[RN][GHA] Add Android Helloworld test on PR

Will run test_android_helloworld when users create a PR, to provide
coverage while we figure out what's going on with our CircleCI tests /
deprecate them.

Changelog: [Internal]

.circleci/config.yml

@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ parameters:
     default: false
     type: boolean
 
+  skip:
+    default: true 
+    type: boolean
+
 jobs:
   choose_ci_jobs:
     docker:
@@ -59,6 +63,9 @@ jobs:
       - run:
           name: Yarn Install
           command: yarn install
+      - when:
+          condition:
+            - equal: [ false, << pipeline.parameters.skip ]
       - when:
           condition:
             or:

.github/workflows/android.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+name: Test Android Helloworld on PR
+
+on: [workflow_dispatch, pull_request, push]
+
+jobs:
+  prepare_hermes_workspace:
+    runs-on: 4-core-ubuntu
+    env:
+      HERMES_WS_DIR: /tmp/hermes
+      HERMES_VERSION_FILE: packages/react-native/sdks/.hermesversion
+      BUILD_FROM_SOURCE: true
+    outputs:
+      react-native-version: ${{ steps.react-native-version.outputs.version }}
+      hermes-version: ${{ steps.hermes-version.outputs.version }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/[email protected]
+      - name: Setup node.js
+        uses: ./.github/actions/setup-node
+      - name: Setup hermes version
+        id: hermes-version
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p "/tmp/hermes" "/tmp/hermes/download" "/tmp/hermes/hermes"
+
+          if [ -f "$HERMES_VERSION_FILE" ]; then
+            echo "Hermes Version file found! Using this version for the build:"
+            echo "VERSION=$(cat $HERMES_VERSION_FILE)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          else
+            echo "Hermes Version file not found!!!"
+            echo "Using the last commit from main for the build:"
+            HERMES_TAG_SHA=$(git ls-remote https://github.com/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY main | cut -f 1 | tr -d '[:space:]')
+            echo "VERSION=$HERMES_TAG_SHA" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          fi
+          echo "Hermes commit is $HERMES_TAG_SHA"
+      - name: Get react-native version
+        id: react-native-version
+        run: |
+          VERSION=$(cat packages/react-native/package.json | jq -r '.version')
+          # Save the react native version we are building in an output variable so we can use that file as part of the cache key.
+          echo "VERSION=$VERSION" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "React Native Version is $VERSION"
+      - name: Cache hermes workspace
+        uses: actions/[email protected]
+        with:
+          path: |
+            /tmp/hermes/download/
+            /tmp/hermes/hermes/
+          key: v1-hermes-${{ steps.hermes-version.outputs.version }}-${{ github.run_number }}
+          enableCrossOsArchive: true
+      - name: Yarn- Install Dependencies
+        run: yarn install --non-interactive
+      - name: Download Hermes tarball
+        run: |
+          node packages/react-native/scripts/hermes/prepare-hermes-for-build ${{ github.event.pull_request.html_url }}
+          cp packages/react-native/sdks/download/* $HERMES_WS_DIR/download/.
+          cp -r packages/react-native/sdks/hermes/* $HERMES_WS_DIR/hermes/.
+
+          echo ${{ steps.hermes-version.outputs.version }}
+
+  test_android_helloworld:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: prepare_hermes_workspace
+    container:
+      image: reactnativecommunity/react-native-android:latest
+    env:
+      # Set the encoding to resolve a known character encoding issue with decompressing tar.gz files in conatiners
+      # via Gradle: https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/23391#issuecomment-1878979127
+      LC_ALL: C.UTF8
+      YARN_ENABLE_IMMUTABLE_INSTALLS: false
+      TERM: "dumb"
+      GRADLE_OPTS: "-Dorg.gradle.daemon=false"
+      TARGET_ARCHITECTURE: "arm64-v8a"
+    continue-on-error: true
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        flavor: [Debug, Release]
+        architecture: [NewArch, OldArch]
+        jsengine: [Hermes, JSC]
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/[email protected]
+      - name: Cache setup
+        id: cache_setup
+        uses: ./.github/actions/cache_setup
+        with:
+          hermes-version: ${{ needs.prepare_hermes_workspace.outputs.hermes-version }}
+          react-native-version: ${{ needs.prepare_hermes_workspace.outputs.react-native-version }}
+      - name: Run yarn
+        shell: bash
+        run: yarn install --non-interactive
+      - name: Disk check 1
+        shell: bash
+        if: always()
+        run: du -h
+      - name: Setup gradle
+        uses: ./.github/actions/setup-gradle
+      - name: Disk check 2
+        shell: bash
+        if: always()
+        run: du -h
+      - name: Build CodeGen JS scripts
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          cd packages/react-native-codegen
+          yarn run build
+      - name: Monitor Disk utilization (before build)
+        shell: bash
+        if: always()
+        run: |
+          echo "On Runner:"
+          df -h
+          echo "Root:"
+          du -hs *
+          echo "Projects folder:"
+          du -hs ./packages/*
+      - name: Build the Helloworld application for ${{ matrix.flavor }} with Architecture set to ${{ matrix.architecture }}, and using the ${{ matrix.jsengine }} JS engine.
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          cd packages/helloworld/android
+          args=()
+          if [[ ${{ matrix.architecture }} == "OldArch" ]]; then
+            args+=(--arch old)
+          fi
+          if [[ ${{ matrix.jsengine }} == "JSC" ]]; then
+            args+=(--jsvm jsc)
+          fi
+          if [[ ${{ matrix.flavor }} == "Release" ]]; then
+            args+=(--prod)
+          fi
+          yarn build android "${args[@]}" -P reactNativeArchitectures="$TARGET_ARCHITECTURE"
+      - name: Monitor Disk utilization (after build)
+        shell: bash
+        if: always()
+        run: |
+          echo "On Runner:"
+          df -h
+          echo "Root:"
+          du -hs *
+          echo "Projects folder:"
+          du -hs ./packages/*
+      - name: Upload artifact
+        uses: actions/[email protected]
+        with:
+          name: template-apk-${{ matrix.flavor }}-${{ matrix.architecture }}-${{ matrix.jsengine }}
+          path: ./app/build/outputs/apk/
+          compression-level: 0
+