Required tools

• NodeJS (I'm using v9.8.0)
• Yarn (v1.5.1 is used here), npm refused to install dependencies properly
• React Native CLI
• Python 2 (v2.7.14)
• JDK 8
• Android Studio (use the latest one)

How to install

Just read & follow this instructions to wire up the abovementioned soft

Once you've installed all needed tools & clone the repo - run yarn in order to pull all dependencies (you can still use npm if you want to: npm install)

How to launch the app

And then type react-native run-android or react-native run-ios to launch the app in Android or IOS emulator respectively

NOTE: in order to create a brand new react-native app run react-native init <your-project-name> (this is how I did the initial deployment)