Coming soon

How to build a signed Expo Android release on Windows: every option compared

We are writing an honest, dated comparison of every way to get a signed Android App Bundle out of an Expo project when your development machine runs Windows, including when WinBuild is not the right choice.

Options it will cover

EAS Build in the cloud
eas build --local and its Windows support
WSL2 with the Linux toolchain
npx expo prebuild plus Gradle by hand, from Android Studio or the command line
Hosted CI with Linux runners
Community tools such as local-expo-build
WinBuild

How we will compare them

Cost, whether your code stays on your PC, setup time, what happens when the build breaks, and how the artifact is signed and checked before upload. Every price, limit and Windows-support claim will be checked against official sources and dated, and the page will be reviewed every quarter.

Until then, the short comparison on the home page summarises the main trade-offs.

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