Things to have before installing React native (We will be using React CLI)

1. Node

2. Java Development Kit

3. Android Development Kit

Installing Node

• Go to below mentioned site and download the any version of Node

  Node Installation

•   node --version
    sudo apt install  npm
    npm --version
  

  

Installing Java Development Kit

sudo apt update
sudo apt install openjdk-17-jre-headless
java --version

• React Native currently recommends version 17 of the Java SE Development Kit (JDK)

• After running all these if you can see the version then installation is finished

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Installing Android Development Kit

• Go to below site to and click the download . Do next next then it will take some time to install

• Android Studio Download

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Points to do after successfully installing Android Studio

• Extract the File after downloading

• Navigate to the folder where the extracted folder is present

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  After that Your Android Studio GUI will be launched

• Make sure to tick the below to successfully work it without any problem

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  After clicking all these click on apply then it will get downloaded. Wait some time till it downloads

• After installing Configure the ANDROID_HOME environment variable

•   nano ~/.bashrc
  

• Add these lines at the bottom of the file:

•   export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Android/Sdk
    export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/emulator
    export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools
  

• Save and exit (Ctrl+O, then Enter, then Ctrl+X)

• Apply the changes:

•   source ~/.bashrc
  

• Run the below commands to check it variables are setup successfullt

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  Also run the below commands

•   adb --version
    emulator --version
  

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🎉 Awesome! Congratulations on setting up everything successfully! Now you’re ready to build React Native apps on your Linux machine with full Android support.