react-native/local-cli/generator-android
Martin Konicek 702f999b05 Consume Android artifacts from npm
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).

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Reviewed By: bestander

Differential Revision: D2912557

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templates Consume Android artifacts from npm 2016-02-09 06:37:34 -08:00
index.js Make it clear Android emulator is the quickest way to get started 2015-11-03 04:05:27 -08:00