How to configure ejected application to work offline?

[cseelus]

Afaik its not currently possible to bundle assets in standalone apps. This should be supported with Expo 23 or later.

https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/introduction/why-not-expo.html

Why are Expo apps so slow to open?

I have an app with a few thousand users and growing. A complaint of my users and something that I see reflected in the metrics is that the app takes a really long time to open, especially with a bad internet connection. do you find this is the case more on ios than android recently? we switched over android to check for a new manifest / js bundle in the background, but haven’t done this yet for ios. another contributing factor is assets: if you use the AppLoading api, the splash screen remai…