Plain Unity Expo Integration with ejected RN

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Shaunak Das edited this page Dec 3, 2017 · 3 revisions

Ejecting from expo

Create a project CRNA command.
Eject from expo using this link

npm i -g react-native-cli
# or
yarn global add react-native-cli
npm run eject

When asked for type of eject, select the plain react native project.

You will add following to your project.

.buckconfig
.expo/
.gitattributes
android/
index.ios.js
index.js
ios/

First successful run after eject.

Import inside Android Studio the android folder. Gradle will ad some files of its own.
Run the project using react-native run-android
You will see a lot of fonts not working. Solve it using react-native link. It will add android/settings.gradle and android/src/main/java/<package-name>/MainApplication.java. These two files are important.

Importing Unity Project

Remove everything from RN project android folder(keep the 2 files mentioned above as backup). Copy Unity project contents into android folder
Check MyReactActivity to check for app name in mReactRootView.startReactApplication(mReactInstanceManager, "<app_name>", null);

Running App

Using this link
Run react-native link. Add settings.gradle and MainApplication.java at the position needed by this command