This basically reverts
e61ccc956f
since we are no longer interested in using Detox.
In addition, the WebRTC initialization code was only placed in the RAN
instance manager holder's App initialization path, which is now gone, so
add it to the Activity initialization path.
Few (but some) RN modules rely on the main Application implementing
ReactApplication.
For Detox to actually work on Android we need the app to be a greenfield
app. Specifically, the main Application must implement ReactApplication.
In order to satisfy this requirement we are introducing a helper
ReactNativeHost implementation which encapsulates our RN integration,
which is what the ReactApplication needs to expose.
While we don't really need this ourselves (except if we end up adopting
Detox) we have known people who fork our app and add dependencies that have
this requirement to it, so this change will help them too.
Android for Enterprise provides special feature for applications to obtain configuration through RestrictionManager remotely by some MDM solution.
Jitsi Meet can be remotely installed and provisioned with a proper URL (making URL not editable by the user) inside the Work Profile or Fully managed device.
This is done at the app level, not the SDK.
Currently 2 Firebase services are used:
- Crashlytics
- Dynamic Links
They are enabled in tandem, if the appropriate Google services file
(GoogleService-Info.plist on iOS or google-services.json on Android) is found.
Each service needs to be individually enabled in the Firebase console.
Note that Android 9 Pie (API 28) disallows HTTP requests by default, so an
exception was needed in the app in order for the Metro bundler to work in debug
mode.
This only works automatically on Android >= 8. On other platforms / versions, it
relies on the SDK user on implementing a "reduced UI" mode and reacting to the
"request PIP" delegate method.
Dames en heren, welcome to Jitsi Meet SDK for Android, the Jitsi Meet library
for Android.
The Jitsi Meet SDK encapsulates React Native and all the dependencies Jitsi
Meet has so other aopplications can integrate it easily.
Unlike iOS, creating "fat" libraries is not allways (if at all) possible on
Android, however, effort was put into making the integration as easy as
possible.
While React Native can be embedded in native applications, I don't think it was
designed to be embedded as part of an Android library, hidden away from the
application using it. This surfaced as a number of issues which had to be
addressed specifically due to our use-case:
- Activity lifecycle methods must be linked with the React Native engine, so the
library provides wrapper methods.
- Custom fonts have to be manually added as assets, since the provided gradle
script doesn't work properly in a library target.
- The RN packager has to be manually triggered since the gradle script will no
longer do it for us.
At this stage, the Jitsi Meet application is just a small single activity
application which uses the Jitsi Meet SDK to create a single activity which
represents the entire application. Events and external conference handling are
forthcoming.
PS: Yours truly would like to add that it was a lot more fun to work on the iOS
side of things.
As a step toward merging jitsi-meet-react with jitsi-meet to share as
much source code as possible between mobile and Web, merge the part of
jitsi-meet-react's source tree which supports mobile inside the
jitsi-meet source tree and leave jitsi-meet-react's Web support in the
source code revision history but don't have it in master anymore because
it's different from jitsi-meet's Web support. In other words, the two
projects are mechanically merged at the file level and don't really
share source code between mobile and Web.
