[rfc ...] use Maven AAR & Pod for platform-specific native code?

[brodycj]

In theory it should be possible to publish native Android implementations as AARs on Maven and a native iOS implementations as Pods.

I have not yet worked with this idea, hope to get a chance (someday).

Maybe an idea for react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals#49 (move iOS & Android specific functionality to their own packages).

[6pm]

you can add *.aar files as usual in rn project - just add your *.aar module to /android/libs folder and add this line to build.gradle file into dependencies section -
implementation fileTree(dir: "libs", include: ["*.aar"])