how to open and run package in android studio?

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I'm hoping to add on some additional functionality to the native android side of this package but am unclear how to import it and run in android studio? Is it possible to run the android piece standalone without react-native?... and if so any guidance?

I tried opening the android folder in android-studio and it gave me build issues related to compile 'com.facebook.react:react-native:+'. I can work around that by adding react-native as a package.json dependency at the root of the project directory and doing an npm install but even when it succussfully builds it does not appear to be an android-studio project that I can run in emulation