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Boilerplate Ignite for Android using React Native on a Linux Platform

I am trying to integrate Boilerplate for Android using React Native on Ubuntu 16.04 but i don't know where to start and what to do next .
So far I did the steps below :
1)Install React-Native on Linux Platform
1. Install NodeJs and npm:
$sudo apt install curl
$curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash –
$sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
Check the version of nodejs:
$node -v
Or
$nodejs -v
Check the version of npm:
$npm -v
Install the create-react-native-app:
$sudo npm install -g create-react-native-app
Create the first project:
$create-react-native-app MyFirstProject
Move to the project directory using:
$cd MyFirstProject/
Using the next command, the development server will start:
$npm start
2)I installed Java:
$sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
$sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-set-default
3)I installed Android :
Downloaded “All Android Studio Packages” archive from:
https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Extract the archive file into an appropriate location:
$sudo unzip android-studio-ide-141.2178183-linux.zip -d /opt
Lunch Android:
$./studio.sh.

The next steps would be to open the Android SDK Manager within Studio and install the API version you're targeting and any System images you'll like to run in order to get an emulator (assuming you're not using a physical device)
You'll also need to set ANDROID_HOME environment variable so React knows where the Android build tools are
For example, edit your bash profile
export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Android/Sdk
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools
Your SDK would be under /opt, possibly
Eventually, run your code with react-native run-android

How to install Android SDK on Ubuntu?

For my Ubuntu machine, I downloaded the latest version of Android SDK from this page.
After extracting the downloaded .tgz file, I was trying to search for installation instructions and found:
To get started on Linux:
Unpack the .zip file you've downloaded. The SDK files are download separately to a user-specified directory.
Make a note of the name and location of the SDK directory on your system—you will need to refer to the SDK directory later when using the SDK tools from the command line.
What exactly are we supposed to do?

Option 1:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install android-sdk
The location of Android SDK on Linux can be any of the following:
/home/AccountName/Android/Sdk
/usr/lib/android-sdk
/Library/Android/sdk/
/Users/[USER]/Library/Android/sdk
Option 2:
Download the Android Studio.
Extract downloaded .zip file.
The extracted folder name will read somewhat like android-studio
To keep navigation easy, move this folder to Home directory.
After moving, copy the moved folder by right clicking it. This action will place folder's location to clipboard.
Use Ctrl Alt T to open a terminal
Go to this folder's directory using cd /home/(USER NAME)/android-studio/bin/
Type this command to make studio.sh executable: chmod +x studio.sh
Type ./studio.sh
A pop up will be shown asking for installation settings. In my particular case, it is a fresh install so I'll go with selecting I do not have a previous version of Studio or I do not want to import my settings.
If you choose to import settings anyway, you may need to close any old project which is opened in order to get a working Android SDK.
From now onwards, setup wizard will guide you.
Android Studio can work with both Open JDK and Oracle's JDK (recommended). Incase, Open JDK is installed the wizard will recommend installing Oracle Java JDK because some UI and performance issues are reported while using OpenJDK.
The downside with Oracle's JDK is that it won't update with the rest of your system like OpenJDK will.
The wizard may also prompt about the input problems with IDEA .
Select install type
Verify installation settings
An emulator can also be configured as needed.
The wizard will start downloading the necessary SDK tools
The wizard may also show an error about Linux 32 Bit Libraries, which can be solved by using the below command:
sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 lib32z1
After this, all the required components will be downloaded and installed automatically.
After everything is upto the mark, just click finish
To make a Desktop icon, go to 'Configure' and then click 'Create Desktop Entry'
source

To install it on a Debian based system simply do
# Install latest JDK
sudo apt install default-jdk
# get latest sdk tools - link will change. go to https://developer.android.com/studio/#downloads and look for "Command line tools only" download from webpage as you will need to accept terms. Then extract.
mkdir cmdline-tools
mv <folder-you-extracted> android-sdk/cmdline-tools
# So after this step is done you will have ~/cmdline-tools/tools with bin/ and lib/ in it.
Then add the Android SDK to your PATH, open ~/.bashrc in editor and add the following lines into the file
# Export the Android SDK path
export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/cmdline-tools
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools
Run
source ~/.bashrc
Show all available sdk packages
sdkmanager --list
Identify latest android platform (here it's 33) and run
sdkmanager "platform-tools" "platforms;android-33"
Now you have adb, fastboot and the latest sdk tools installed

