Hello, Expo uses under the hood quite a variety of apis and such, which you might or might not use. This is done to enable over the air updates in case you end up using said packages later, which means the binaries are quite big.
I’ve recently tested making a build for an app I’ve been working on and so far it has quite a lot of screens and extra packages installed and it is around 48-50MB in size.
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