@react-native-community/cli-platform-android
Advanced tools
The @react-native-community/cli-platform-android package is a part of the React Native CLI which provides tools and utilities for managing and building React Native applications for the Android platform. It includes commands for building APKs, linking native modules, and more, tailored specifically for Android development within a React Native context.
Building APKs
This command is used to compile the React Native app and build an APK for Android. It can be used for both debugging and release builds.
npx react-native run-androidLinking native modules
Automatically links native module dependencies for Android by updating the necessary Android configuration files.
npx react-native link [package-name]Starting the Metro bundler
Starts the Metro bundler which is used to compile the JavaScript code of the React Native app.
npx react-native startThe react-native-cli package is a global command-line utility that allows you to perform various tasks such as initializing a new React Native project. It is less focused on platform-specific tasks compared to @react-native-community/cli-platform-android.
Expo CLI is a command-line app that is the main interface between a developer and Expo tools. While it provides similar functionalities for building and testing React Native apps, it is tailored for use with the Expo ecosystem, which abstracts away much of the native Android and iOS build process.
Apache Cordova is a mobile development framework that allows you to use standard web technologies to build cross-platform mobile applications. It provides a CLI for creating, building, and managing Cordova projects, which is similar in scope to @react-native-community/cli-platform-android but for the Cordova ecosystem.
FAQs
This package is part of the [React Native CLI](../../README.md). It contains commands for managing the Android part of React Native app.
The npm package @react-native-community/cli-platform-android receives a total of 2,309,421 weekly downloads. As such, @react-native-community/cli-platform-android popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @react-native-community/cli-platform-android demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 34 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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