Expo Orbit

🎉 New features

• Use SF Symbols on macOS. (#325 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Improve launching tarballs with multi apps. (#324 by @gabrieldonadel)

💡 Others

• Add release automation scripts. (#327 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Add /devices route to local servers. (#326 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Migrate SystemIconView to Expo modules. (#329 by @gabrieldonadel)

🎉 New features

• Add support for setting the app launch url. (#319 by @gabrieldonadel)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix crash when opening app via deep link from cold start. (#320 by @gabrieldonadel)

💡 Others

• Add exp://*.on.expo.app/** and exp://*.on.staging.expo.app/** to default trusted sources. (#323 by @gabrieldonadel)

🎉 New features

• Add watchOS support. (#313 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Add support for launching macOS apps. (#315 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Improve iOS simulator boot and app install reliability. (#314 by @gabrieldonadel)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Hide horizontal scroll indicator in menu popover. (#305 by @gabrieldonadel)

💡 Others

• Upgrade to expo SDK 54 and react-native 0.81. (#254 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Optimize code for React 19. (#307 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Upgrade react-native-svg to 15.15.2. (#308 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Add localhost to local server whitelisted domains. (#317 by @gabrieldonadel)

🎉 New features

• Warn users when automatically switching devices. (#302 by @gabrieldonadel)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Limit the size of error alerts in menu-bar. (#288 by @douglowder)
• Fix launching Android apps that use activity-alias. (#301 by @gabrieldonadel)

💡 Others

• Upgrade to expo SDK 53 and react-native 0.79. (#254 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Update ESLint, eslint-config-universe and setups, bump TypeScript versions. (#261 by @Simek)
• Add macOS build script. (#262 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Simplify AppDelegate.m logic in to align with Expo's template. (#263 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Migrate AppDelegate to Swift. (#264 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Enable react compiler. (#272 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Upgrade react-native-svg-transformer to 1.5.1 (#273 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Improve setup instructions for contributors. (#271 by @altaywtf)
• Use expo-web-browser for authentication on macOS. (#276 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Upgrade react-native-macos to 0.79.0. (#290 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Update Orbit app and menu bar icons. (#299 by @gabrieldonadel)

🎉 New features

• Add support for configuring trusted sources for opening URLs via the CLI and menu-bar app. (#270, #275 by @altaywtf)
• Add support for deep linking with both expo-orbit:// and expo-orbit:///. (#279 by @oblador)
• Add support for launching multiple apps simultaneously. (#281 by @gabrieldonadel)

💡 Others

• Remove deprecated deeplink formats. (#280 by @gabrieldonadel)

🎉 New features

• Add support for displaying new project icons. (#260 by @Simek)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix cache check to return app path instead of directory. (#266 by @altaywtf)
• [electron] Fix multi-display popover position logic. (#265 by @gabrieldonadel)

🎉 New features

• Add a warning when developer mode is disabled on iOS. (#250 by @gabrieldonadel)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix "no such file" error when opening cached builds. (#256 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Ensure UsbmuxClient can load binary plist pair record data from Apple devices. (#257 by @gabrieldonadel)

💡 Others

• Add CLI archive build phase to macOS project. (#248 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Add arch info to Rudder module. (#252 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Upgrade react-native and react-native-macos to 0.76.9. (#258 by @gabrieldonadel)

🎉 New features

• [Windows] Add settings option to context menu. (#233 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Add support for opening APK files from Explorer on Windows and Linux. (#237 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Add support for opening projects directly in Expo Go through a deep link. (#241 by @gabrieldonadel)

💡 Others

• Upgrade react-native-macos to 0.76.6. (#232 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Add tracking simulator launches. (#246 by @gabrieldonadel)

🎉 New features

• Allow users to manually launch updates in Expo Go. (#226 by @gabrieldonadel)
• [Linux] Add support for auto updates. (#229 by @gabrieldonadel)

🐛 Bug fixes

• [macOS] Fix new NativeEventEmitter() requires a non-null argument error when clicking "See all". (#225 by @gabrieldonadel)
• [Linux] Add maintainer field to deb packages. (#227 by @gabrieldonadel)

Windows and Linux builds now available!

We're promoting Orbit for Windows to a stable version along with support for Linux. Try out Expo Orbit now, explore its capabilities, and share your feedback. Your input will shape the future of this tool and guide us on where to take it next.

Changelog

🎉 New features

• Add experimental support for Windows and Linux. (#152, #157, #158, #160, #161, #165, #170, #171, #172, #173, #174, #175, #177, #178, #180, #181, #182, #185, #191, #220 by @gabrieldonadel)

💡 Others

• Upgrade react-native to 0.76.1. (#217 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Upgrade to expo SDK 52. (#217, #219 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Upgrade react-native-svg to 15.8.X. (#217, #219 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Upgrade electron to 33.2.0. (#218 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Add github workflow to build for Windows and Linux. (#221 by @gabrieldonadel)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fixed CLI on x64 machines. (#215 by @gabrieldonadel)

💡 Others

• Show Debug Window in release mode. (#216 by @gabrieldonadel)

🎉 New features

• Automatically select the correct iOS device depending on app type. (#200 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Add support for self-signed certificates. (#208 by @gabrieldonadel)

💡 Others

• Update devices order to show physical devices first. (#197 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Improve listing connected Apple devices over Wi-Fi. (#199 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Upgrade react-native to 0.75.2. (#203, #209, by @gabrieldonadel)
• Upgrade to expo SDK 51. (#204, #212 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Upgrade react-native-svg to 15.2.0. (#204 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Add debug logs to debug menu. (#211 by @gabrieldonadel)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix extra avd info being displayed as a bootable android emulator. (#190 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Fix installing iOS apps from tarballs that don't contain an .app or .ipa file. (#193 by @gabrieldonadel)

💡 Others

• Add warning when trying to an iOS app in a incompatible device. (#194 by @gabrieldonadel)

Windows Preview 1 Now Available!

