Summary: Rebased https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/7048 Sending a new PR to check that tests pass. After adding simulator examples, it appears that some don't show up, ex: http://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/text.html#content This is due to the fact that these examples are split into two platform-specific files. For this reason, the example code isn't being shown. The examples are also missing for TextInput. **Test plan** `cd website; npm install; npm start`    Closes https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/7406 Differential Revision: D3264567 Pulled By: mkonicek fb-gh-sync-id: cfb73eaed56a7b5c6c84ce313e113393d152e9a1 fbshipit-source-id: cfb73eaed56a7b5c6c84ce313e113393d152e9a1
UIExplorer
The UIExplorer is a sample app that showcases React Native views and modules.
Running this app
Before running the app, make sure you ran:
git clone https://github.com/facebook/react-native.git
cd react-native
npm install
Running on iOS
Mac OS and Xcode are required.
- Open
Examples/UIExplorer/UIExplorer.xcodeprojin Xcode - Hit the Run button
See Running on device if you want to use a physical device.
Running on Android
You'll need to have all the prerequisites (SDK, NDK) for Building React Native installed.
Start an Android emulator (Genymotion is recommended).
cd react-native
./gradlew :Examples:UIExplorer:android:app:installDebug
./packager/packager.sh
Note: Building for the first time can take a while.
Open the UIExplorer app in your emulator.
See Running on Device in case you want to use a physical device.
Running with Buck
Follow the same setup as running with gradle.
Install Buck from here.
Run the following commands from the react-native folder:
./gradlew :ReactAndroid:packageReactNdkLibsForBuck
buck fetch uiexplorer
buck install -r uiexplorer
./packager/packager.sh
Note: The native libs are still built using gradle. Full build with buck is coming soon(tm).
Built from source
Building the app on both iOS and Android means building the React Native framework from source. This way you're running the latest native and JS code the way you see it in your clone of the github repo.
This is different from apps created using react-native init which have a dependency on a specific version of React Native JS and native code, declared in a package.json file (and build.gradle for Android apps).