react-native-macos/android
Nicola Corti f0972cb101 RNGP - Various improvements needed for 3rd party libs (#35496)
Summary:
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/35496

This commit includes a series of fixes needed for better integration with libraries for 0.71:
- I've added an `android/README.md` file as some libraries were failing the build if the folder was missing
- RNGP now applies dep substitution on app and all the libraries project
- RNGP now adds repositories on app and all the libraries project
- I've removed the maven local repo to the `/android` folder as now is empty
- I've fixed the path for the JSC repo for Windows users
- I've added a bit of backward compat by re-adding an empty `project.react.ext` block that libraries might read from.
- I've removed `codegenDir` from the `GenerateCodegenArtifactsTask` which was unused.

Changelog:
[Internal] [Changed] - RNGP - Various improvements needed for 3rd party libs

Reviewed By: cipolleschi

Differential Revision: D41549489

fbshipit-source-id: 2252da0180ac24fd3fe5a55300527da6781f0f8c
2022-11-29 02:56:35 -08:00
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README.md RNGP - Various improvements needed for 3rd party libs (#35496) 2022-11-29 02:56:35 -08:00

README.md

The /android folder inside react-native

Starting from React Native 0.71, we're not shipping the /android folder inside the React Native NPM package anymore due to sizing constraints on NPM. The Android artifacts are distributed via Maven Central. You can read more about it in this RFC: https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/pull/508

If you're a library author and you're manipulating the React Native .aar files, to extract headers, extract .so files or do anything with it, you're probably doing something wrong. React Native 0.71 ships with all the necessary logic to let you consume it transparently by just using:

implementation("com.facebook.react:react-android")
// or to keep backward compatibility with older versions of React Native:
implementation("com.facebook.react:react-native:+")

You should consider refactoring your library code not to unzip/manipulate the React Native .aar files.

This README.md file is kept in this folder as some libraries are checking the existence of the /android folder and failing user builds if the folder is missing.