run-android fails in custom project structure

[BharathMG-ShareChat]

My project structure looks like this,

- appName
   -- reactNative // React native package.json, node_modules,...
   -- app // Android app folder

If I run, "npx react-native run-droid" inside reactNative folder, it fails with,

error Android project not found. Are you sure this is a React Native project?

This is because, cli checks for android/gradlew inside root folder which is not there in my project structure. It is in appName/gradlew. How can I change this gradlew path in cli command?

[thymikee]

You can either create a react-native.config.js file in the project root, or run the command from the project root, or both.

[BharathMG-ShareChat]

@thymikee I thought run-android doesn't use config yet. I saw your PR #791 fixes this issue. Not sure if I'm missing something. Could you point me to a sample react-native.config.js file for custom project structure? Thanks!

[thymikee]

Having react-native.config.js in a directory is a trick to tell the CLI that "here's the root of the project, let's look up from there".

Sample config:

module.exports = {};

[grabbou]

Aside from that, yeah, this is a duplicate of #791 that @thymikee was/is working on. I am working on cleaning up the next branch and we will resume work no that.