Install Android SDK

• yay -Sy android-sdk android-sdk-cmdline-tools-latest android-sdk-platform-tools
• The SDK will be installed to /opt/android-sdk; given ANDROID_HOME='/opt/android-sdk', the following should be added to $PATH:

  "$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin/"
  "$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools/"
  "$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/latest/bin"
  "$ANDROID_HOME/emulator"

• sudo chmod -R 777 /opt/android-sdk works around permission issues due to the package being installed on /opt

Installing specific SDK versions

Example: Install the SDK for Android 8.1 (v28)

• exec yes | sdkmanager --licenses && sdkmanager "platforms;android-28" "build-tools;28.0.3" "platform-tools" "emulator" "system-images;android-28;default;x86"

To create a device with a Google Play Store, change "default" to "google_apis_playstore".

Setting up the system for emulators

• sudoedit /etc/modules-load.d/virtualbox.conf and paste in

vboxdrv
vboxnetflt
vboxnetadp
vboxpci

• sudo modprobe vboxdrv vboxnetadp vboxnetflt
  • Restart the computer for those modules to be picked up

Creating custom emulators

avdmanager --verbose create avd --force --name and28 --package "system-images;android-28;google_apis;x86" --abi "x86" --sdcard 64M

After that run the emulator with emulator @name (matches the --name used in the command above)

Run the JS server and development server separately

Related to bug https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57313661/stuck-on-info-starting-js-server

In a separate terminal

npx react-native start

In a separate terminal

npm run-script android

Useful links

• https://mariusreimer.com/2019/06/android-emulator-for-react-native-developers/
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52323403/react-native-run-android-sdk-location-no-found-but-it-exists-in-the-path