Orbit for Windows is currently in the experimental phase and, as of now, it is only compatible with x64 and x86 machines but compatibility for other architectures will be out soon!

Try out Expo Orbit now, explore its capabilities, and share your feedback. Your input will shape the future of this tool and guide us on where to take it next.

🎉 New features

• Add experimental support for Windows and Linux. (#152, #157, #158, #160, #161, #165, #170, #171, #172, #173, #174, #175, #177, #178, #180, #181, #182, #185, #191 by @gabrieldonadel)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix extra avd info being displayed as a bootable android emulator. (#190 by @gabrieldonadel)

🎉 New features

• Add support for launching Expo updates. (#134, #137, #138, #144, #148, #188 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Migrate Sparkle to Expo Modules. (#184 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Automatically handle installing incompatible Android app updates. (#187 by @gabrieldonadel)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Prevent CLI from returning invalid cached APKs when the download of the build fails. (#156 by @gabrieldonadel)

💡 Others

• Fix typo in error alert message. (#183 by @prettyClouds)

🎉 New features

• Cache builds by default. (#156 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Improve fatal CLI error handling. (#163,#166 by @gabrieldonadel)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fixed listing devices on x64 machines. (#164 by @gabrieldonadel)

💡 Others

• Use Expo CLI instead of react-native community CLI. (#155 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Add basic telemetry. (#168 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Bump snack-content@2.0.0 to preview 2. (#167 by @byCedric)

🎉 New features

• Add support for Snack EAS Update URLs to support SDK 50. (#147 by @bycedric)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix download progress bar not updating correctly. (#150, #153 by @gabrieldonadel)

💡 Others

• Install the expo package and set up autolinking for macOS. (#130 by @tsapeta)
• Remove AsyncStorage migrator and @react-native-async-storage/async-storage dependency. (#135 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Migrate Menubar to expo modules.(#133 by @alanhughes)
• Migrate FilePicker to Expo Modules. (#132 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Upgrade react-native to 0.73.2. (#143 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Upgrade react-native-svg to 14.1.0. (#143 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Migrate ProgressIndicator to Expo Modules. (#150 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Refactor deep-link routes to comply with the URL specification. (#151 by @gabrieldonadel)

🎉 New features

• Improve Snack support for older SDKs. (#117 by @gabrieldonadel)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix device selection logic when a simulator or device is no longer available. (#114 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Fix projects section height when the user has less than three projects. (#119 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Fix installing apps on Android physical devices. (#123 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Fix Settings window size when opening it from the context menu. (#127 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Fix osascript error when launching apps on the Simulator. (#139 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Improve popover height calculations when using multiple displays. (#140 by @gabrieldonadel)

💡 Others

• Upgrade @react-native-clipboard/clipboard to 1.13.1 and remove patch. (#116 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Configure EAS build workflow. (#115 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Refresh the Settings window UI. (#121 by @simek)
• Remove unused options from native main menu when the app is focused. (#128 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Upgrade react-native to 0.73.1. (#129 by @gabrieldonadel)

🎉 New features

• Automatically open popover when the user tries to reopen the app from the Dock or Spotlight. (#109 by @gabrieldonadel)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix installing EAS builds from cold start. (#108 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Fix onboarding command check loading status. (#110 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Fix undismissable Alerts. (#112 by @gabrieldonadel)

🎉 New features

• Add ability to show/hide different types of simulators, and add experimental TV support. (#77 by @douglowder, #84, #90, #91 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Add support for opening tarballs with multiple apps. (#73, #98 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Improve feedback to the user when an error occurs. (#64, #96 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Improve UI feedback when opening a snack project. (#88 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Added drag and drop support for installing apps. (#57 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Added support for installing apps directly from Finder. (#56 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Added local HTTP server to circumvent deep-link limitations. (#52, #53, #54, #55 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Added Projects section to the menu bar. (#46, #59, #83, #95 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Added support for login to Expo. (#41, #43, #44, #45, #62, #67, #89, #100, #101 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Focus simulator/emulator window when launching an app. (#75 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Add support for running iOS internal distribution apps on real devices. (#79 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Add support for opening snack projects on real iOS devices. (#92 by @gabrieldonadel)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix some build and running issues. (#69 by @douglowder)
• Fix build using Xcode 15. (#74 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Fix listing iOS connected devices. (#78 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Fix SystemIconView not reacting to Appearance changes. (#85 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Fix useDeepLinking hook initial URL. (#99 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Fix popover not closing when opening URLs. (#102 by @gabrieldonadel)

💡 Others

• Add check for missing changelogs. (#49 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Clean up eas-shared package. (#60 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Unify device types across menu-bar, cli and eas-shared package. (#66 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Upgrade react-native-svg to 13.14.0 and remove patch. (#70 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Upgrade react-native to 0.72.5. (#71 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Setup Lerna. (#72 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Migrate AsyncStorage records to react-native-mmkv. (#82 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Update Onboarding to rerun checks when focusing the window. (#93 by @gabrieldonadel)
• Upgrade @react-native-clipboard/clipboard to 1.12.1 and patch warnings. (#70 by @gabrieldonadel)