Loading Old Bundle in React native . While running on Physical device

Question

While trying to run generated build apk or debugging on physical device , It is loading old bundle. and not reflecting any changes, it Happens only with physical device on same network.

Following tricks are not working for me. 1.

 Run the command in a terminal: ps ax | grep react-native
    Kill all processes and run bundle script again.

2.

 rm -rf $TMPDIR/react-*

3.

--resetCache true

4.

--reset-cache

5.

Permanent delete node_modules
npm cache clean –force
npm install
npm start -- --reset-cache

deva11 · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-06T06:42:53.600

The Story Starts Here.

Was getting error while loading on physical device.

So, For fixing it. Had to follow the below lines in project root folder

mkdir android/app/src/main/assets

react-native bundle --platform android --dev false --entry-file index.js --bundle-output android/app/src/main/assets/index.android.bundle --assets-dest android/app/src/main/res

react-native run-android

From second time on wards ,need to execute following code for updating the bundle before loading into physical device

react-native bundle --platform android --dev false --entry-file index.js --bundle-output android/app/src/main/assets/index.android.bundle --assets-dest android/app/src/main/res

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 29 '18 at 14:41

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Try this to clean your current build.
cd android && ./gradlew clean
cd .. && react-native run-android

Also delete the current generated APK inside the outputs/apk folder inside android.

And if you are using windows, try running the terminal window as administrator.

answered Jan 29 '18 at 14:41

Hisham Mubarak

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Yes, I'm windows user. It's not working . Still returns old bundle output. not reflecting any changes – deva11 Jan 30 '18 at 05:01
Try uninstalling the app from emulator, or wipe data on emulator and see if it fixes this. I am not sure what's going on, just a suggestion. – Hisham Mubarak Jan 30 '18 at 05:16
No trouble with emulator, It works fine. the problem is while running on physical device only – deva11 Jan 30 '18 at 05:30
I have no clue whats going on. Did you try installing the bundle in another android device? – Hisham Mubarak Jan 30 '18 at 05:56
I fixed it and found the solution for it! – deva11 Feb 01 '18 at 04:46
Awesome! Can you post the solution using 'Answer your own question' feature? – Hisham Mubarak Feb 01 '18 at 05:01
Sure. You can find the answer below – deva11 Feb 01 '18 at 10:27

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 01 '18 at 11:04

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try this command

curl "http://localhost:8081/index.android.bundle?platform=android" -o "android/app/src/main/assets/index.android.bundle"

and after that run again following command

react-native run-android

answered Feb 01 '18 at 11:04

Khushdeep Kaur

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I see this is also another way to update the bundle for android. – deva11 Feb 01 '18 at 11:08
But the above command will return error for me since my entry file is index.js and not index.android .js .. – deva11 Feb 01 '18 at 12:50

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 07 '18 at 07:29

These are the correct steps that worked for me in order to manually build the bundle and install it on the device, been scratching my head for hours until I managed to find how to do this properly:

cd android

./gradlew clean

cd ../

react-native bundle --platform android --dev false --entry-file index.js --bundle-output android/app/src/main/assets/index.android.bundle --assets-dest android/app/src/main/res

./gradlew assembleRelease

./gradlew installRelease

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