64-Bit Support and Android App Bundles

You can now build 64-bit enabled .apks, and use Android App Bundles, with your SDK33 projects.

We want to let you know that you can now build 64-bit support-enabled .apks that also make use of Android App Bundles (AABs) with SDK33 projects and, of course, with SDK34 upon its release. (Since SDK33 is the first Expo SDK version that uses React Native 0.59, the React Native version that allows for 64-bit support, prior versions of the SDK can’t be updated.)

These updates help us support your new submissions to the Google Play store, which will need to have 64-bit support starting August 1st. Your existing apps won’t need to upgrade to include 64-bit until you need to submit your next app update (though SDK33 has a lot of other fun things you might enjoy!).

Ensure you are running the latest version of expo-cli by running yarn global add expo-cli or npm install -g expo-cli

For Managed projects

Run the command expo build:android -t app-bundle.
(64-bit support is enabled automatically so no additional flags are required.)

For Bare projects

Ensure you’re using RN 0.59+, then follow this guide written by Andrii Drozdov.

For ExpoKit projects

Ensure you’re running ExpoKit version 33.0.4 or higher, then follow the same guide for the Bare workflow above.

If you have questions, please don’t hesitate to head to our forums so we can help you out!