react-native-restart-android

Restart the whole react native android application

Note: this project is Android only

Installation Process

* download this from npm

``



npm install react-native-restart-android --save





* Run

react-native link

 to automatically link the library.



#### manual link process



* Edit

android/settings.gradle

diff

  + include ':react-native-restart-android'

  + project(':react-native-restart-android').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-restart-android/android')





* Edit

android/app/build.gradle

diff

  dependencies {

    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])

    compile "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.0.1"

    compile "com.facebook.react:react-native:+"

  + compile project(':react-native-restart-android')

  }





* Edit

android/app/src/main/java/.../MainApplication.java

diff

  + import com.rnrestartandroid.RNRestartAndroidPackage;

diff

    @Override

    protected List getPackages() {

      return Arrays.asList(

        new MainReactPackage()

  +     , new RNRestartAndroidPackage()

      );

    }





Usage

js

import RestartAndroid from 'react-native-restart-android'

// or

import { RestartAndroid } from 'react-native-restart-android'

// or

const RestartAndroid = require('react-native-restart-android')



// methods (Android only, will throw Error on iOS)

RestartAndroid.restart()