17 articles on claude code for app builders shipping to the App Store and Google Play.
How to add haptic feedback to your Expo app: install expo-haptics, then call the right method for the moment - selectionAsync for pickers, impactAsync for taps and gestures, notificationAsync for outcomes. Here is the exact mapping, the reason the simulator stays silent, and the one rule that keeps haptics from feeling cheap.
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How to add a splash screen to your Expo app: install expo-splash-screen, point the config plugin at a centered logo image with a background color, hold the splash with preventAutoHideAsync until your first screen is ready, then hide it. Here is the exact setup - plus the Android 12 rule and the white-flash fix most builders miss.
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How to add Google Sign-In to your Expo app: create OAuth client IDs in Google Cloud, install the auth module, trigger the sign-in flow, and exchange the token for your own session. Here is the exact flow - plus the Guideline 4.8 rule that means adding Google login forces you to add Apple login too.
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How to add Sign in with Apple to your Expo app: install expo-apple-authentication, enable the capability in app.json, render the native button, and exchange the identity token for your own session. Here is the exact flow - and the Guideline 4.8 rule that forces you to offer it whenever you use a third-party login.
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How to request permissions in your Expo app: install the right permission module, write a clear purpose string for every permission you ask for, request access at the moment the user needs it, and handle a denial gracefully. Here is the exact flow - and the missing purpose string that gets first-time apps rejected.
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Adding dark mode to your Expo app means detecting the system color scheme, theming every component from one central palette, and handling the edge cases that trip up first-time builders. Here is the exact setup - useColorScheme, a typed theme object, styled components, and how Claude Code wires it all in one pass.
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How to set up Supabase with Expo: install the JS client, store the session with Expo SecureStore, enable Row-Level Security on every table, and let Claude Code write the repetitive boilerplate. Here is the exact setup that keeps your app store submission clean and your user data locked down.
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How to write an app store description: lead with your single biggest benefit in the first two lines (the only text visible before 'more'), keep paragraphs to three lines, and skip the feature list in favor of outcome sentences. Here is the exact structure, the character limits that matter, and how to use Claude Code to draft and iterate fast.
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How to add a widget to your Expo app: widgets are native extensions that live outside your JavaScript bundle, so they need a config plugin and a small Swift or Kotlin target. Here is the exact setup for iOS WidgetKit and Android App Widgets using Expo Modules, plus how Claude Code handles the boilerplate.
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How to make an app icon for the App Store: export one 1024x1024 pixel PNG with no transparency and no rounded corners, point Expo at it, and let the system round it. Here is the exact size, the format rule that rejects most first icons, the Android adaptive version, and how I get all of it done fast with Claude Code.
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Environment variables in an Expo app split into two kinds, and treating them the same is how a secret ends up shipped inside your bundle. Here is the one distinction that decides everything, how to wire public values through app config and private ones through EAS, and the safe way to read each in a production build.
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Automating your App Store screenshots means scripting the capture, framing, and export so a new build produces store-ready images without you opening a design tool. Here is the three-layer pipeline I run with Claude Code and Maestro, plus the exact sizes Apple asks for in 2026.
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Expo Go and a development build look the same until you add one native module. Here is the exact list of features that force a development build, how to tell before you start wiring one up, and how to fold that build step into a Claude Code and Expo workflow without slowing down early development.
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A Guideline 4.2 rejection means Apple decided your app does not offer enough beyond a repackaged website to earn a spot on the App Store. Here is what minimum functionality actually requires, why apps built fast with Claude Code and Expo are more likely to trip it, and the concrete features that clear it.
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A CLAUDE.md file is the project memory Claude Code reads automatically every time you open your Expo app, in the terminal or the desktop app, so it stops guessing at your stack and conventions. Here is what I actually put in mine, why an Expo app needs its own instead of a generic one, and where it goes so Claude Code finds it without being told.
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Claude Code and Expo have genuinely lowered the barrier to shipping a real native app. Here is the practical path from idea to App Store for non-developers.
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You do not need to learn Swift or hire a $10K developer to get a real app on your phone. Here is the week-one plan I use with Claude Code and Expo to go from a plain-English idea to a working app you can hold in your hand.
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