Create an Internal Distribution Build for Android with EAS
Create an Internal Distribution (Preview) build for sharing your app in internally in production mode.
This can be used to share your build with your team or testers without submitting it to Google Play.
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[00:00] An internal distribution or a preview build is for when you want to create a demo version of your app without uploading it to Google Play. This could be used for example for QA testing or internal demos. Let's look at our EAS JSON. We want to use the default preview configuration. [00:20] Notice that the only difference between the preview and the development configuration is that in the preview one, we don't enable the development client. Open your terminal and type in EIS build profile preview platform Android. Now we'll need to wait for the build to run. Now that the build is finished, we'll click install on the EIS page, [00:40] Open the camera app and scan the QR code. This will take us to a page to download the build. Now since I'm using the same phone, I already have the development version installed which is why I'm getting prompted whether I want to update this app rather than install. This will replace my development build with the preview build. Let's choose update. As [01:00] before I need to bypass this warning. Notice that this time we didn't need to start the development server. That's because in a preview build just like in production the app will be launched with the version of JavaScript it was bundled with.