/react-native-virtual-devices-scripts

Various scripts to setup Android and iOS devices and connect all of them to Expo

Primary LanguageShell

React Native development environment setup using expo and virtual devices

prerequisites

  1. Android Studio: To be able to run android emulator devices, it needs to install Android Studio.

  2. Set environment varibales to be able to using adb and emulator commands:

    • Add the following line in the end of ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc file (more details):

      export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Library/Android/sdk 
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/emulator 
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools 
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools 
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin

Android

First of all create some Android devices by taking the following steps:

  1. open Android Studio
  2. go to tools>Device Manager
  3. press Create device button.
  4. follow the steps to create an Android device. As an example, I created the following devices:
    • Nexus_9_API_29
    • Pixel_2_API_32

How to run devices:

Run all available Android emulators, install expo apk on them and then connect them to the given expo-server-addr, e.g.: exp://localhost:19000:

cd Android
chmod +x *.sh
./run_available_emulators.sh && \
./install_expo_on_all_connected_devices.sh && \
./connect_all_devices_to_expo_server.sh <expo-server-addr>

How to shutdown devices:

To shutdown all the emulators using a single command:

cd Android
chmod +x *.sh
./shutdown_all_devices.sh

Todo:

  • Add iOS support