--- title: Building Fully Native iOS Apps with Expo EAS | daily.dev description: A step-by-step guide to configuring Expo EAS (Expo Application Services) to build a fully native iOS app written in SwiftUI — without React Native at the core.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/building-fully-native-ios-apps-with-expo-eas-h6safqjae twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Building Fully Native iOS Apps with Expo EAS | daily.dev og:description: A step-by-step guide to configuring Expo EAS (Expo Application Services) to build a fully native iOS app written in SwiftUI — without React Native at the core.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-fully-native-ios-apps-with-expo-eas-h6safqjae og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/H6sAFqjae.png og:image:alt: Building Fully Native iOS Apps with Expo EAS og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Building Fully Native iOS Apps with Expo EAS **[Software Mansion](https://daily.dev/sources/swmansion)** · 13 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A step-by-step guide to configuring Expo EAS (Expo Application Services) to build a fully native iOS app written in SwiftUI — without React Native at the core. Covers creating an Xcode project with external Swift Package dependencies, installing and configuring EAS CLI, writing a custom build configuration YAML that symlinks the project root as the iOS directory, defining build profiles in eas.json, running builds locally and on EAS cloud, and setting up EAS Workflows for CI/CD automation including triggers and post-build actions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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