React-native-navigation: Installation instructions appear to be out of date.

[Asday]

Issue Description

The current android installation instructions refer to editing files which do not exist, namely those within android/.

Steps to Reproduce / Code Snippets / Screenshots

• Run npm install -g create-react-native-app;
• Run create-react-native-app test && cd text
• Observe the lack of android/.

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Environment

• React Native Navigation version: N/A
• React Native version: 0.49.5
• Platform(s) (iOS, Android, or both?): Android
• Device info (Simulator/Device? OS version? Debug/Release?): N/A

[Fuhrmann]

Hello @Asday! When you create a React Native project using create-react-native-app it will not create an 'android' folder:

Create React Native App makes it easy to start working on React Native apps by removing native code build tools from the equation.

Check out the docs for more information: https://github.com/react-community/create-react-native-app/blob/master/EJECTING.md

[Asday]

Ok so I _have_ to eject? Fair enough. Could that be added to your docs? I was a little lost.

[drochetti]

My two cents is that create-react-native-app is actually toxic to the React Native community. It seems like a default and straightforward way of developing in ReactNative but it is very opinionated and brings a lot of 3rd party dependencies and actually ties you with a commercial product (Expo) by default.

I believe ReactNative docs should call that out and make the old and simple react-native init the default way of creating apps.

While that doesn't happen, I believe it's worth it to call that out in the navigation docs.

[Asday]

Expo is a commercial product? It looks free to me.

Besides, here isn't the place to bring that up. That should go on react native's issue list.

[LouisJS]

Well. Expo actually provides a lot of features and coding environment setup.
It really is sad that we couldn't use both Expo and react-native-navigation

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