I start using Team City and my app builds with react native version 0.60.5...
I was wondering what will be the best and the easier way to build my app for iOS and android.
For iOS I was thinking using the Xcode plug.
For android I'm thinking to use Docker but its complicated and taking time to develop..
Does someone has any recommendation what to use for building my android app or Docker is a good solution?
And about the iOS, are you recommend use the Xcode plug or any other idea?
Thank you for the help
You can easily use TeamCity to automatize your build for Android, check the official documentation for more information:
You just need to be careful specifying the requirements for build your project for React Native, like:
version of react native, version of expo-cli, version of node that you are using in your project and etc...
For IOS, i recommend using fastlane, check this official tutorial from Apple.
Don't forget that you need to have an developer account for build to ios in React-Native.
I have two applications one is running on android java,the other one is a cordova application. I need to use the android functionality on the cordova app. is therere a workround to this? I have been scratching my head for a week.
I have looked into Android plugins but i don't really know how to glue them together. I know Cordova can communicate back and forth with native code. But since i am an android developer and i have little idea on how cordova works with plugins Am Stuck with just my plain Android App built on java.
If you have a custom requirement, then your best shot is creating a plugin for Cordova which is well documented in the cordova docs. It will guide you on how to build as well as publish a plugin for Cordova.
Once you publish a plugin, you can add it using
cordova plugin add <plugin_name>
I was wondering if FlutterFire's Firestore uses the same cache as the Android and iOS native Firestore libraries.
Current setup:
We have the app written for Android and iOS separately using the native Android/iOS client library for the platform.
Future setup:
We still have most parts of the app written in Android and iOS using the native libraries, but some parts may be written in Flutter to start sharing more and more code.
We would like to use FlutterFire in the Flutter parts.
Now I'm wondering if the Firestore Flutter SDK will share the cache with the native SDKs, so we don't accidentally cache the same things twice on one device, just because of the dual setup of Flutter with existing native code.
The Flutter SDK for Firestore is just a wrapper around the native SDKs for Android and iOS, so I'm fairly certain that direct access from the native SDK is effectively the same as access via Flutter, and they will use the same local cache.
The recently launched react native features just iOS app example and docs.
Yes.
React Native for Android was released September 14th, 2015.
Docs: http://facebook.github.io/react-native/
No. You can't build Android apps with this release.
Facebook has indicated that they are working on an Android version, and famously said "give us 6 months", which some people have taken as a promise. I wouldn't base any important business decisions on the illusion that it will be unveiled when the 6 months is over, but you can at least take some hope in the fact that they're serious about making it production-ready before they give us access to it, and that it's not just a pie-in-the-sky hope.
Also, as others have pointed out, Facebook has already release apps that they've built with the Android version of React Native. So at least parts of it are ready for prime time.
UPDATE
Early support for React Native for Android has been pushed to GitHub!
As noted, there are several things that are currently not working if trying to port an application from iOS. But it's worth checking out.
https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/42eb5464fd8a65ed84b799de5d4dc225349449be
It is not aiming to be a cross platform, write-once run-anywhere, tool. It is aiming to be learn-once write-anywhere. -Colin Eberhardt, from Raywenderlich
Good news is that React Native for Android is finally here. (https://code.facebook.com/posts/1189117404435352)
while you can't do it right now, it shouldn't take that long.
The first React Native Android App has been published about two weeks ago in the play store as tweeted by the reactjs twitter account:
https://twitter.com/reactjs/status/615638361328349185
Great news! Now its possible!
"And so it happens, the commit we're waiting since about 6 months!" - usereact.com
Please read more on: http://www.reactnative.com/react-native-for-android/
Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNNR01NF290
I've tried out Facebook react native on Android and it really worked.
Simple Ubuntu install guide can be found here
Simple js files: link
Yes , We can now developed android apps too in react-native.
and some of the apps are already developed in react-native for android
suchs as:
1)F8
2)Facebook ads manager
3)Squad
4)Discovery VR
5)Ziliun etc..
and many more still counting.
Developers from around the world now opting react-native for mobile app development because of easy of use of JSX syntax.
and also it is commonly noted as simply the V in MVC.
Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easily embeddable within an existing non-React Native app.
TLDR; Yes,
Detailed answer (As of November 2017)
React Native android application development is very stable and a good number of Android applications have been already built and used in production using React-Native.
You can find a showcase of applications here. Most of them have both IOS and Android versions.
You can also easily integrate your native Android java code to react-native. Refer here
As a developer who is building Android app using react-native with a lot of native java code dependencies, react-native runs stable and I found the documentation and community support is adequate.
Yes, it works for both the platforms ios and android, be sure to mention code entry points in app.js if it uses different code for different platforms. However native functions like native events or location manager need to be coded in native languages and then exported using RCT_EXPORT, you can find more about it in the docs
Sure,
Using React Native you can build real mobile app. real app means close to platform or simply can say 99% native app.react native provide easy way for building native android app using javascript for lucrative design.You have basic knowledge of android studio and error fixing in android studio related native module integration and good understanding of react.js then you can build android app using react native.
Basic Requirement for android app
1. Configure android studio please follow below link and avoid installation of python.
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started .
2. for UI you will learn flex-box from official documentation.
I thing that is enough
Yes, not just with android but also with iOS using XCode
Yes, you can make real-world mob application with React-Native. React-Native is used to create a hybrid mobile application. In this, we write code in javascript which gets converted to swift for ios and java for android.
Yes, You can build the Android app using React Native. For this, you have to install Android Studio with all the required SDKs. You can run your React Native app in Android simulator by using Android Studio and command line both.
For command line, run the following command:
react-native run-android
Otherwise you can open the android project in Android Studio which is created by React Native in android folder and run the project from there.
Happy Coding.. :)
Yes, you can definitely build android apps using react-native.This is one of the great benefits of React Native. Before Facebook created it, you had to build your app twice and with different code : one for iOS using Swift or Objective-C and one for Android using Java or Kotlin.
I am trying to get started with phonegap/cordova for developing mobile apps.
Still a lil confused by the getting started part of the website
http://docs.phonegap.com/
In one place,CLI installation instructions, they say to install cordova.
IN another place,Phonegap installation instructions, they say to install phonegap.
What's going on here? Do we need both? What is the difference in roles of each one?
PhoneGap is a distribution of Apache Cordova. You can think of Apache Cordova as the engine that powers PhoneGap, similar to how WebKit is the engine that powers Chrome or Safari. (Browser geeks, please allow me the affordance of this analogy and I’ll buy you a beer later.)
Over time, the PhoneGap distribution may contain additional tools that tie into other Adobe services, which would not be appropriate for an Apache project. For example, PhoneGap Build and Adobe Shadow together make a whole lot of strategic sense. PhoneGap will always remain free, open source software and will always be a free distribution of Apache Cordova.
Currently, the only difference is in the name of the download package and will remain so for some time.
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The PhoneGap CLI is built on top of the Cordova CLI. It has all of the functionality that the Cordova CLI has. The main difference is that the PhoneGap CLI has PhoneGap Build integration. So if you don’t have the native SDK installed, you can delegate compilation to the PhoneGap Build cloud service and get app-store ready mobile apps. Both tools are completely interoperable.
No, you don't. PhoneGap should include all of the commands that Cordova provides. It provides a cloud-based build feature, which Cordova does not.
The documentation on phonegap.com would benefit from clarifying its use of 'cordova' vs. 'phonegap'. Right now, it is too easy for new developers to get confused over which commands are relevant.