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I developed this react Native mobile application called "ClkApp". I Published my application using expo and I can see the application on my phone.

Now, I want to publish this application on Google play. I completed all the required steps including paid the fee of 25 dollars. One of the step requires that I generate a signed APK. I saw some tutorials how to generate the Signed APK and all of them build the application using android studio and go to Build -> Generate Signed APK. I tried to open my app on Android studio, but I don't see any option under Build menu other than "Analyze APK" and "deploy Module to app engine". there is another option called "make", but that is disabled. Below is the image:

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I created a new test application using android studio and I can see the options like generate signed APK, Build etc. for this test application. I don't want to create "ClkApp", my original app", application using android studio because that will take lot of time. Is their any way, I can generate the APK on this existing application and don't have to use android studio at all.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

GianhTran
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Anjali
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    Why don't you just use Expo for generating the apk?. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44301539/react-native-generate-apk-and-ipa-using-expo – Sunil Sunny Apr 16 '19 at 23:52

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Since you have build your app with Expo. You can use Expo to generate apk (standalone app)

After you configure app.json and run expo build:android

Check this for details https://docs.expo.io/versions/v32.0.0/distribution/building-standalone-apps/

sinan
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  • Thank You. I got the apk file from expo after running the command that you mentioned above. – Anjali Apr 23 '19 at 15:02