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Announcing the 2026 𝝠 Expo App Awards 🙌 The talent, the care, and the craft we see in the Expo community is staggering. There are powerful, beautiful, important apps getting built with Expo tools and services every day. The 𝝠 Expo App Awards is a celebration of the apps and the people who build them. Last year we had over 1,200 submissions and winners from big enterprises, solo devs (we hired one of them @DaehyeonMun!), and tiny startups that have grown and been acquired. The award categories are: 🏆 Expo App of the Year 🏆 Most Creative 🏆 Community's Choice 🏆 Largest Scale 🏆 Most Innovative Submission criteria is simple: if your app uses Expo you should submit it. We encourage you to explain what is special about your app in the submission form. For example, if you have unique haptics, or clever Live Activities, or a super nuanced onboarding experience please share that in your submission. Submissions begin today and go through the end of the month. Then we'll begin evaluating and announcing nominees/winners.

RT @kadikraman: QA swarm in progress 👷‍♀️👷👷‍♂️👷‍♀️👷👷‍♂️👷‍♀️👷👷‍♂️

Native iPhone Duo apps, built with Expo. Ship yours before your AppleCare appointment!

Check out our guide for building native iPhone Duo apps with Expo

RT @jullerino: Fun little feature I snuck in a while ago but never announced, you can use EAS cloud simulators through T3 Code's device panel. Perfect if you don't have spare mac minis laying around

My office desk is becoming a data center

We built a CLI for agents, so they can stop guessing whether your app needs a dev build. Great blog today from @kudochien and @vonovak about exactly what we built and how to take advantage of it:

Starting to see more and more of this agentic workflow across our customer base 👇

The mobile factory is humming @expo - everyone is reaching for this type of setup: 1. agents pick up linear tickets 2. spawn simulators to fix them 3. submit PRs 4. 10-20 going at a time 5. Run your test suite 6. Deploy to Production via Update or Build

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A QA engineer who had never built a mobile app made the transit app Kharkiv riders open every day. Works offline, no ads or tracking, 500+ daily users, rated 5.0. It threw its name in for the Expo App Awards. What app does your city's transit really need?

Try it here: Kharkiv Metro Helper threw its name in for the Expo App Awards. Your turn. Entries close Oct 31:

If your agent shipped a fix over the air and something looks off...you can roll it back in one step. Your users go back to the last good update. Here's how rollbacks work:

💅 @doodrawapp went from first commit in May to 120k installs in October, with two people and no ad budget. The drawing engine is Rust and the rest is Expo. 🏆 Their Expo App Award submission caught our eye so we asked if they wanted to write a blog about building with Expo and growing their user base organically:

Proud of the team @partiful for hitting #1. Great app and great people.

I can't believe we got to #1 in Lifestyle on the App Store without giving out free stuff

Today is the day to fold your apps 🙌 We wrote a guide you can give to your agents to get started. On iPhone Duo your status bar and tab bar move into a rail on the side, so 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚎𝚝𝚜.𝚝𝚘𝚙 is 0 now. This guide from @huntie, @__ubax__, and @chrfalch will help you adjust your apps for the fold:

32,000+ public toilets across Japan, ranked by walking distance, plus a layer for the 17 architect-designed Tokyo Toilets. One person built floopy with Expo. Spotted in the Expo App Awards submissions. What's the most useful niche app on your phone?

Try it here: Spotted in the Expo App Awards submissions. If you've shipped something with Expo, throw your hat in by Oct 31:

Your app's content just became Siri AI context 👀 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚘-𝚊𝚙𝚙-𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜 lets you make your content searchable in Spotlight and gives Apple Intelligence context about what's onscreen.

Checkout our walkthrough here:

Here's the loop we see modern apps run on: build → verify → deploy → observe → update → build again... We're (very) close to shipping some services that will make this fast, safe, and flexible. If the last year has been wild, the next year will be science fiction.

The quickest way from SDK 57 to 58 is to hand the upgrade to your coding agent. Once the Expo skills are installed, commit and tell it “Upgrade this project to the latest Expo SDK” Or you can do it by hand! Details for both approaches in the blog from @entiendoNULL and @llamaluvr: