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(React Native) Expo: Build using Turtle CLI

Description

Publish an app to Expo's servers and build an iOS App Store .ipa and an Android .aab file from your Expo project using Turtle CLI.

Prerequisites

  1. Generate an iOS Distribution Certificate and an App Store Provisioning Profile based on the Generating iOS code signing files guide.

  2. Generate an Android Keystore by following the Android code signing with Android Studio guide.

  3. Make sure you can Publish your Expo project locally.

Instructions

  1. Open your app on Bitrise.

  2. Click the Workflows button on the main page.

  3. Go to the Code Signing & Files tab.

  4. Make sure that the project's iOS Distribution Certificate and App Store Provisioning Profile are uploaded.

    If not, add them in the Add Provisioning Profile(s) and the Add a certificate (.p12 file) for code signing, respectively.

  5. Make sure that the project's Android Keystore file is uploaded.

    If not, drag-and-drop your keystore file to the Upload file (max. 5 MB) field of the ANDROID KEYSTORE FILE section.

  6. Go to the Secrets tab.

  7. Create a Secret (IOS_DEVELOPMENT_TEAM) with the ID of the iOS Development Team issued in the project's Certificate and Provisioning Profile.

  8. Store the Expo account's username and password used for publishing in EXPO_USERNAME and EXPO_PASSWORD Secrets.

  9. Go to the bitrise.yml tab.

  10. Copy paste envs from bitrise.yml below to your Workflow.

  11. Copy paste steps from bitrise.yml below to your Workflow.

    The built .ipa and .aab files are exposed via BITRISE_IPA_PATH and BITRISE_AAB_PATH Env Vars.

bitrise.yml

  turtle_build:
    envs:
    - KEYSTORE_PATH: /tmp/keystore.jks
    - KEYSTORE_ALIAS: $BITRISEIO_ANDROID_KEYSTORE_ALIAS
    - EXPO_ANDROID_KEYSTORE_PASSWORD: $BITRISEIO_ANDROID_KEYSTORE_PASSWORD
    - EXPO_ANDROID_KEY_PASSWORD: $BITRISEIO_ANDROID_KEYSTORE_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD
    - PROFILE_PATH: /tmp/profile.mobileprovision
    - CERTIFICATE_PATH: /tmp/certificate.p12
    - EXPO_IOS_DIST_P12_PASSWORD: $BITRISE_CERTIFICATE_PASSPHRASE
    # Define these in your secrets
    - IOS_DEVELOPMENT_TEAM: $IOS_DEVELOPMENT_TEAM
    - EXPO_USERNAME: $EXPO_USERNAME
    - EXPO_PASSWORD: $EXPO_PASSWORD
    steps:
    - script@1:
        title: Install dependencies
        inputs:
        - content: |-
            #!/usr/bin/env bash
            set -ex

            node --version
            fastlane --version

            npm install -g turtle-cli
            turtle --version

            npm install -g expo-cli
            expo --version
    - file-downloader@1:
        title: Download Android Keystore
        inputs:
        - destination: $KEYSTORE_PATH
        - source: $BITRISEIO_ANDROID_KEYSTORE_URL
    - file-downloader@1:
        title: Download iOS Certificate
        inputs:
        - destination: $CERTIFICATE_PATH
        - source: $BITRISE_CERTIFICATE_URL
    - file-downloader@1:
        title: Download iOS Provisioning Profile
        inputs:
        - destination: $PROFILE_PATH
        - source: $BITRISE_PROVISION_URL
    - npm@1:
        title: Install project dependencies
        inputs:
        - command: install
    - set-java-version@1:
        title: Set Java version to Java 8
        inputs:
        - set_java_version: "8"
    - script@1:
        title: Run Expo publish
        inputs:
        - content: |-
            #!/usr/bin/env bash
            set -ex

            expo login -u $EXPO_USERNAME -p $EXPO_PASSWORD --non-interactive
            expo publish
    - script@1:
        title: Run Turtle build
        inputs:
        - content: |-
            #!/usr/bin/env bash
            set -ex

            turtle setup:android
            aab_path=$BITRISE_DEPLOY_DIR/expo-project.aab
            turtle build:android --type app-bundle --keystore-path $KEYSTORE_PATH --keystore-alias $KEYSTORE_ALIAS -o $aab_path
            envman add --key BITRISE_AAB_PATH --value $aab_path

            turtle setup:ios
            ipa_path=$BITRISE_DEPLOY_DIR/expo-project.ipa
            turtle build:ios --team-id $IOS_DEVELOPMENT_TEAM --dist-p12-path $CERTIFICATE_PATH --provisioning-profile-path $PROFILE_PATH -o $ipa_path
            envman add --key BITRISE_IPA_PATH --value $ipa_path
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