How to set up Android for React-Native without Android Studio but only using the SDK tools?

Question

I\'ve read pretty much read every article from google search, watched all the YouTube tutorials and checked out all the StackOverflow questions relating to this but cannot find

Answer 1

Mac Users

Assuming you already have:

1. Java JDK 8
2. nodejs and react-native cli

Now let's download only command line tools (which is bottom of ) this link

Follow these steps wisely:

1. unzip the folder in /opt/andriod directory

2. export ANDROID_HOME=/opt/android

3. echo "export ANDROID_HOME=/opt/android" >> ~/.bashrc

4. /opt/android/tools/bin/sdkmanager "platforms;android-23" "build-tools;23.0.1" "add-ons;addon-google_apis-google-23"

You are all done.Congrats! if you made it all.Now from RN proj. folder run:

react-native run-android