Mulitbuild for Android and Android TV

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Many times there is only one APK needed which covers both Android as well as Android TV. To achieve this, the AndroidManifest.xml needs the intent-filter with category android.intent.category.LAUNCHER as well as android.intent.category.LEANBACK_LAUNCHER.

Of course this can be achieved by modifying the appconfig's renative.json, but maybe there could be a more easy way, for eg. a boolean option in the configuration.

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@pavjacko Is this something which you think is good for renative? If yes, I think about it to implement this config option.

[pavjacko]

@maximilize so to achieve above result you should only need this

renative.json:

"android": {
    "AndroidManifest": {
        "children": [
            {
                "tag": "application",
                "android:name": ".MainApplication",
                "children": [
                    {
                        "tag": "activity",
                        "android:name": ".MainActivity",
                        "children": [{
                            "tag": "intent-filter",
                            "children": [
                                {
                                    "tag": "category",
                                    "android:name": "android.intent.category.LEANBACK_LAUNCHER"
                                }
                            ]
                        }]
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    }
}

and run app with

rnv run -p android --skipTargetCheck

to show TV targets as well

now you could make a shortcut version of it but be-aware it has implications to stuff like

• general UX
• conditional compilation options (index.android.js vs index.androidtv.js vs index.tv.js)
• different focus management options

so we could enable basic flag ie "enableAndroidTV" which injects mentioned snippet. wouldn't do more than that until we got above topics nailed down conceptually

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Actually there are quite many TV boxes out there which are not real Android TV, mostly from China. They are not supporting the LEANBACK_LAUNCHER category by default, but focus management is working on such boxes since Android 7 with a little modification of the react-native Platform.isTV code. I currently don't see so much more differences than the conditional compilation.

However, I will do more tests over time on this topic.

[pavjacko]

ok. let's give it a shot. for the PR we need to start documenting such API changes / additions. in this case that would be https://github.com/pavjacko/renative/blob/develop/docs/DOC_PLAT_ANDROID.md which ends up here https://renative.org/docs/android

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