johannesmerkt / tauri-alpha-mobile-android-react-template

Try out Tauri Mobile for Android with this template. The frontend is using Vite + Typescript + React

Tauri Alpha for Desktop & Android + React + Typescript

This template should help get you started trying out Tauri for Android. I have not tested this project for IOS, feel free to try and contribute your changes here :)

Recommended IDE Setup

• VS Code + Tauri + rust-analyzer

Prerequisites

https://beta.tauri.app/2/guide/prerequisites/

Windows: With Visual Studio Installer install Visual Studio 2022 with Desktop development with C++ selected.

Install Nodejs

Install yarn

Install Rust with rustup

Add rustup targets:

rustup target add aarch64-linux-android armv7-linux-androideabi i686-linux-android x86_64-linux-android

Install Android Studio

Start Android Studio and go to settings and search for Android SDK

There install:

• An android SDK Platform
• Android SDK Platform-Tools
• NDK (Side by side)
• Android SDK Build-Tools
• Android SDK Command-line Tools

Set Environment Variables:

• JAVA_HOME => C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio\jbr
• ANDROID_HOME => $env:LocalAppData\Android\Sdk
• NDK_HOME => $env:LocalAppData\Android\Sdk\ndk\25.0.8775105

Install tauri-cli:

cargo install tauri-cli --version "^2.0.0-alpha"

Usage

create android project with:

yarn tauri android init

Start in dev mode with (only works when no android device is connected in emulator mode!!!):

yarn tauri android dev

Building

yarn tauri android build

Then the build app must be signed.

Create a key to sign the android app

keytool -genkey -v -keystore ./src-tauri/gen/android/release-keystore.jks -alias alias_name -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000

Now sign the app

& $env:ANDROID_HOME/build-tools/34.0.0/apksigner sign --ks ./src-tauri/gen/android/release-keystore.jks ./src-tauri/gen/android/app/build/outputs/apk/universal/release/app-universal-release-unsigned.apk

You can find the build app under:

./src-tauri/gen/android/app/build/outputs/apk/universal/release/app-universal-release-unsigned.apk

Helpful Resources to get started with tauri for andriod

• https://beta.tauri.app/2/guide/prerequisites/
• https://beta.tauri.app/2/guide/create/mobile/
• https://dev.to/lynxgsm/tauri-the-flutter-killer-5h27
• https://studioterabyte.nl/en/blog/tauri-mobile-app-development