[yjftsjthsd-h]

> Meet eas-like-local-builder: a Docker image built to streamline local Expo Android app builds, mirroring the Expo Application Services (EAS) environment for local builds

Okay, so my guess is that this is for building Android apps from source? But I don't know what Expo/EAS are and that seems important

[raihansaputra]

Expo is a framework for React Native based mobile app development. Honestly it's more integrated than Next.js on React. Expo offers a lot of plugins and components to speed up and streamline the development. You can develop using the Expo Application Services, which is Expo's cloud service which offers automatic builds for both Android and iOS. It's a good offer as setting these up locally is finicky (node <-> react native <-> expo <-> ios/android deps (pods/maven) <-> xcode / jdk versions must be compatible). Having a local option like this image is great for cost and iteration speed.