I working on a mobile app that utilizes locations from the api provided by Expo. I need to test different accuracies and that requires publishing different versions of the app.

I want to test accuracy: 6, accuracy: 5, accuracy: 4, accuracy: 1

So far I published a default channel with the accuracy being 6. Do I just change the code that is responsible for the accuracy, save it (not commit and push it to git, just saved it), and then publish it expo publish --release-channel accuracy5?

Am I missing something?

Also, how does one delete a channel published?

https://docs.expo.dev/archive/classic-updates/release-channels/?redirected DOCS I used.

I changed the code, saved it and then published it. I just want to be sure that it did indeed publish with the altered accuracy value.

CodePudding user response：

If you're just trying to test different versions of the app through Expo Go, then different release-channels (therefore QR codes / urls) may be a viable approach.

Regarding testing what you have published, one of the best ways is to utilize expo publish:history that would give you the history of different publishing, it can give you the channel and publicationId that you can then use in expo publish:details --publish-id <THE_PUBLISH_ID>.

Then you can either take a look at the actual published bundle under s3Url, or better just rely on some extra metadata that has been updated with this publish (e.g. you can change a version to smth like 1.0.0-accuracy5). The same way you can just make some dummy visual app change to see the newer version reflected in the new channel.