fixes#16310
We used to reply on `react-native cli` and would pass a `--device` flag to deploy the debug variant of `iOS` app on connected `iPhone`.
`react-native cli` under the hood uses `ios-deploy` library to achieve this functionality.
This showed many weird issues, specifically in locating connected devices and failures at build step with ambiguous error messages.
This commit fixes it by using our custom script `run-ios-devices.sh` which does not rely on `ios-deploy`.
We use `libimobiledevice` to identify `UDID` of a connected `iPhone`.
We use `xcrun devicectl device install app` and `xcrun devicectl device process launch` to install and launch the app.
This works well with `Xcode 15` and `iOS 17.x`.
We can now remove `ios-deploy` from `iOS` shell and `nix` overlay.
We also set up a logs folder and add a Readme.
## Review notes
- connect your iPhone to your Laptop via a cable
- `make run-clojure`
- `make run-ios-device`
(note: no need to pass device name now)
## Platforms
- iOS
## Summary
Improve iOS Simulator selection via `make run-ios` command.
Currently : `make run-ios SIMULATOR="iPhone SE (3rd generation)"` would fail because of our scripts inability to deal with this kind of a pattern.
This commit fixes that and makes this script more robust by storing output of `xcrun simctl list devices` in a json file `ios_simulators_list.json` and then using `jq` to properly get `UDIDs` of those simulators.
This script will now also prompt you to download a simulator image if you do not already have it.
The file `ios_simulators_list.json` will also help in future debugging when we want to check a quick summary of iOS simulator status of devs in the future.
We also append `-verbose` to `xcodebuild` for debug `iOS` builds, this helps debugging.
## Review notes
try such options -> `make run-ios SIMULATOR="iPhone SE (3rd generation)"`
## Platform
- iOS
fixes#18888
## Summary
`make run-android` was sometimes flaky because we used to send metro to background via `nohup` and then bring it back to foreground after we read metro logs.
Now we do not send metro to background. We first wait for a successful build.
we then install the app on the simulator. After this is done we give command to sleep until metro server has started, Once metro server has started we open the installed app.
In this workflow the command to open the installed app goes in background and metro stays in foreground.
The new workflow should now be less flaky.
## Review notes
`make run-clojure`
`make run-android` OR `make run-ios` should just work
#### Platforms
- Android
- iOS
fixes#18836
## Summary
While introducing https://github.com/status-im/status-mobile/pull/18784 I missed out on adding an install step to `run-ios.sh` script.
`make run-ios` would work fine for simulators that already have the app installed but would fail for new emulators.
@flexsurfer discovered this problem.
This commit fixes that by adding an install step to the script.
## Review notes
- `make run-clojure`
- `make run-ios`
should just work.
## Platforms
- iOS
After upgrading `react-native` to `0.72.5` we frequently started seeing the _red screen of death_ on both `Android` and `iOS` simulators right after the app was built and installed.
This used to happen because our workflow required us to do the following :
- `make run-clojure`
- `make run-metro`
- `make run-ios` OR `make run-android`
The problem with this approach was after `metro` was started the `iOS`, `Android` build step would change the files that `metro` couldn't handle and hence metro would go out of sync.
The quick fix back then was to restart `metro` terminal and to open the app again from the simulator.
This was however not a good DX.
This commit fixes that.
We no longer rely on `react-native` cli to generate and deploy debug builds on simulators. We take control of the process via our own script. The new workflow introduced in this commit will first build the app, then install the app on the simulators and then start metro terminal. When `metro` is successfully running the script will then open the app.
The new workflow now is :
- `make run-clojure`
- `make run-ios` OR `make run-android`
Siddarth Kumar
Aleksandr Pantiukhov
Roman Volosovskyi