.dev/docs/textinp... I would try removing styles from that text input and then adding a View around it to style it with your own look.

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 19/03/2025

What’s your app? Would be interesting to see the before and after.

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 11/03/2025

It’s this one, except I added a web deploy step since my app is universal: docs.expo.dev/eas/workflow...

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Example CI/CD workflows

Common CI/CD workflows that are useful for your project.

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 11/03/2025

This is some real power. I just merged to `main` and my changes deployed to Android, iOS, and the web in ~4min total.

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 05/03/2025

I started working at Expo after seeing a Tweet. Maybe you could too?!

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 05/03/2025

This thumbnail makes me smile. Can’t wait to watch!

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Charlie Cheever @ccheever.com · 05/03/2025

Congrats to us for winning best supporting actor/actress in the Bytes.dev OSScars

Best Supporting Actor/Actress: Expo. After years of supporting React Native, Expo has now teamed up with Al platforms like Replit and Bolt to allow developers (and normies) to build and ship mobile apps "without writing any code" - or at least a lot less code. Hopefully this will usher in another App Store golden age, because l've really been missing
Lightsaber Unleashed and Doodle Jump.

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 03/03/2025

This means my scrabble app can come to the web 😮

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 01/03/2025

USB C to USB C is a banger of a Christmas Eve.

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 22/02/2025

The CFP form says “You can submit your proposal until February 23rd”. So not clear! I’m assuming end of Feb 23.

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 22/02/2025

Sorry I missed this, replied to your other post

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 22/02/2025

I’m not sure yet. I assume you deleted and reinstalled? Makes me wonder if the app got confused about which dictionary to use. Definitely sounds like a problem I need to fix. I can investigate!

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Simek @simek.dev · 20/02/2025

Just launched the first version of the React Native Directory VS Code extension! 🎉 Now you can effortlessly discover & integrate React Native libraries into your project, without leaving VS Code. Give it a try and let me know what you think! 👇 🔗 marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

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React Native Directory - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Find and install right packages for all of your React Native apps right from VS Code.

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 15/02/2025

Free accounts get 30 builds (up to 15 iOS), free submissions, 100K hosting requests, and ~60 over the air update publishes per month on @expo.dev. And now you can automate it all so that a push to main = delivered code.

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 13/02/2025

If you want to make a real mobile app, but you don’t program or know React/Expo, you can. 🔥🔥🔥 Check out @ariellecpx.bsky.social’s video: youtu.be/Q132XvlS2qg?...

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I made a mobile app in ONE PROMPT - No Code! 🔥👀

YouTube video by Arielle Phoenix

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Tyler Williams @coolsoftware.dev · 09/02/2025

Sometimes people ask me for my opinions about React Native tech and it's basically just this.

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 08/02/2025

whoa @expo.dev just hit 1MM weekly npm downloads 🌟

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 07/02/2025

That's it for today. We're still working on a bunch of things, like approval jobs, more pre-packaged jobs (like fingerprint), and later cron jobs for the biweekly release crowd. Is there a feature you'd love to see? Lmk!

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 07/02/2025

📚 We have updated docs. Check out our new examples doc, which has easy to copy/edit workflow configs. We also have a new syntax guide. It's now easier to figure out everything you can automate.

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 07/02/2025

🤳 Our UI is made for app developers. That means you can publish an update and your team will see a QR code to preview it in seconds. We'll also show you compatible builds for that update. Or you can even open it in Orbit!

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 07/02/2025

🔄 You can now re-run entire workflows or from failed jobs. When you confirm, you'll *instantly* see the new workflow re-running. Great for flakey Maestro tests.

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 07/02/2025

✍️ We also made the list of jobs on the page match your YAML config. Why? You might have 10 jobs, then a build at the end, and you want your team to download the build. This makes it so that you can put the build first in your YAML and it'll appear above the fold.

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 07/02/2025

We released a product called workflows, a React Native CI/CD, late last year. Heard a *ton* of feedback and there are a lot of new features. Let's dive in: 🗺️ We now display a topologically sorted map of your workflow, so you can see what's in progress, finished, failed, etc.

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Jon Samp @jon.expo.app · 29/01/2025

Trying to make 3D stuff in Figma. Everything's just shapes after all 🤷‍♂️

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