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Getting Up and Running

TODO does https://medium.com/surabayadev/setting-up-react-native-android-without-android-studio-35a496e1dfa3 make things simpler?

1. Install node.js
2. Install the Yarn Package Manager
3. Configure Android
   1. Install Android Studio
   2. create an ANDROID_HOME environment variable, pointing at your Android SDK directory (~/Library/Android/sdk on a Mac, most likely)
   3. Within Adroid Studio, Open an existing Android Studio project and select the android directory within this repository
   4. Create a virtual device
   5. You must launch the device in the Android emulator in order to run the application
4. Create a YouTube API key for local development (see the Getting Started guide for more information)
5. create a YOUTUBE_API_KEY environment variable equal to your API key
6. Run yarn start from within a terminal in the project directory to start the development server
7. View the application from within your Android virtual device by running yarn android in a separate terminal session