Deployment Overview
Describe an app, and AppX generates and validates the real thing — a working React Native (Expo) app you can test on your phone when the build is ready. This page explains the two things "deployment" means in AppX and where to go for each.
The two halves of deployment
1. Live preview (automatic)
Once AppX has generated your app, it runs in a hosted environment and serves a live preview. Click Open on phone, scan the QR code, and the app opens in your phone's browser (on Android, in Expo Go too). Every edit is applied to that preview — no rebuild on your side.
You don't have to set anything up. Preview is on from the first screen.
2. Getting it to other people (on demand)
When the app is ready for an audience, you have three paths:
- Share a link — Share gives a link that opens the running app in a browser.
- Download the code — the full Expo project as a ZIP, on every plan.
- Publish to the App Store and Google Play — a real person from AppX does it with you, with a written price first. See Publishing.
The Share link
Share gives a link that opens the running app in a browser. Anyone with the link can open it; they do not get access to your AppX workspace. Use it to:
- Send a client or teammate a working app to click through
- Drop a link into a proposal or pitch deck
- Check the app yourself from any device
For the phone version, send the QR from Open on phone; it opens in their phone's browser, and on Android in Expo Go too.
Your code
Every plan includes the full code download: click Download code in the project's top bar and you get the whole React Native (Expo) project as a ZIP. Run it locally, hand it to a developer, or put it on GitHub.
Publishing to the app stores
Store publishing is a service done by a real person, with you. You send a store request from your project, we review the app and send a written price, and only if you say yes do we sign the app, prepare the store listing together, and submit it. Apple and Google make the final decision. See Publishing.