AAC Native
Multilangual react native AAC application for autism or non-verbal spectrum. AAC (Augmentative Alternative Communication) apps help people with autism, special needs or non-verbals. This app is created with picture exchange communication system (PECS) theory.
The Picture Exchange Communication System, or PECS, allows people with little or no communication abilities to communicate using pictures. People using PECS are taught to approach another person and give them a picture of a desired item in exchange for that item.
See the published Android app here.
This project was bootstrapped with Create React Native App.
Below you'll find information about performing common tasks. The most recent version of this guide is available here.
Available Scripts
If Yarn was installed when the project was initialized, then dependencies will have been installed via Yarn, and you should probably use it to run these commands as well. Unlike dependency installation, command running syntax is identical for Yarn and NPM at the time of this writing.
npm start
Runs your app in development mode.
Open it in the Expo app on your phone to view it. It will reload if you save edits to your files, and you will see build errors and logs in the terminal.
Sometimes you may need to reset or clear the React Native packager's cache. To do so, you can pass the --reset-cache flag to the start script:
npm start -- --reset-cache
# or
yarn start -- --reset-cache
npm test
Runs the jest test runner on your tests.
npm run ios
Like npm start, but also attempts to open your app in the iOS Simulator if you're on a Mac and have it installed.
npm run android
Like npm start, but also attempts to open your app on a connected Android device or emulator. Requires an installation of Android build tools (see React Native docs for detailed setup). We also recommend installing Genymotion as your Android emulator. Once you've finished setting up the native build environment, there are two options for making the right copy of adb available to Create React Native App:
Using Android Studio's adb
- Make sure that you can run adb from your terminal.
- Open Genymotion and navigate to
Settings -> ADB. Select “Use custom Android SDK tools” and update with your Android SDK directory.
Using Genymotion's adb
- Find Genymotion’s copy of adb. On macOS for example, this is normally
/Applications/Genymotion.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/. - Add the Genymotion tools directory to your path (instructions for Mac, Linux, and Windows).
- Make sure that you can run adb from your terminal.
npm run web
React Native is awesome, with the help of react-native-web now our project can be rendered on the browser and we can use run a development server while building the application, no need of a phone or an emulator.