Expo is a development framework that streamlines the process of building cross-platform mobile apps using React Native.

It eliminates the need for complex native code setup by providing pre-built APIs for common device features like the camera and GPS, making it easier to access hardware functionality.

It also simplifies the deployment process with built-in tools for building

and distributing apps. Charlie Cheever and James Ide are the co-founders of Expo, and they join the

podcast to talk about the framework and the problems it solves. Kevin Ball, or K-Ball, is the

vice president of engineering at Mento and an independent coach for engineers and engineering

leaders. He co-founded and served as CTO for two companies, founded the San Diego JavaScript

meetup, and organizes the AI inaction discussion group through latent space. Check out the show notes

to follow Kball on Twitter or LinkedIn or visit his website, kball.l. LLC.

Hey, guys. Welcome to the show. Hey, thanks for having us. Yeah, excited to have you on this.

So let's get started and maybe have each of you introduce yourselves briefly and then we'll get into the beat of the show.

Charlie, do you want to go first?

Yeah, sure.

I'm Charlie Cheever.

I grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, studied computer science in college, and I worked at Amazon and Facebook, and co-founded

Kora, and then took some time off and was so frustrated by how hard it seemed to build

anything in mobile. And that was the only thing I was interested on that I convinced James to

work with me on Expo, actually. Nice. And James? Hi, I'm James Eday. Yeah, I've been working with Charlie for over a decade now

on Expo. Similar feelings, like, it's just kind of like the holy grail for every company. If you look

to your left, look to your right, to be able to have one engineering team to be able to build

everywhere. I've always been into building software for other software engineers. And that's exactly what Expo does. So it's been a

great journey so far. Yeah. So let's get into it. Do you want to share for our audience,

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