React Native By Example

Modifying tasks for Android

First, we need to point to the Android SDK directory in our app's Android folder under a new local.properties file that you will create. Add the following line, where USERNAME is your machine's username:

// Tasks/android/local.properties sdk.dir = /Users/USERNAME/Library/Android/sdk 

If your Android SDK is installed in a different location from the preceding example, you will need to modify this file to point to the right place.

Then, launch an Android Virtual Device (AVD) and execute the react-native run-android command in your project's root folder. You will see the following screen, which looks just like the default template when we first built Tasks for iOS:

When working in Android, press RR to reload the ...