Update to RN 0.81 and prebuilt ios

Author: janicduplessis

example/.gitignore

@@ -16,3 +16,4 @@ server-dist/*
 local.properties
 msbuild.binlog
 node_modules/
+Gemfile.lock

example/Gemfile

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+source 'https://rubygems.org'
+
+# You may use http://rbenv.org/ or https://rvm.io/ to install and use this version
+ruby ">= 2.6.10"
+
+# Exclude problematic versions of cocoapods and activesupport that causes build failures.
+gem 'cocoapods', '>= 1.13', '!= 1.15.0', '!= 1.15.1'
+gem 'activesupport', '>= 6.1.7.5', '!= 7.1.0'
+gem 'xcodeproj', '< 1.26.0'
+gem 'concurrent-ruby', '< 1.3.4'
+
+# Ruby 3.4.0 has removed some libraries from the standard library.
+gem 'bigdecimal'
+gem 'logger'
+gem 'benchmark'
+gem 'mutex_m'

example/android/build.gradle

@@ -24,20 +24,20 @@ buildscript {
 
 allprojects {
     repositories {
-        maven {
-            // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
-            url({
-                def searchDir = rootDir.toPath()
-                do {
-                    def p = searchDir.resolve("node_modules/react-native/android")
-                    if (p.toFile().exists()) {
-                        return p.toRealPath().toString()
+        {
+            def searchDir = rootDir.toPath()
+            do {
+                def p = searchDir.resolve("node_modules/react-native/android")
+                if (p.toFile().exists()) {
+                    maven {
+                        url = p.toRealPath().toString()
                     }
-                } while (searchDir = searchDir.getParent())
-                throw new GradleException("Could not find `react-native`");
-            }())
-        }
-        maven { url "file:/$rootDir/privateMavenRepository" }
+                    break
+                }
+            } while (searchDir = searchDir.getParent())
+            // As of 0.80, React Native is no longer installed from npm
+        }()
+        maven { url uri("$rootDir/privateMavenRepository") }
         mavenCentral()
         google()
     }

example/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.11.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.14.3-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME

example/index.js

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
-import { AppRegistry } from 'react-native';
+import { AppRegistry, LogBox } from 'react-native';
 import App from './src/App';
 import { name as appName } from './app.json';
 
+LogBox.ignoreAllLogs();
+
 AppRegistry.registerComponent(appName, () => App);

example/ios/Podfile

@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ require "#{ws_dir}/node_modules/react-native-test-app/test_app.rb"
 
 workspace 'example.xcworkspace'
 
+# Use prebuilt RN.
+ENV['RCT_USE_RN_DEP'] = '1'
+ENV['RCT_USE_PREBUILT_RNCORE'] = '1'
+
 new_arch_enabled = ENV['NEW_ARCH_ENABLED'].nil? ? true : ENV['NEW_ARCH_ENABLED'] == 'true'
 
 options = {