Android SDK Manager
sudo snap install androidsdk
Usage
You can use the sdkmanager to perform the following tasks.
List installed and available packages
androidsdk --list [options]
Install packages
androidsdk packages [options]
The packages argument is an SDK-style path as shown with the --list command, wrapped in quotes (for example, "build-tools;29.0.0" or "platforms;android-28"). You can pass multiple package paths, separated with a space, but they must each be wrapped in their own set of quotes.
For example, here's how to install the latest platform tools (which includes adb and fastboot) and the SDK tools for API level 28:
androidsdk "platform-tools" "platforms;android-28"
Alternatively, you can pass a text file that specifies all packages:
androidsdk --package_file=package_file [options]
The package_file argument is the location of a text file in which each line is an SDK-style path of a package to install (without quotes).
To uninstall, simply add the --uninstall flag:
androidsdk --uninstall packages [options]
androidsdk --uninstall --package_file=package_file [options]
Update all installed packages
androidsdk --update [options]
Note
androidsdk it is snap wraper of sdkmanager
all options of sdkmanager work with androidsdk
Location of installed android sdk files : /home/user/AndroidSDK
See all sdkmanager options in google documentation

UPDATE: This method is no longer recommended and installation is as easy as downloading it from the official website, then running the downloaded binary.
ORIGINAL ANSWER:
There is no need to download any binaries or files or follow difficult installation instructions.
All you really needed to do is:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install android-sdk
Update: Ubuntu 18.04 only

I can tell you the steps for installing purely via command line from scratch.
I tested it on Ubuntu on 22 Feb 2021.
create sdk folder
export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=/usr/lib/android-sdk
sudo mkdir -p $ANDROID_SDK_ROOT
install openjdk
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk
download android sdk
Go to https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html
Then down to Command line tools only
Click on Linux link, accept the agreement and instead of downloading right click and copy link address
cd $ANDROID_SDK_ROOT
sudo wget https://dl.google.com/android/repository/commandlinetools-linux-6858069_latest.zip
sudo unzip commandlinetools-linux-6858069_latest.zip
move folders
Rename the unpacked directory from cmdline-tools to tools,
and place it under $ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/cmdline-tools,
so now it should look like: $ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/cmdline-tools/tools.
And inside it, you should have: NOTICE.txt bin lib source.properties.
set path
PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/cmdline-tools/latest/bin:$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/cmdline-tools/tools/bin
This had no effect for me, hence the next step
browse to sdkmanager
cd $ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/cmdline-tools/tools/bin
accept licenses
yes | sudo sdkmanager --licenses
create build
Finally, run this inside your project
chmod 777 gradlew
sudo ./gradlew assembleDebug
This creates an APK named -debug.apk at //build/outputs/apk/debug
The file is already signed with the debug key and aligned with zipalign,
so you can immediately install it on a device.
REFERENCES
https://gist.github.com/guipmourao/3e7edc951b043f6de30ca15a5cc2be40
Android Command line tools sdkmanager always shows: Warning: Could not create settings
"Failed to install the following Android SDK packages as some licences have not been accepted" error
https://developer.android.com/studio/build/building-cmdline#sign_cmdline

If you are on Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty), and you literally just need the SDK (no Android Studio), you can install it like on Debian:
sudo apt install android-sdk android-sdk-platform-23
export ANDROID_HOME=/usr/lib/android-sdk
In build.gradle, change compileSdkVersion to 23 and buildToolsVersion to 24.0.0
run gradle build

install the android SDK for me was not the problem, having the right JRE and JDK was the problem.
To solve this install the JVM 8 (the last fully compatible, for now):
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre
Next use update-alternative to switch to the jre-8 version:
sudo update-alternatives --config java
You can revert JVM version when you want with the same update-alternatives command
Note that you problably have to do the same after this with javac also (now you have only java command at version 8)
first do:
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk
next:
sudo update-alternatives --config javac
After this you can install android SDK that require this specific Java version

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer oracle-java7-set-default
wget https://dl.google.com/dl/android/studio/ide-zips/2.2.0.12/android-studio-ide-145.3276617-linux.zip
unzip android-studio-ide-145.3276617-linux.zip
cd android-studio/bin
./studio.sh

Install Android Studio with
sudo snap install android-studio --classic
when you open it for the first time it will install the SDK for you (with options) .

