As I can see here you need OS X to build apps with React Native. That is probably because they used it at first to create only iOS apps. Now it's possible to create Android apps with React Native but they still require OS X as development platform which doesn't make sense to me. Is there any way to create Android apps using React Native on Ubuntu OS or any other Linux?
Update 2: I've been developing React native apps on Ubuntu for some time now, without any issues.
Update 1: It's almost possible on linux and windows now. Check this doc page: link
Old answer:
It's already almost working, from the issue shared in kzzzf's answer:
Everything works on Linux except:
react-native run-android can't open a new shell window, you need to
use react-native start. Will be fixed in next release. Debugging in
Chrome currently relies on an AppleScript to launch Chrome. There's a
PR to replace that.
Building on linux and windows is not officially supported although there are people in the community already sending pull requests that will allow to do so (main obstacle is the fact of using apple-script and calling to shell scripts from node - from react-packager and from react-cli).
Main task for tracking those efforts is here: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/2693
While it's not officially supported on Linux yet, and there are certainly some hoops to jump through, I have created a docker container that allows me to build and run android apps from Ubuntu.
The dockerfile is still a work in progress but it's available on github: https://github.com/gilesp/docker/tree/master/react_native
There's a couple of shell scripts to make local development easier - I mainly use the react-bash script to give me a shell prompt in the container for running react-native run-android etc.
It works well enough that I can have a phone connected via USB on my host machine, the react native stuff running in the container and have my edits to the code (I mainly edit using emacs on the host) appear immediately on the device.
I'm currently working on CI builds for android as there are some more hoops to jump through to create the bundled version of the javascript for deployment.
It should be possible by now. For an up to date guide on "can i build for platform X on system Y", see:
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started.html
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I have recently been playing around with code-server, which is a Visual Studio Code IDE that can be ran on the remote machine and accessed through the browser. For that I made a google vm instance of Ubuntu LTS 16.04, and I was successfull to launch it and install the Flutter and Dart sdks. Because of the flutter_web and flutter itself still being unable to unify in one codebase, I ran into a lot of incompatibilities which made it impossible to debug my application as a web-site.
Now I want to launch the android emulator instead, because I would be able to test and debug the apps, but I didn't find any source of information on how to install it and display it remotely, for example, in local browser.
Is it practically possible? And if it is, please tell me how. Because me being able to develop flutter apps on iPad would be really cool.
Actually this out of our scope as is not related to the Google Compute Engine product, anyway I would give my best effort to help you:
Google Marketplace has an awesome product called Genymotion [1] which is an Android Emulator. I tried and it's one click deploy, very useful.
[1] https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/partners/genymotion-public-project
I have an Android app built from scratch using React Native. Can I migrate the same app to iOS? If so, how tough will it be?
The Android app is already built and working fine.
If the app is done in React Native, you could build it using Xcode, of course you need a Mac, https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started#xcode.
You can also try from command line
react-native run-ios
Remember that you still need to install Xcode and the tools needed to build on the simulator or your device.
Also remember that you might have to do some changes in your code, not always the code for android works in iOS, moreover if you are using native modules done by you or from a library.
A project written in react-native should, by default, work on iOS.
Normally tho, every package you have used, some styles still differs from each other from platform, some things are avaiable to do on Android and not on iOS, some things are avaiable on iOS and not on Android.
Some packages needs linking. Some needs additional steps to run on iOS changing some datas/informations using xcode. (like deep linking).
On react-native 0.60 you need to install the pods manually as it's not done by the autolinking, there are a lot things to check and it may not be automatic for the majority of the cases
Is there any way to develop a React Native app for Android without installing Android Studio ?
On Ubuntu 18.04 the apt command proposes a lot of android packages: android-sdk, android-sdk-platform-tools etc...
What do I need exactly to get React Native working properly ?
Please don't use expo or another SDKs of react native. React Native CLI is recommended everywhere because its performance is not comparable to expo and it is much more lightweight! Android Studio is just an IDE! If you setup your android development environment correctly there is no need to install Android Studio IDE (This is for experts!) but it is recommended to install for amateur users.
If you don't want to use the Android studio, you can take advantage of the Expo. Expo is the best way to assist React-native. You can run the app without the Android studio, and when you refresh, you can see the modified code right away.
Look at this official document and follow it slowly.
you don't need Android Studio at all, if you are using react native cli you can install it on your phone and run it there.
An attempt of solution to use react native without android studio and without expo is to build directly in your device.
you must install adb first by following this link install-adb-fastboot-on-ubuntu 18.04
and then you should follow this link react-native running-on-device
It will help you.
