Hey there! here we will be seeing how we can set up react native CLI for running it on our devices.
-> REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES
NODEJS
OPENJDK (JAVA)
ANDROID STUDIO
One thing to keep in mind is that we won't be using the android studio to run our app rather we'll be using our android phone.
Now, nodeJs and OpenJDK can be installed from the web itself but a more convenient way is to install chocolatey, which is a Package Manager for Windows and this will allow us to download node and OpenJDK in our PowerShell itself.
Chocolatey can be downloaded from the following link👇
Once installed, run the command prompt as administrator and run the following command.
choco install -y nodejs-lts microsoft-openjdk11
This will install nodejs and java in your computer. now we are only left with android studio, which can be downloaded and installed from this site easily(no customization needed just click on next next)
The final step is setting up environment variables. Let's take care of that
Search for "edit environment variable" in windows search and open, hit enter and it will open this window
here in user variable, click on edit and then add a new path i.e
The sdk is installed in the following location
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Android\Sdk
open PowerShell and run the following command and check if the ANDROID_HOME has been added.
Get-ChildItem -Path Env:\
Now in the same window, click on path and edit and then new. add the default path and click on ok.
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Android\Sdk\platform-tools
Hurrayy!! we are all set to run and test react native apps now.