Can i build Linphone in Android Studio on Mac?

I think we can build it. But I am getting error to build it on Android Studio. First I download the Android Studio and NDK. Then add the PATH of Android Studio and NDK to the PATH Variable. When I run
./check_tools.sh
I get the output
Could not find automake. Please install it.
Could not find autoconf. Please install it.
Could not find pkg-config. Please install it.
Could not find ant. Please install it.
Could not find yasm. Please install it.
Could not find wget. Please install it.
Could not find libtoolize. Please install libtool.
Invalid version of nasm: your version does not support elf32 output format. If you have installed nasm, please check that your PATH env variable is set correctly.
Failed to detect required tools, aborting.
But i doubt whether i need these tool on Android Studio or not. When I run the project i get the error
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Couldn't load linphone-armeabi-v7a: findLibrary returned null.
Can anybody tell me the solution for that.

Yes you can do this
follow the step by step guide at this blog
How to build culinphone on Android Studio using Mac OS X?
http://culinphone.wordpress.com
Here is a step to step guide.
Setup Linphone Sdk on Mac OS X
How to build Linphone in Android Studio on Mac?
Step by step guide :-
Required Knowledge :-
Android Tools
Android Studio
A little bit about mac-terminal(shell)
S/W Requirements:-
Mac OS-X with these tools (You definetely need these tools to build linphone) :-
coreutils, automake, autoconf, libtool, intltool, wget, pkgconfig ,cmake,
gmake, yasm, grep, doxygen, ImageMagick, optipng, antlr3
STEP 1:-
Concerning these useful tools you can install the tools with this command
$sudo port install coreutils automake autoconf libtool intltool wget pkgconfig cmake gmake yasm grep doxygen ImageMagick optipng antlr3
STEP 2:-
Check out these Instructions how to upgrade nasm
STEP 3:-
Then install ant by typing
brew update #update if already installed
brew install ant
If you haven’t installed brew just type command give below
its a medium size download which takes 5 mins to download
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Just follow the process which involves installing various components. If you already have brew installed, make sure it’s up to date by executing:
brew update
Once installed you can simply type:
brew install ant
STEP 4:-
Now its time to install libtool. To install libtool run the command given below
curl -OL http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.tar.gz
tar -xzf libtool-2.4.2.tar.gz
cd libtool-2.4.2
./configure && make && sudo make install
STEP 5:-
if you have not installed these programmes download and install
Download Android Studio & SDK
Download Android NDK
STEP 6:-
Download git repository of LInphone Android by running command
$ sudo git clone git://git.linphone.org/linphone-android.git –recursive
Now everything is configured perfectly
STEP 7:-
Open terminal and cd into linphone-android
Now when you get into the directory on terminal then check your PATH of SDK & NDK installed on your Mac run
$ echo $PATH
if you see the path with SDK and NDK location then it’s ok to proceed skip the below part and if not then you need to setup the PATH before you execute the make and make install script in
To setup path use:-
$export PATH=/Users/<yourusername>/android-sdks/platform-tools/:/Users//android-sdks/tools/:/Users//Documents/ndk/:/nobackup/local/prog/nasm/bin/:$PATH
it’s like export PATH=(Path of your SDK platform tools folder):(Path of your SDK tools folder):(Path of your NDK folder):$PATH
This will set up the path and to confirm again run
$ echo $PATH
Now if the Path is already setup you can simply run
$ make
Now connect your Device to you Mac and see if eclipse has detected it. After the device is connected run:
$ make install
Now if everythink is OK:-
After you have made your build then now you can import it into your Android Studio.
Open Android Studio
Import Project (Eclipse,ADT,Gradle,etc.) > select linphone-android > OK

I am able to build the limphone on mac by follow the steps describe here :-
Linphone for android is not working/missing libraries

You definetely need these tools to build linphone.
Concerning nasm I had the same problem. You can use this site that instructs you how to upgrade to a newer nasm:
Instructions how to upgrade nasm
Concerning other useful tools you can install the tools below with this command:
$sudo port install coreutils automake autoconf libtool intltool wget pkgconfig cmake gmake yasm grep doxygen ImageMagick optipng antlr3
All these are found in the linphone build instructions README.md file.

