Summary:
This lets us say goodbye to Maven Central. This will greatly simplify
and speed up the release process as releasing Android artifacts to
Maven Central adds a lot of [complexity](https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/Releases-publish.md)
and delays the whole release by several hours when we have to wait
for the artifacts to propagate.
This diff assumes there's a local Maven repo at
`node_modules/react-native/android`.
The second part once this lands is to change our `release.sh` script to
output the artifacts under `react-native/android` before publishing to
npm.
This adds 3.7MB to the size of `node_modules` of any app. However,
we just download eagerly what we'd normally download later via Gradle.
**Test plan**
Released RN including a local Maven repo into Sinopia:
$ cd react-native
# Updated version in gradle.properties to 0.21.0
$ ./gradlew ReactAndroid:installArchives
# Moved everything in .m2/repository/com/facebook/react to react-native/android
$ ls react-native/android
com/facebook/react/react-native/0.21.0/react-native-0.21.0.aar
com/facebook/react/react-native/0.21.0/react-native-0.21.0.pom
com/facebook/react/react-native/maven-metadata.xml
...
# Set version in package.json to 0.21.0
$ npm set registry http://localhost:4873/
$ npm publish
Created and ran an app:
$ cd /tmp
$ react-native init AndroidNpm
$ cd AndroidNpm
$ react-native run-android
It worked.
Checked that we're using the artifacts from node_modules/react-native/android:
$ cd android
$ ./gradlew app:dependencies
compile - Classpath for compiling the main sources.
+--- com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.0.1
| \--- com.android.support:support-v4:23.0.1
| \--- com.android.support:support-annotations:23.0.1
\--- com.facebook.react:react-native:+ -> 0.21.0
+--- com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305:3.0.0
+--- com.facebook.stetho:stetho-okhttp:1.2.0
...
Checked that Android Studio can find the source jars (you can navigate to RN sources in Android Studio). Opened the new project as described in the [docs](https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/android-setup.html#editing-your-app-s-java-code-in-android-studio).
public
Reviewed By: bestander
Differential Revision: D2912557
fb-gh-sync-id: 251c180518a3fb9bb8e80963b236e982d65533be
shipit-source-id: 251c180518a3fb9bb8e80963b236e982d65533be
This is an early release and there are several things that are known
not to work if you're porting your iOS app to Android.
See the Known Issues guide on the website.
We will work with the community to reach platform parity with iOS.
