Chapter 7. Releasing the Application

The first version of our application is complete, which means that we are ready to go through the process of creating the production builds. In this chapter, we will start by showing you how to generate and run the application off of a static JavaScript bundle. Then, in preparation for the App Store, we will use Xcode to build our iOS release. Lastly, for Android we will walk through the set of command-line tools and scripts provided by React Native to build the final APK.

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • Generating the static bundle for iOS
  • Using the static bundle in place of react-native start
  • Building a release in Xcode
  • Signing and building the Android release APK

Generating the static bundle in iOS ...

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