Solved: Unable to load script from assets ‘index.android.bundle’

Lets fix this error, once and for all!

Follow this

1. Go to your project directory and check if this folder exists android/app/src/main/assets

i) If it exists then delete two files viz index.android.bundle and index.android.bundle.meta

ii) If the folder assets doesn’t exist then create the assets directory there.

2. From your root project directory do

cd android
./gradlew clean

3. Finally, navigate back to the root directory and check

i) If there is only one file i.e. index.js then run following command

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

NOTE: That is one single command.

ii) If there are two files i.e index.android.js and index.ios.js then run this

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

This is a single command too!

4. Now run react-native run-android

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