Welcome to the React Native app for Micro.blog. Here are some things to get started:
In the main root of this repo, run yarn or npm install. Yarn is preferred as the lock file will always be respected and the app will run the exact same package versions.
Note that you need to have a working installation of Android Studio and an enabled emulator. You can download it here.
Once your packages have been installed using the above command, you can open up the project in Android Studio. Once Gradle has finished doing what it needs to, "Run" the app in your emulator and/or real device.
Alternatively you can run yarn android which will do all the steps above without having to open Android Studio.
Before running the app on iOS, you will need to install pod files via cocoapods. Navigate to ./ios and run pod install.
Afterwards, open Xcode and run the app. You may need to sign the app. Alternatively you can run yarn ios.
You can simply start the development server (Metro), used for getting code to the development app, by running yarn start. Then simply open the app on your simulator of choice.
Note
Sometimes the Android simulator won’t connect to the Metro bundler locally. In order to get it to work, use the following command in the terminal after the sim or device is connected/running:
adb reverse tcp:8081 tcp:8081
This basically adds a reverse proxy to the bundler. You can do this multiple times with different port numbers as needed. For example you might want to use a different port number when loading a local web view, web app or service that you want to access on the device.
Sign into the app the same as you would normally. Upon receiving a sign-in email, copy the sign-in link then open the web browser in the simulator and paste the URL into the location field.
Alternatively, sign in using an app token. You can generate an app token for your account on the Micro.blog website.
Push notifications on Android require the google-services.json file to be present in the root of android/app. There might be build errors if it isn’t present. Note that this file has been excluded/ignored from source control. Check the Firebase dashboard to download it.
To test notifications, use the following "data" within the message:
{"from_user": "{"username":"manton"}", "post_id": "12499040", "to_user": "{"username":"vincent"}"}
iOS requires correct signing & capabilities in order to allow push notifications. Please check relevant Apple documentation to enable this.
To test notifications with the iOS simulator, you can use an app like Sim Genie. Here is an example payload:
{
"aps": {
"alert": {
"body": "You should work harder..."
}
},
"from_user": {
"username": "manton"
},
"post_id": "12499040",
"to_user": {
"username": "vincent"
}
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