Hand pick fonts from react-native-vector-icons

[machour]

We are currently bundling all fonts from react-native-vector-icons (1020K) where we could be bundling only FontAwesome & Octicons (192K).

Apparently, if we avoid linking this package using react-native link, and instead configure build.gradle and iOS plist, we can achieve that.

Do we want to save 800K here or is it not worth bothering?

[machour]

I've tried to blacklist with no luck with this call:
react-native link --config=../../../../rn-cli.config.js

with git-point/rn-cli.config.js containing :

const metroBundler = require('metro-bundler');
console.log("nobody listens");

const config = {
  DEFAULTS: {
  getBlacklistRE: () => {
     console.log("I'M CALLED");
  },
}
};

module.exports = config;

running the command only display nobody listens but not I'M CALLED..

[machour]

Instead of tweaking react-native link and blacklist react-native-vector-icons, we could change yarn run link to name the libraries to link and omit react-native-vector-icons.
Then we could include only the needed fonts by tweaking app.gradle & info.plist

[machour]

Handled by @chinesedfan & @dyesseyumba 🎉 🎉 🎉