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Devon Deonarine c2404b4598 iOS: Update RCTAlertManager to use new RCTAlertController (#29295)
Summary:
This should fix https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/29082 and https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/10471

Currently when an alert is being shown while a modal is being dismissed, it causes the alert not to show and In some cases it causes the UI to become unresponsive. I think this was caused by using RCTPresentedViewController to try and display the Alert the currently presented view. The View the Alert was going to be shown on is dismissed and the modal doesn't show. I implemented a new RCTAlertController to show the alert on top of the view, the modal being dismissed should now not interfere with the alert being shown.

## Changelog

[iOS] [Fixed] - Fixed showing Alert while closing a Modal

Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/29295

Test Plan:
To recreate the bug:

1. npx react-native init Test --version 0.63.0-rc.1
2. Paste the following code into App.js

```javascript
/**
 * Sample React Native App
 * https://github.com/facebook/react-native
 *
 * format
 * flow strict-local
 */

import React from 'react';
import {
  SafeAreaView,
  StyleSheet,
  View,
  Text,
  StatusBar,
  Modal,
  Alert
} from 'react-native';

const App: () => React$Node = () => {
  const [visible, setVisible] = React.useState(false)

  const onShowModal = () => {
    setVisible(true)
  }

  onCloseBroken = () => {
    setVisible(false)
    Alert.alert('Alert', 'Alert won\'t show')
  }

  onCloseWorking = () => {
    setVisible(false)
    setTimeout(() => Alert.alert('Alert', 'Works fine'), 10)
  }

  return (
    <>
      <StatusBar barStyle="dark-content" />
      <SafeAreaView style={styles.container}>
        <Text onPress={onShowModal}>Show modal</Text>
      </SafeAreaView>
      <Modal animationType="fade" visible={visible} onRequestClose={onCloseWorking} >
        <View style={styles.container}>
          <Text onPress={onCloseBroken}>Close modal immediately</Text>
          <Text onPress={onCloseWorking}>Close modal with delay</Text>
        </View>
      </Modal>
    </>
  )
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    alignItems: 'center',
    justifyContent: 'space-around',
  },
})

export default App

```

3. cd Test && npx react-native run-ios
4. Show the modal and click the `Close modal immediately` button

The first button doesn't show the alert, the second does because it gets rendered after the modal view is dismissed. After this commit, the alert always shows on top of every view properly. You can test by pointing the react native package to my branch by modifying the package json file like this

```
    "react-native": "https://github.com/devon94/react-native.git#fix-ios-modal"
```

I was unable to reproduce the case where it causes the UI to be responsive in the test app but was able to reproduce it in our react native app at work. I can provide a video later if needed but the code is too complex to simplify into a test case.

Reviewed By: sammy-SC

Differential Revision: D22783371

Pulled By: PeteTheHeat

fbshipit-source-id: 3e359645c610074ea855ee5686c59bdb9d6b696b

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RNTester

The RNTester showcases React Native views and modules.

Running this app

Before running the app, make sure you ran:

git clone https://github.com/facebook/react-native.git
cd react-native
yarn install

Running on iOS

Both macOS and Xcode are required.

  • Install CocoaPods. We installing CocoaPods using Homebrew: brew install cocoapods
  • Run cd RNTester; pod install
  • Open the generated RNTesterPods.xcworkspace. This is not checked in, as it is generated by CocoaPods. Do not open RNTesterPods.xcodeproj directly.

Running on Android

You'll need to have all the prerequisites (SDK, NDK) for Building React Native installed.

Start an Android emulator.

cd react-native
./gradlew :RNTester:android:app:installJscDebug
./scripts/packager.sh

Note: Building for the first time can take a while.

Open the RNTester app in your emulator. If you want to use a physical device, run adb devices, then adb -s <device name> reverse tcp:8081 tcp:8081. See Running on Device for additional instructions on using a physical device.

Running with Buck

Follow the same setup as running with gradle.

Install Buck from here.

Run the following commands from the react-native folder:

./gradlew :ReactAndroid:packageReactNdkLibsForBuck
buck fetch rntester
buck install -r rntester
./scripts/packager.sh

Note: The native libs are still built using gradle. Full build with buck is coming soon(tm).

Running Detox Tests on iOS

Install Detox from here.

To run the e2e tests locally, run the following commands from the react-native folder:

yarn build-ios-e2e
yarn test-ios-e2e

These are the equivalent of running:

detox build -c ios.sim.release
detox test -c ios.sim.release --cleanup

These build the app in Release mode, so the production code is bundled and included in the built app.

When developing E2E tests, you may want to run in development mode, so that changes to the production code show up immediately. To do this, run:

detox build -c ios.sim.debug
detox test -c ios.sim.debug

You will also need to have Metro running in another terminal. Note that if you've previously run the E2E tests in release mode, you may need to delete the RNTester/build folder before rerunning detox build.

Building from source

Building the app on both iOS and Android means building the React Native framework from source. This way you're running the latest native and JS code the way you see it in your clone of the github repo.

This is different from apps created using react-native init which have a dependency on a specific version of React Native JS and native code, declared in a package.json file (and build.gradle for Android apps).