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Project Creation - Mobile

Create a New React Native Expo Project​

  • Open VS Code in your desired parent folder of repo folder
  • Open the integrated terminal in VS Code
  • follow the steps in Create an expo project, choose with typescript, it also has the steps on how to run it, just name it the same as the repo
  • Use the integrated Git Bash terminal in VS Code for all commands (e.g., npm install)
  • run an android emulator in vscode:
    • Open the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P), search for Emulator → View Android emulators → your created emulator should appear
    • Select your configured emulator to launch it directly from VS Code
    • then in terminal when expo is started it will tell you to press a to open the app in android emulator