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Setup

In this course, you will be building the native app on your local machine. For this you will need to set up your native build environment.

We will start the workshop in Expo Go, so if you don't already have your native dev env set up, do this now.

If building the iOS app​

Download Xcode now. It's a 3.5 GB download so it will take a while. After you've downloaded it, launch it once. You'll be prompted to download some simulators which is an additional ~1 GB download.

After the download is done, refer to the React Native docs which has step by step instructions for setting up for iOS development on MacOS.

If building for Android​

Download Android Studio.

After the download is done, refer to the React Native docs which has step by step instructions for setting up for Android development on MacOS, Windows or Linux.