Linking native library in react native?

Question

1)What does it mean by saying native library? What sort of library ? are ones will be used as graddle dependencies ?

2)How to link these? I was facing trouble while using link or rnpm.

Answer 1

Linking native library means that you are going to integrate already implemented module into your application or module which completes your react native's module functionality for eg: if you prepare a video player board with all the controls so in order to play the music you have to integrate react-native video (3rd party) because there is no inbuild lib. in react native. After integrating video lib you are good to go to play.

Steps to integrate lib(android):

1) Add package name to new packages() 2) Add dependencies to settings.gradle file and main application's gradle i.e app/gradle file. 3) sync the projects gradle because you made changes in the gradle and it's done.

After cloning/downloading the project:

1) Go to your project's home dir using cmd. 2) run npm install 3) Thereafter run rnpm link or react-native link 4) see ios folder in your project folder and if you find any pod file then run pod install after navigating into ios folder in cmd.

Cheers :)