CI/CD with Github Actions in ReactNative Android With Firebase Distribution

GitHub Actions gives developers the ability to automate their workflows across issues, pull requests, and more — plus native CI/CD functionality.

Prerequisites

Before diving into the tutorial, make sure you have the following prerequisites ready:

1. A GitHub account.
2. A React Native project.
3. Firebase Account

Introduction to GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions are triggered by events. Common events include pushing commits, opening pull requests.

An event triggers a GitHub Actions workflow. Workflows can contain one or more jobs which are each a sequence of steps. The jobs can run in sequence or in parallel, but the steps within a job always run sequentially. In this article, each workflow has only one job.

Realtime Example

This is my github repository named Demo

First we create .github folder then inside create workflow folder and inside create yml file.

This is my yaml file

• GitHub Action Name: Give your workflow a descriptive name

 name: 'Build Android app'

• Triggers: Specify the events that should trigger your workflow, like pushes, pull request merges, tags, or releases. Define these events in the on section of your workflow file .Here’s an example for triggering the workflow on pushes to the main branch

• Jobs: Jobs are sets of steps that run on specific runner machines. Name your job and specify where it should run. In this example, we have a job named build that runs on an macos-latest runner machine:
• Runner Machines: You can specify the runner machine for your job using the runs-on keyword. GitHub Actions provides various runner machine options, such as ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, or windows-latest. Here’s how you specify it in a job:

Step 1: Checkout Repository

This step checks out your repository, making it accessible for the workflow.

- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v2

Step 2: Set up Node

Set up Java

Setup android Release

After commiting Action tab look like below

And Finally Our apk generate automatically look like below

From here we download apk.

Now we distribute apk on firebase

Open App distribution on firebase

Then create tester group then add tester

Then install firebase tool globally

install firebase tools

the get firebase token using this command firebase login 📋

Then you get

Then add firebase token and app id on github

and appid,token,tester groups on workflow.

and commit your project

After Successfully you get get build on firebase

And you get email.!!!