Nicholas C. Zakas 6/26/2026

Testing Android apps with Expo on physical devices

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This article provides a step-by-step guide for web developers using Expo to test React Native apps on physical Android devices. It covers setting up Android Studio, enabling USB debugging, generating development builds with expo-dev-client, starting a local dev server with --localhost flag, and configuring reverse proxies via adb to connect the device to localhost. The approach works even when the dev server runs in WSL, enabling full local API backend testing.

Testing Android apps with Expo on physical devices

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