Turns out React Native's timers (setTimeout / setInterval) don't run while the
app is in the background: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/167
This patch replaces the global timer functions with those from the
react-native-background-timer package, which work in the background.
These timers won't magically make an application work in the background, but
they will run if an application already happens to run in the background. That's
our case while in a conference, so these timers will run, allowing XMPP pings to
be sent and the conference to stay up as long as the user desires.
- Use 1 name for 1 abstraction. Instead of useFullScreen and enabled use
fullScreen.
- Comments are correct English sentences so no double spaces between
senteces, no capitalization of the work On midsentence.
- Write as little source code as possible if readability is preserved.
- Utilize Facebook's Flow.
- The name of a private function must start with _ and the jsdoc should
state that the function is private.
The implementation varies across platforms, with the same goal: allow the app to
use the entire screen real state while in a conference.
On Android we use immersive mode, which will hide the status and navigation bars.
https://developer.android.com/training/system-ui/immersive.html
On iOS the status bar is hidden, with a slide effect.
Starting version 4.x clean-css is split into two packages and we should depend on clean-css-cli for versions 4 and above. Tested it and we have currently some problem with it like fonts and images got referenced under css folder. So sticking version to 3.x for now.
A bug was discovered in d17cc9fa which would raise a failure to push
into the browser's history if a base href was defined. Fix the failure
by removing react-router. Anyway, the usage of react-router was
incorrect because the app must hit the server infrastructure when it
enters a room because the server will choose the very app version then.
In preparation for and as another early step in rewriting the Web
version of jitsi-meet using React, use Haste resolver which is able to
distinguish among platform-independent files, Web-specific and
mobile-specific ones.
Additionally, (1) make sure that Babel is capable of understanding React
files and (2) introduce React as a dependency.
The purpose is to repeatedly take small steps towards our goal and merge
them before they get in conflict with the separate ongoing advancement
of the Web version of jitsi-meet.