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When I run 

npx react-native run-android --variant=release

in RN 0.61.3 and I receive this error message. 

ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'android/app/src/main/assets/index.android.bundle'

The build works fine when debugging without the release variant.

Matt Booth
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8 Answers8

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For some reason I needed to create the assets folder as per below.

android/app/src/main/assets

GabLeRoux
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Matt Booth
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  • I created project React Native, I couldn't find the assets folder. I had to create and this worked. – Diego Santa Cruz Mendezú Apr 09 '22 at 20:33
  • Failed to open file H:\My Projects\Rannlab2\BharatDarshan020App\android\app\build\generated\assets\react\release\index.android.bundle.hbc.ee6df4: no such file or directory . This is my error and your solution is not working for me. Do you have any solution for my problem? if you have please share – Rohullah Nabavi Jul 25 '22 at 07:06
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I had the assets folder already, but mistakenly had kept on being in the android folder, I went in parent directory with

cd ..

then ran the following command to generate the bundle:

npx 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
GabLeRoux
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microsoftjulius
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  • Go to android/app/src/main/
  • Create one more folder of the name assets
    It will look like android/app/src/main/assets
  • Then run it. Absolutely workable.
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5

Right click the app folder New->Folder->Assests Folder

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You can use this command:

npx mkdirp 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/
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We can use this command：npx mkdirp 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/

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You should use this command to create assets folder in android.

Run this command in project directory.

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

Please use this, Its help me.

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First of all make dir or folder named as assets inside project/android/app/src/main/ manually or by running command below from root of project

npx mkdirp android/app/src/main/assets/

then run this command from root of project:

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/

Create debug apk:

cd android/
./gradlew assembleDebug

and You will get apk here:

android/app/build/outputs/apk/
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