feat: use prebuilt React Native for iOS#3955
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radoslawrolka wants to merge 2 commits intosoftware-mansion:mainfrom
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feat: use prebuilt React Native for iOS#3955radoslawrolka wants to merge 2 commits intosoftware-mansion:mainfrom
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I briefly checked debugging and it seems that debug symbols aren't available in XCode - meaning that for some more advanced debugging sessions we'd have to locally rollback to building from source. If this change proves to be counterproductive it can revert it later.
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Hey, as you can see in the Podfile, we've explicitly disabled the prebuilt. FabricExample is the main application where we do lib testing & development, which very often requires us to add patch / logs & debug RN behaviour.
I won't accept the change in this form - it will be counterproductive.
What I can agree for is prebuilt configured for CI only, e.g. by verifying that RCT_USE_PREBUILT_RNCORE is explicitly set to 1 in the env.
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Speed up the build process from ~6min to ~3min (macos-xlarge-latest)
I briefly checked debugging and it seems that debug symbols aren't available in XCode - meaning that for some more advanced debugging sessions we'd have to locally rollback to building from source.
If this change proves to be counterproductive we can revert it later. It will significantly speed up the builds on CI, in local development it can be easily switched off
same in react-native-reanimated: software-mansion/react-native-reanimated#8983
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Test plan
build FabricExample and try to debug something
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