Build Android app with Mobile source code

This article will guide you to build your Android apps with Mobile source code

Prerequisites

Mobile Devices

- Supported Android versions: 8.0+

Development Environment

We recommend to use macOS system as a development environment because:

• Able to develop cross platform Mobile application (Android, iOS).
• We got tons of utilities scripts that were mainly written in Bash Script, which tested and worked compatibly only with Unix environment.

We assume that you have experiences in React Native project and how to build React Native mobile apps. Please following this Environment Setup guide to set up the development environment for React Native (RN) project

• Node version >= 16.14
• Yarn version = 1.21.0
• React Native version: 0.70.6

Project structure

Folder packages: contains all main RN/Javascript code

Folder app: Contains entrypoint for each module section from folder `packages`. Do not change anything here, we got the script to handle these generated code

Folder android: Contains Java/Kotlin native code - mostly handle native things for Android app

Folder scripts: contains all utilities scripts

Setup

Configuration

You can update our mobile configuration and assets for Android app in:

• Copy the android/app/configuration_example.json to android/app/configuration.json and configure this file with proper values.
  • Set `enableGooglePay: true` to enable Google Pay
• Firebase config file android/app/google-services.json
  • Please refer this guide to download it from your Firebase project for Android app
• KeyStore file at android/app/<your_app>.keystore
  • Refer to this guide to create your keystore file

Mobile assets

• Update images of app icon, logo and login background in the folder android/app/src/main/res 

• Update splash screen: You can run the following command to generate splash screen after updating app icon:

--logo-width=100 --assets-path=assets

Load configuration

Whenever you change the configuration files above, you need to re-run these steps again:

Quick start

Start React Native metro package manager

Run the following commands to start Android app on Android emulator (default basing on Android Studio config)

Other Utilities scripts - CLI

Build release app.apk for Android alternatively Gradle build

Build release app.bundle for Android alternatively Gradle bundle