How to setup Appium in Ubuntu for android

I am new in appium(automation testing technology).
I'm using a PC running Ubuntu Linux.
I have searched about this topic but I have not got any useful tutorial. Can anyone point me to the right documentation?

Do not install nodejs through apt-get, which will need sudo rights and appium will not work if node is installed as sudo user. If you have already installed remove it using
sudo apt-get remove nodejs
sudo apt-get remove npm
Download latest nodejs linux binaries form http://nodejs.org/download/
Extract into a folder that doesn't need sudo rights to access, for example your home folder.
tar -xvf <downloaded_binary_tar.gz>
Add the following line to your ~/.bashrc file.
export PATH=$PATH:<full_path_of_the_extracted_node_folder>/bin
Open a now terminal and do
npm install -g appium
appium

I'm sure you will find plenty of tutorials on this (and this will only work for android since you would need an OSX box to do iOS) but here is what we did:
Install nodejs/npm:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y python-software-properties python g++ make
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs
UPDATE: use homebrew to install node
Install grunt-cli:
npm install -g grunt-cli
If you run into an issue about it not being able to install in a directory, do this.
Install Appium:
npm install -g appium
Set up a symlink in your .bashrc file for Appium:
ln -s /path/to/appium.js /usr/bin/appium
Test to make sure it can run by running appium in your terminal. The output should be something like:
info: Welcome to Appium v0.16.0 (REV 292d265edd9c7aaf96f165009285c814b218363d)
info: Appium REST http interface listener started on 0.0.0.0:4723
info - socket.io started
Install Java JRE 6
sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre
Install Android SDK:
Download the SDK and extract it to your home folder.
Launch the Android SDK Manager:
~/path/to/android-sdk/tools/android
Install the packages that you'll need in the new window:
Android 4.X
Android Support Library
Android SUpport Repository
Google Play services
Everything under Tools
Everything under Extras
You can also create a symlink for the Android SDK Manager by doing:
ln -s /path/to/android-sdk/tools/android /usr/bin/android

Steps to get appium working on ubuntu pc :
Install ruby: Paste the below command at terminal and hit enter
sudo apt-get install build-essential curl git m4 ruby texinfo libbz2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat-dev libncurses-dev zlib1g-dev
Install linux brew:Paste the below command at terminal and hit enter
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew/go/install)"
set path for brew
Type: gedit .bashrc at terminal and copy paste following into the .bashrc file
export PATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"
export MANPATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/share/man:$MANPATH"
export INFOPATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/share/info:$INFOPATH"
Install node:Paste the below commands one by one at terminal and hit enter
brew update
brew install node
brew link node
Install appium
npm install -g appium
npm install wd
To start appium: Paste the below command at terminal and hit enter
appium

Just to save somebodies time: on my Ubuntu 14.04 I was trying to install npm both via sudo apt-get and using binaries. Both approaches were wrong but everything is Ok after I istalled npm via HomeBrew

Steps to install Appium on Linux.
Basics setup from the link.
Now install linuxbrew taking help from the link.
Now use the following commands from the terminal
Make sure to start a new terminal:
brew update
brew install node
brew link node
npm install -g appium#version
Hope this helps those who face the issue installing with "sudo".

Many people face issue while installing appium on ubuntu because we install using sudo we should install appium using npm
Detailed step by step explanation to install appium on Ubuntu using npm
CLICK HERE
To install node.js and appium without sudo we use linuxbrew.
To install linuxbrew these are the dependencies
Ruby 1.8.6 or newer
GCC 4.2 or newer
Git 1.7.12.4 or newer
Linux 2.6.16 or newer
64-bit x86 or 32-bit ARM platform
Install Ruby using below command
sudo apt-get install build-essential curl git m4 python-setuptools ruby texinfo libbz2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat-dev libncurses-dev zlib1g-dev
Install Linux Brew using below command
ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew/go/install)"
Set Path for brew
first type sudo gedit.bashrc in terminal and copy the below in the .bashrc file.export
PATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"exportMANPATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/share/man:$MANPATH"export INFOPATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/share/info:$INFOPATH"
7 .Install Node:Open new terminal and copy the command and press enter
brew update
brew install node
brew link node
8.Finally Install Appium using below command
npm install -g appium
9.Let's Check if the installation is successfull. Open the terminal and type "appium" and hit enter.You should see something like this in the terminal
info: Welcome to Appium v1.4.12(REV 8db2d00b9afcf2c50a09a80a2e8d56b05a902caf)
info: Appium REST http interface listener started on 0.0.0.0:4723
info: Console LogLevel: debug

