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
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