interfacematters/indus-mobile

A react native mobile framework that helps industry workforce access the information distributed by their management like factory timings, guidelines, real time facility data and report grievances. The framework is built to be customized and works with firebase as a backend. This is a part of the "Project Indus" ecosystem and works with web framework (indus-web).

Indus mobile app

Pre-requisites

1. Create a firebase project if not already created.
2. Add an android and iOS application to it. REF: https://firebase.google.com/docs/projects/learn-more#setting_up_a_firebase_project_and_adding_apps
3. Obtain google-services.json and GoogleService-Info.plist and place them under android/app and ios/ respectively.

Development

yarn - Install all dependencies.

To run the app on android simulator:

1. Start the simulator first.
2. Run yarn android - Creates a build and installs the app on the simulator. Also starts the metro builder.

To run the app on iOS simulator:

1, yarn ios - Creates a build and installs the app on the simulator. Also starts the metro builder.

• cd ios && pod install - Required only when a Native dependency is added and is required to be linked.

yarn start - Starts metro builder.

Creating build

Android

1. To create a debug build, run the following command:
   cd android && ./gradlew assembleDebug
   After successful completion you can find the apk in app/build/outputs/apk/debug.

2. To create a release build:
   i. Create a signing key. REF: https://developer.android.com/studio/publish/app-signing
   ii. Update build.gradle and gradle.properties to use key configurations.
   iii. Run cd android && ./gradlew assembleRelease to create apk OR cd android && ./gradlew bundleRelease to build aab. After successful completion you can find the apk in app/build/outputs/apk/release which can be directly published to play store.

iOS

1. Open xcode.
2. Select generic ios device in the build target (top left menu).
3. Make sure you have a development team added to xcode and required certificates from apple developer account.
4. Click on Product->Archive. This will bundle the application and prompt for automatic signing of the app.
5. After signing the app, upload option will be available to directly upload the apk to store.