Build ReactAndroid from source

android/app/build.gradle

@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ android {
 dependencies {
     implementation fileTree(dir: "libs", include: ["*.jar"])
     //noinspection GradleDynamicVersion
-    implementation "com.facebook.react:react-native:+"  // From node_modules
+    implementation project(':ReactAndroid')
 
     implementation "androidx.swiperefreshlayout:swiperefreshlayout:1.0.0"
 
@@ -208,6 +208,10 @@ dependencies {
     }
 }
 
+configurations.all {
+    exclude group: 'com.facebook.react', module: 'react-native'
+}
+
 // Run this once to be able to run the application with BUCK
 // puts all compile dependencies into folder libs for BUCK to use
 task copyDownloadableDepsToLibs(type: Copy) {

android/build.gradle

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ buildscript {
     }
     dependencies {
         classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.5.3")
+        classpath 'de.undercouch:gradle-download-task:4.0.2'
         // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
         // in the individual module build.gradle files
     }

android/settings.gradle

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
 rootProject.name = 'LogBoxTest'
 apply from: file("../node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-android/native_modules.gradle"); applyNativeModulesSettingsGradle(settings)
+
+include ':ReactAndroid'
+project(':ReactAndroid').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native/ReactAndroid')
+
 include ':app'