Android Platform

Overview

• Latest Android project
• Kotlin Support
• Support for Gradle 4.9

Requirements

• Android Studio for Android development
• Android SDK 23.0.1 or newer for Android development
• Windows 10 Pro or a better variant if you want to start the emulator on a Windows machine. Windows Home or Educational do not support Hyper-V and that's required for starting the Android emulators

Project Configuration

Feature	Version
Gradle	4.10.1
Android Gradle	3.3.1
Kotlin	1.3.20
Target SDK	27

Emulators

You can create variety of emulators via Android Studio IDE

Android X support

Requires:

1. Install Jetifier:

npm i -S -E jetifier

1. renative.json

"platforms": {
    "android": {
      "enableAndroidX": true,
      "gradle.properties": {
         "android.useDeprecatedNdk": true,
         "android.enableJetifier": true,
         "android.useAndroidX": true
      }
   }
}

2. package.json

"scripts" : {
  "postinstall": "jetify"
}

Run on Simulator

rnv start
rnv run -p android

Run on Device

rnv start
rnv run -p android -d

Deploy on Device

This will run production version on your device (not connected to metro bundler) You can configure each buildScheme ie -s release in your config file ./appConfigs/<YOUR_APP_CONFIG>/renative.json

rnv start
rnv run -p android -s release -d

Advanced

Clean and Re-build platform project

rnv run -p android -r

Launch specific android emulator:

rnv target launch -p android -t Nexus_5X_API_26

Launch app with specific iOS simulator (let ReNative to give you the list of available options):

rnv run -p android -t ?

Launch specific emulator :

rnv target launch -p android -t Nexus_5X_API_26

Launch specific emulator (let ReNative to give you the list of available options):

rnv target launch -p android -t ?

Get list of all available devices

rnv target list -p android

Get device/simulator logs

rnv log -p android

Get device/simulator logs with filter

rnv log -p android -f com.myapp

App Config

see: Android based config