Eject and build an APK manually (this guide)
Both ways work well and yield the working APKs, but the first one is of 26MB size while the second on if only 7MB!
Why “exp build” generates so large APK? Why the sizes of the same application APKs differ so much?
No, just regular “eject”, because I’m not using ExpoKit components at all.
The only Expo stuff that is being used - is the configuration in app.json and project boilerplate created with “create-react-native-app”