Build React Native from Source

Author: cortinico

android/app/build.gradle

@@ -186,12 +186,17 @@ android {
 
         }
     }
+
+    packagingOptions {
+        pickFirst '**/libhermes.so'
+        pickFirst '**/libjsc.so'
+    }
 }
 
 dependencies {
     implementation fileTree(dir: "libs", include: ["*.jar"])
     //noinspection GradleDynamicVersion
-    implementation "com.facebook.react:react-native:+"  // From node_modules
+    implementation project(":ReactAndroid")  // From node_modules
 
     implementation "androidx.swiperefreshlayout:swiperefreshlayout:1.0.0"
 

android/build.gradle

@@ -13,9 +13,11 @@ buildscript {
         mavenCentral()
     }
     dependencies {
-        classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.2.2")
+        classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.0.4")
         // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
         // in the individual module build.gradle files
+        classpath("com.facebook.react:react-native-gradle-plugin")
+        classpath("de.undercouch:gradle-download-task:4.1.2")
     }
 }
 

android/gradle.properties

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 # Specifies the JVM arguments used for the daemon process.
 # The setting is particularly useful for tweaking memory settings.
 # Default value: -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-# org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
+org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2g -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
 
 # When configured, Gradle will run in incubating parallel mode.
 # This option should only be used with decoupled projects. More details, visit

android/settings.gradle

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
 rootProject.name = 'RNNewArchitectureApp'
 apply from: file("../node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-android/native_modules.gradle"); applyNativeModulesSettingsGradle(settings)
 include ':app'
+includeBuild('../node_modules/react-native-gradle-plugin') 
+
+include(":ReactAndroid")
+project(":ReactAndroid").projectDir = file('../node_modules/react-native/ReactAndroid')

package.json

@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "react": "17.0.2",
-    "react-native": "0.0.0-20220201-2008-79975d146"
+    "react-native": "0.0.0-20220201-2008-79975d146",
+    "react-native-gradle-plugin": "^0.0.4"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@babel/core": "^7.12.9",

yarn.lock

@@ -5329,7 +5329,7 @@ react-is@^16.13.1:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/react-is/-/react-is-16.13.1.tgz#789729a4dc36de2999dc156dd6c1d9c18cea56a4"
   integrity sha512-24e6ynE2H+OKt4kqsOvNd8kBpV65zoxbA4BVsEOB3ARVWQki/DHzaUoC5KuON/BiccDaCCTZBuOcfZs70kR8bQ==
 
-react-native-codegen@^0.0.13:
+react-native-codegen@*, react-native-codegen@^0.0.13:
   version "0.0.13"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/react-native-codegen/-/react-native-codegen-0.0.13.tgz#4cc94546fc75a5dbe9350d59c10108f2efe6bc17"
   integrity sha512-rCh1P+s0Q4N6vNgS97ckafbhJRztz22+0l0VZoyQC06F07J98kI5cUByH0ATypPRIdpkMbAZc59DoPdDFc01bg==
@@ -5339,6 +5339,13 @@ react-native-codegen@^0.0.13:
     jscodeshift "^0.13.1"
     nullthrows "^1.1.1"
 
+react-native-gradle-plugin@^0.0.4:
+  version "0.0.4"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/react-native-gradle-plugin/-/react-native-gradle-plugin-0.0.4.tgz#47adcc4f1e1f2c1558811ad78ad39546007d8667"
+  integrity sha512-D0lFhHy9uSkiPKsGEdEoFtN/jCjS70OxxzBXfq0s9J3ie8GXRBEDHsZuuX/enfRq5fvbCnhKjuYezf+DVYTNnw==
+  dependencies:
+    react-native-codegen "*"
+
 [email protected]:
   version "0.0.0-20220201-2008-79975d146"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/react-native/-/react-native-0.0.0-20220201-2008-79975d146.tgz#a9f1efa7d808e2043d8ab75c37f096d81852e273"