Expo EAS Update ships OTA bundles for projects that adopt the Expo managed workflow. Sankofa Deploy ships OTA bundles for any React Native project — Expo-managed, bare workflow, or fully custom — with feature-flag gating and automatic rollback bonded to first-party crash detection.
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No. Sankofa replaces the OTA bundle delivery leg of your release pipeline. You can keep EAS Build for native binaries, Expo SDK for runtime APIs, and any other Expo services you depend on. Sankofa Deploy is scoped to the JavaScript bundle push.
Yes. The SDK is a drop-in alongside `expo-updates`. You configure Sankofa's update server URL and point your app at it.
Sankofa Switch flag gates supersede channels. Instead of maintaining staging / production / beta channels manually, you gate releases on a Switch cohort or percentage rollout — same outcome, more flexible targeting.
EAS Update meters updates served. Sankofa Deploy publishes per-tier pricing with no per-update overage. Bundle Deploy with Switch and Catch for the platform discount.
Same SDK contract on every platform. Self-host or use Sankofa Cloud — your call.