This is a bare minimum Chat application using Stream Chat SDK build using Expo without any customization.

• Install the expo command line tool and other requirements as specified in the expo official installation documentation

git clone https://github.com/GetStream/stream-chat-react-native.git

1. In the root install the dependencies:

yarn install

2. Move to the package directory and install the dependencies:

cd package && yarn install

3. Move to the package/expo-package directory and install the dependencies:

cd expo-package && yarn install

4. Finally, Move to the app directory and install the dependencies:

cd ../../examples/ExpoMessaging && yarn install

To run the application for different platforms, use the following commands:

• For iOS

yarn ios

• For android

yarn android

Note:

If your Android build fails please add the following snippet on the android/gradle.properties to make it work.

# Disabled hermes in favour of broken Android build due to the package `react-native-quick-sqlite`:
# To Fix:
# A problem occurred evaluating project ':react-native-quick-sqlite'.
# > Cannot get property 'hermesEnabled' on extra properties extension as it does not exist
hermesEnabled=true

# disables the check for multiple instances for gesture handler
# this is needed for react-native-gesture-handler to be both a devDep of core and be a dep on the expo sample app
disableMultipleInstancesCheck=true