Merge pull request #1303 from lightninglabs/dev/react-native-v8

Dev/react native v8

Author: tanx

mobile/android/app/build.gradle

@@ -137,6 +137,10 @@ android {
         sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
         targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
     }
+    packagingOptions {
+        // Make sure libjsc.so does not packed in APK
+        exclude "**/libjsc.so"
+    }
 }
 
 dependencies {
@@ -150,6 +154,8 @@ dependencies {
     implementation fileTree(dir: "libs", include: ["*.jar"])
     implementation "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:${rootProject.ext.supportLibVersion}"
     implementation "com.facebook.react:react-native:+"  // From node_modules
+    // Add v8-android - prebuilt libv8.so into APK
+    implementation 'org.chromium:v8-android:+'
     addUnimodulesDependencies()
 
     implementation project(":Lndmobile")

mobile/android/build.gradle

@@ -26,8 +26,12 @@ allprojects {
         google()
         jcenter()
         maven {
-            // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
-            url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android"
+            // Replace AAR from original RN with AAR from react-native-v8
+            url("$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native-v8/dist")
+        }
+        maven {
+            // prebuilt libv8.so
+            url("$rootDir/../node_modules/v8-android/dist")
         }
     }
 }

mobile/package-lock.json

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
     "react-native-share": "^1.2.1",
     "react-native-svg": "^9.6.2",
     "react-native-unimodules": "^0.5.4",
+    "react-native-v8": "^0.59.10-patch.1",
     "react-navigation": "^3.11.1"
   },
   "devDependencies": {