It is very simple and easy, Please check the below steps!.
1) Install latest Node.js
Terminal commands:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
More information please check official website.
2) Install latest Appium
Terminal commands :
npm install -g appium
or
sudo npm install -g appium
More information please check official documentation.

I've installed the NVM on CentOS 7 and it works perfectly.
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.13.1/install.sh | bash
I will strongly recommend going for that with which you will have control of NodeJS versions.
Btw, Linuxbrew doesn't work for me.

I can tell about the 14.04 version
Download the file from https://nodejs.org/en/
2.Now for extracting the file path press
Ctrl+l , it will give the exact path , copy it
3.open bash.src file and it has to be open with gedit, this file is hidden
Press Ctrl+h to see the hidden files
4.now in the bash.src file,paste the below commands
export PATH=$PATH:"somepath u copied upto bin"
export NODE_PATH=$PATH:"somepath u copied upto bin node_modules'"
It will surely work

Error executing command 'ant' on Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks when building for Android with PhoneGap/Cordova

Today I tried PhoneGap/Cordova with Mac OS X Mavericks. Building for iOS went just fine, but building for Android wasn't without some guesswork.
I installed Android 4.2.2 via the Android SDK Manager (I had to use the older API v17 since it wasn't compatible with a newer one), added the PATH environment variables for the SDK's platform-tools and tools and thought I was ready to take off by running the command:
phonegap run android
Nevertheless, I got the following error:
[phonegap] detecting Android SDK environment...
[phonegap] using the local environment
[phonegap] adding the Android platform...
[error] An error occured during creation of android sub-project. ERROR : executing command 'ant', make sure you have ant installed and added to your path.

The error message proved to be true as Apache Ant isn't in the path of Mac OS X Mavericks anymore.
Bulletproof solution:
Download and install Homebrew by executing following command in terminal:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Install Apache Ant via Homebrew by executing
brew install ant
Run the PhoneGap build again and it should successfully compile and install your Android app.

You can install ANT through macports or homebrew.
But if you want to do without 3rd party package managers, the problem can simply be fixed by downloading the binary release from the apache ANT web site and adding the binary to your system PATH.
For example, on Mountain Lion, in ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc my path was setup like this:
export ANT_HOME="/usr/share/ant"
export PATH=$PATH:$ANT_HOME/bin
So after uncompressing apache-ant-1.9.2-bin.tar.bz2 I moved the resulting directory to /usr/share/ and renamed it ant.
Simple as that, the issue is fixed.
Note Don't forget to sudo chown -R root:wheel /usr/share/ant

As an alternative to homebrew, you could download and install macports. Once you have macports, you can use:
sudo port install apache-ant

it don't needed port and brew!
because you have android sdk package.
.1 edit your .bash_profile
export ANT_HOME="[your android_sdk_path/eclipse/plugins/org.apache.ant_1.8.3.v201301120609]"
// its only my org.apache.ant version, check your org.apache.ant version
export PATH=$PATH:$ANT_HOME/bin
.2 make ant command that can executed
chmod 770 [your ANT_HOME/bin/ant]
.3 test if you see below message. that's success!
command line execute: ant
Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!
Build failed

I encountered the same issue when trying to use Cordova. Turns out I already had brew, try which brew, but it was outdated. So, I had to update it first:
Update brew: brew update
Install Apache Ant: brew install ant

In my case, I have macport installed already. I simply updated my macport:
sudo port selfupdate
sudo port upgrade outdated
Then install apache-ant:
sudo port install apache-ant
Finally, I add ant to my alias list in my .bash_profile:
alias ant='/opt/local/bin/ant'
Then you are all set.

For OSX your path needs to include /Users/yourusername
their example: /Development/adt-bundle/sdk/platform-tools
needs to be: /Users/yourusername/Development/adt-bundle/sdk/platform-tools