I'm using usb cable to install debug apk in my phone (react-native run-android). I put my phone in the same network (WIFI) with my machine (server) and configure the server address and port to debug remotely in the phone. After that i remove the usb cable.
In short everything is explained on the link above
I’m a mobile developer and recently adept at using containers with docker. I’m developing a container architecture for my graduate project. One of the modules of this architecture would need to be run on an android device. But I could not find information on how to run a container on an android device. It could be something simple like an alpine image with python.
Can anyone tell me if there is a possibility to run a container on an android device with docker, or even kubernetes?
In 2021, the answer is definitely yes.
Here is a tutorial on that topic, which shows you how to run docker directly on Android, without VMs nor chroot. Note that you do need to root your phone and build a custom kernel though.
If you only want a quick look of docker running on android without getting your hands dirty, check out this comment on GitHub.
It is possible to use it for running docker on an android device using an application like termux or userland to install a qemu package.
The best way is to use alpine linux terminal, an android app available on github.
This alpine term app has a QEMU to run like alpine ISO. All things are automated
and this works with x86_64 kernel on any android.
Some android phones have a KVM kernel so this device can run faster alpine term
Also my friends made a video on a YouTube channel to run docker on any android phone without root.
I must note that I am not an expert in Android development. But I researched on this topic, and #Emile's answer is the easiest and closest you can get - as it seems.
You can actually run Fedora (and not only) image on top of the Termux and then launch Python inside. This is obviously not a docker, but might be helpful.You can find more info here.
In addition, I've found this topic on Quora which is a similar question:
Think about it: Docker abstracts the OS and that is all. The Android
OS is quite a different kernel than linux distributions, even though
it is linux. It might be tricky to get applications meant for a linux
distribution to run on Android/Docker.
One of the main reasons to use docker is that it can provide
self-contained packages of applications which do not affect the rest
of the system. The Android applications, packaged as .apk files are
just that.
Other than that I was able to find this topic on StackOverflow which does not really resolve the issue. As the issue might be related to AUFS and some Kernel features needed by LXT which are not present in Android - now some of them is from what I remember.
Also there is a claim that it is possible on docker forum and weibo (use translation to English), but there is only a screenshot provided by user and no details on how to do it, besides "it took a lot of effort" statement. So it would seam that this is still a not well known part, or maybe someone will be able to actually provide more complementary information - maybe try on Docker forum or GitHub.
We open the Android container, which can run the docker container on the Android operating system. Not only can run Docker containers, but also other containers, such as podman. In addition, we have also enabled the container to support checkpoint and restore functions, and support the migration of containers across architectures and operating systems. See https://github.com/CGCL-codes/Android-Container for details.
Some people think it's impossible but it isn't you can run a full ubuntu on your phone by this android app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux
You can even install gui envrioment and connect over vnc everything is supported in this so also docker or website hosting and so on
(Make sure you follow al install steps in the app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=studio.com.techriz.andronix to install linuxes like arch or ubuntu fedora or more you have to install these it doesn't work by just opening termux)
YOU DON'T HAVE TO ROOT TO USE THIS METHOD
I am looking for a utility that would quickly bundle up a phonegap app for android from an html directory. Perhaps something that would read some config.json file in that directory to automatically take care of all the configurations.
Basically I am looking to avoid doing all the setup of eclipse just to wrap my html5 app which already works fine on android through the browser.
Anyone have any good tricks or tools that can shortcut the whole process to something close to what I am dreaming about? I would love something where in 10 minutes I can have everything ready to deploy to the marketplace.
One option is AppLaud Cloud. Note, that it is still in alpha.
With AppLaud Cloud, you could create a Base App and then replace the contents of the assets/www directory with your html5 app.
You can emulate the app with the built-in Emulator, debug the app on device with Weinre, and build for deployment to the market.
Caveat: I'm the creator of AppLaudCloud.
Dreamweaver 5.5 has a function like the one you are looking for. I played with it briefly and is ok. More info here: http://blogs.nitobi.com/andre/index.php/2011/04/12/adobe-dreamweaver-5-5-supports-phonegap/
The plus: works with ios also(if you're on mac)
The minus: quite expensive stuff...
I would try using the new (undocumented) command line tools in the PhoneGap Android source. There is a command for creating a new app (https://github.com/callback/callback-android/tree/master/bin) and in the new app folder there is a command for debugging the app (on emulator or device).
You could also check out https://github.com/brianleroux/cordova which is a prototype for the command line tools that are now in the platform specific PhoneGap repos on github.
Going forward there will be more work done on Cordova but probably as an official PhoneGap repo / binary distribution.