Switch from Expo to bare React native

Question

After giving the command expo build:android to generate .apk file for my project. The size of the app was too big (60MB). So, I went through certian websites, Most of them are showing that I need to eject expo and generate an apk in bare react-native-cli. Is there any method to reduce the size of an expo app? or should I go with bare react-native-cli. If it is a yes, can you provide steps to achieve this?

Answer 1

Cross answering from here. In your app.json make the following changes

"expo": {
...
  "android": {
    "enableDangerousExperimentalLeanBuilds": true
  }
}

And you can use

expo build:android -t app-bundle

This will create an Android Application Bundle which is a publishing format.