Refugee Info App

Installing

Requirements

• JDK 7
• Android SDK
• React Native
• Watchman

Installing Prerequisites

sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev automake

Installing Android SDK

• Download SDK from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html#downloads
• Unpack the archive
• Add exports to .bashrc:

export ANDROID_HOME=:/path/to/android-sdk/

export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/android-sdk/tools/

Configuring SDK

• start up Android SDK Manager

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• Android 6.0 (API 23)
• Extras
• • Android Support Repository
• • Android Support Library
• • Google Play services
• • Google Repository
• • Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator

Installing Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator (HAXM) on Ubuntu

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/03/12/how-to-start-intel-hardware-assisted-virtualization-hypervisor-on-linux-to-speed-up-intel-android-x86-emulator

Updating npm & node:

sudo npm install -g npm
sudo npm cache clean -f
sudo npm install -g n
sudo n stable

Installing React Native:

sudo npm install -g react-native-cli
touch ~/.gradle/gradle.properties && echo "org.gradle.daemon=true" >> ~/.gradle/gradle.properties

Installing Watchman:

git clone https://github.com/facebook/watchman.git
cd watchman
git checkout v4.5.0  # the latest stable release
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
echo 999999 | sudo tee -a /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches && echo 999999 | sudo tee -a /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_queued_events && echo 999999 | sudo tee -a /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances && watchman shutdown-server

Creating android virtual machine:

start AVD manager:

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• go to Device Definitions, edit desired device, set Buttons property to "Hardware"
• Create new Android Virtual Device, select previously edited device definition
• Set target to Android 6.0, CPU: Google APIs Intel Atom (x86), Skin with dynamic hardware controls

Starting up application

• Start Android Virtual Machine
• Go to project root

react-native run-android
react-native start

• Reload JS
• For faster development enable live & hot reload in the Dev Console

Tests

• Installing tests environment

npm install -g appium  # get appium
pip install Appium-Python-Client
pip install pytest

• Running tests

appium &               # start appium
py.test tests/*.py     # run all tests