Remove the installArchives task (#41832)

Summary:
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/41832

I'm removing the `installArchives` task and all the setup to publish
the Maven Local inside the NPM package as we're not using this entirely
and we won't be able to use it anyway (as the Maven Local is too big to fit an NPM package).

Changelog:
[Internal] [Changed] - Remove the installArchives task

Reviewed By: GijsWeterings

Differential Revision: D51890224

fbshipit-source-id: 3ffdc67a9fe931118596f6f74a5a2df0313ca3f2

build.gradle.kts

@@ -90,15 +90,6 @@ tasks.register("build") {
   dependsOn(gradle.includedBuild("react-native-gradle-plugin").task(":build"))
 }
 
-tasks.register("publishAllInsideNpmPackage") {
-  description =
-      "Publish all the artifacts to be available inside the NPM package in the `android` folder."
-  // Due to size constraints of NPM, we publish only react-native and hermes-engine inside
-  // the NPM package.
-  dependsOn(":packages:react-native:ReactAndroid:installArchives")
-  dependsOn(":packages:react-native:ReactAndroid:hermes-engine:installArchives")
-}
-
 tasks.register("publishAllToMavenTempLocal") {
   description = "Publish all the artifacts to be available inside a Maven Local repository on /tmp."
   dependsOn(":packages:react-native:ReactAndroid:publishAllPublicationsToMavenTempLocalRepository")

packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/DevExperience.md

@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-Here's how to test the whole dev experience end-to-end. This will be eventually merged into the [Getting Started guide](https://reactnative.dev/docs/getting-started).
-
-Assuming you have the [Android SDK](https://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/index.html) installed, run `android` to open the Android SDK Manager.
-
-Make sure you have the following installed:
-
-- Android SDK version 23
-- SDK build tools version 23
-- Android Support Repository 17 (for Android Support Library)
-
-Follow steps on https://github.com/react-native-community/cli/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md, but be sure to bump the version of react-native in package.json to some version > 0.9 (latest published npm version) or set up proxying properly for react-native
-
-- From the react-native-android repo:
-  - `./gradlew :ReactAndroid:installArchives`
-  - *Assuming you already have android-jsc installed to local maven repo, no steps included here*
-- `react-native init ProjectName`
-- Open up your Android emulator (Genymotion is recommended)
-- `cd ProjectName`
-- `react-native run-android`
-
-In case the app crashed:
-
-- Run `adb logcat` and try to find a Java exception

packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/build.gradle.kts

@@ -454,8 +454,6 @@ val packageReactNdkLibsForBuck by
       into("src/main/jni/prebuilt/lib")
     }
 
-val installArchives by tasks.registering { dependsOn("publishAllPublicationsToNpmRepository") }
-
 repositories {
   // Normally RNGP will set repositories for all modules,
   // but when consumed from source, we need to re-declare

packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/hermes-engine/build.gradle

@@ -75,10 +75,6 @@ task downloadHermes(type: Download) {
     dest(new File(downloadsDir, "hermes.tar.gz"))
 }
 
-task installArchives {
-    dependsOn("publishAllPublicationsToNpmRepository")
-}
-
 task unzipHermes(dependsOn: downloadHermes, type: Copy) {
     from(tarTree(downloadHermes.dest)) {
         eachFile { file ->

packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/publish.gradle

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ def signingKey = findProperty("SIGNING_KEY")
 def signingPwd = findProperty("SIGNING_PWD")
 
 def reactAndroidProjectDir = project(':packages:react-native:ReactAndroid').projectDir
-def androidOutputUrl = "file://${reactAndroidProjectDir}/../android"
 def mavenTempLocalUrl = "file:///tmp/maven-local"
 
 publishing {
@@ -65,10 +64,6 @@ publishing {
     }
 
     repositories {
-        maven {
-            name = "npm"
-            url = androidOutputUrl
-        }
         maven {
             name = "mavenTempLocal"
             url = mavenTempLocalUrl

scripts/run-ci-e2e-tests.js

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ try {
     describe('Compile Android binaries');
     if (
       exec(
-        './gradlew :ReactAndroid:installArchives -Pjobs=1 -Dorg.gradle.jvmargs="-Xmx512m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError"',
+        './gradlew publishAllToMavenTempLocal -Pjobs=1 -Dorg.gradle.jvmargs="-Xmx512m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError"',
       ).code
     ) {
       echo('Failed to compile Android binaries');