8 articles on getting started 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 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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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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App Store Connect is where most first-time developers lose a week to things nobody warned them about. Here is the order to do it in, the decisions that are hard to change later, and the fields that quietly block your submission.
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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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The most expensive app is the one nobody wanted. Before Claude Code writes a single screen, here is how to prove real demand for your idea so you spend your 90 days building something people actually download.
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David