If you're a React Native or Expo developer, you've probably experienced this frustration: you just want to test your app on an Android emulator, but every guide tells you to install the massive Android Studio IDE. Suddenly you're downloading gigabytes of tools you'll never use, your shell is polluted with Java paths and Android environment variables, and your pristine development setup feels bloated.
You don't want to become an Android developer. You just want to see your cross-platform app running on an Android device.
Maybe you're like me:
- You use Expo with EAS Build for all your native builds