Prerequisites

We can setup this later, but just put it here before I forgot.

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export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Android/Sdk
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export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/emulator
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export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools
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echo "export ANDROID_HOME=\$HOME/Android/Sdk" >> ~/.bashrc
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echo "export PATH=\$PATH:\$ANDROID_HOME/emulator" >> ~/.bashrc
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echo "export PATH=\$PATH:\$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools" >> ~/.bashrc

Java SDK

Current Android uses JDK 17 although React Native documentation said JDK 11. This is because the JDK related to supported JDK version by Gradle. Well, Gradle 8.5 supports JDK 21 and Android Studio uses jbr-21 (Jetbrains’ JDK). Let me download and install it.

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sudo dnf install java-21-openjdk-devel

Install Android Commandline Tools

Download it:

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export DOWNLOAD_DIR=${PWD}
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wget https://dl.google.com/android/repository/commandlinetools-linux-13114758_latest.zip

Setup the place

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mkdir $ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools
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cd $ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools
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unzip ${DOWNLOAD_DIR}$/commandlinetools-linux-13114758_latest.zip && mv cmdline-tools latest

Setup PATH for convenient:

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export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/latest/bin
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echo "export PATH=\$PATH:\$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/latest/bin" >> ~/.bashrc

With this, you are now can setup Android.

Install Android SDK

Let’s install Android SDK latest version. See with:

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sdkmanager --list

Copy the name you want to install later with single quote.

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sdkmanager --install 'platforms;android-36'

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sdkmanager --install 'build-tools;36.0.0'

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sdkmanager --install 'emulator'

Run an emulator

I’m targeting Google Pixel 2 with Android Q/10 (API 29). Let’s

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sdkmanager --list | grep android-29

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sdkmanager --install 'system-images;android-29;google_apis_playstore;x86_64'

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avdmanager --verbose create avd --force --name "test_phone" --package "system-images;android-29;google_apis_playstore;x86_64" --tag "google_apis_playstore" --abi "x86_64" --device "pixel_2"

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emulator -avd test_phone &

Test Drive create A Project

Create the default project

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bun x @react-native-community/cli@latest init AwesomeProject && cd AwesomeProject

On one terminal:

Run it:

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bun start

On other terminal:

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bun android

I tempted to setup Nativewind. Later.

Reference:

• Setting React Native in Fedora
• Set Up Your Environment
• Java versions in Android builds
• JetBrains Runtime - Release page
• Old Java LTS versions unavailable on F42
• How to create Android Virtual Device with command line and avdmanager?