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react-native/Examples/UIExplorer
Andrei Coman 9f10b85e10 Fix UIExplorer for android getting in a broken state
Summary:
If you have a new example that you add to the UIExplorer, enter the example, but
then change the name of the example or remove it, the explorer enters a
completely broken state. It remembers the name of the last module entered and
keeps trying to enter it. Reloading, refreshing, nothing will work until you
completely reinstall the app.
This fixes this by not trying to render the current module if it doesn't exist.
It will simply skip it.

Reviewed By: yungsters

Differential Revision: D4475088

fbshipit-source-id: d4a530b235aa2712d663377e33fe65091163d262
2017-01-29 04:13:27 -08:00
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2017-01-11 14:43:31 -08:00

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.xcodeproj in 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).