sbt-sri-platform should generate folders "android" and "ios"

[frgomes]

At the moment, the developer has to generate folders for androi and ios like below:

$ project=myAwesomeProject
$ react-native init $project
$ mv $project/android $project/ios .
$ rm -r -f $project

This should be automated by our SBT plugin
https://github.com/scalajs-react-interface/sbt-sri-platform

Tasks:

• investigate requirements and limitations;
• implement generation of folder for Android;
• implement generation of folder for iOS;

[frgomes]

Investigation

Android

Apparently easy: g8 should be able to generate the entire folder.

However, my tests demonstrated that the folder is generated empty. The root cause is unknown.

iOS

There are several hashes that need to be calculated, which cannot be done in g8.

Also, it seems like XCode is a moving target. Certain developers report that Apple keeps moving things around and breaking developer's code. So, from this perspective, we should not join the group of users affected by modifications in XCode.

I recommend that we keep the manual procedure in the case of iOS:

$ project=myAwesomeProject
$ react-native init $project
$ mv $project/ios .
$ rm -r -f $project

[frgomes]

@virtualirfan
I think that sbt-sri-platform should provide comands for automating this sort of mundane tasks.

• Apparently, it's just a handful of bash commands in the case of Android; and I would say that these commands should ideally be fired automagically by SBT when necessary.
• The case of IOS seems more complicated and I'd say that it only makes sense to support IOS after we gain experience with such procedure for Android.

[virtualirfan]

Not sure why things are harder for ios versus android.

$ react-native init $project creates both ios and android projects and all that has to happen is to mv and rm, right? So, why not just have the sbt plugin just run the bash commands to generate files and then mv/rm?

I'm probably missing something.

I'm not in favor of two different process for ios and android :-(

[frgomes]

@virtualirfan : You are correct. The evaluation above was done long time ago and I was considering a different strategy. If we consider that SBT can run arbitrary commands (and it can!) we can automate the entire process which is now done by hand. From this perspective... yes: both Android and IOS are conceptually the same: just a handful of commands which prepare the environment.