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Get the App

Section titled “Get the App”

The Jetonomy app is published under your developer accounts, as your app - your icon, your name - reading its branding from your WordPress site.

What You Will Learn

Section titled “What You Will Learn”
  • How to get the app source
  • What it takes to publish your own branded app
  • The accounts and tools involved (and the no-EAS alternatives)

The Communities screen, where a member can switch between several Jetonomy communities or add another

Getting the app source

Section titled “Getting the app source”

The app source is not publicly downloadable. To get a copy - whether you want to build it yourself or have it built for you - contact Wbcom and ask for mobile app access.

Once you have the source, it runs in Expo Go, so you can see it on a real phone before publishing anything:

  1. Install Expo Go (free) on a phone from the App Store / Play Store
  2. On a computer with Node.js, from the app folder run:
    Terminal window
    npm install
    npx expo start
  3. Scan the QR code with Expo Go (Android) or the Camera app (iPhone)
  4. Sign in with your site address + an Application Password

Publish your own branded app

Section titled “Publish your own branded app”

This puts your app - your icon and name - in the App Store and Google Play under your own developer accounts.

You provide (one time):

  • A free Expo account
  • An Apple Developer account ($99/year) for the App Store
  • A Google Play account ($25 one time) for the Play Store

Then build and submit:

Terminal window
npm i -g eas-cli
eas login
eas init
eas build --profile production --platform all
eas submit

Not technical? You only need to create the three accounts. A developer - or the Wbcom team as a one-time setup - can do the rest and hand you the live app.

Prefer not to use Expo’s cloud (EAS)?

Section titled “Prefer not to use Expo’s cloud (EAS)?”

The app is built with Expo, but EAS (Expo’s paid cloud build service) is optional. You can build for free with eas build --local on your own Mac, or run npx expo prebuild and build the native projects in Xcode and Android Studio, or use Fastlane / Codemagic / GitHub Actions. A Mac with Xcode is required for iOS, and the Apple and Google accounts are required to publish (Apple’s rules, not Expo’s).

Getting help

Section titled “Getting help”

Branding and member sign-in are covered here in these docs - see Brand Your App and Connect Members. For anything specific to building and submitting your app, contact Wbcom; the same request that gets you the source gets you the build walkthrough for your setup.

Next steps

Section titled “Next steps”