React-Native assembleRelease fails for task ':app:bundleReleaseJsAndAssets'

Question

When I run ./gradlew assembleRelease build is failed with this error:

Error:Execution failed for task ':app:bundleReleaseJsAndAssets. 
> A problem occurred starting process 'command 'node'

I searched on the internet and found some topics about it, but I couldn't solve my problem.

React-Native version: 0.54.0

EDIT:
Now I'm running ./gradlew assembleRelease --info from the terminal instead of Android Studio and I get different error.
Here is the result:

> Task :app:processReleaseResources
Putting task artifact state for task ':app:processReleaseResources' into context took 0.007 secs.
file or directory '**/android/app/libs', not found
file or directory '**/node_modules/appcenter-crashes/android/libs', not found
file or directory '**/node_modules/appcenter-analytics/android/libs', not found
file or directory '**/node_modules/appcenter/android/libs', not found
file or directory '**/node_modules/react-native-interactable/lib/android/libs', not found
file or directory '**/node_modules/react-native-navigation/android/app/libs', not found
file or directory '**/android/app/libs', not found
file or directory '**/node_modules/appcenter-crashes/android/libs', not found
file or directory '**/appcenter-analytics/android/libs', not found
file or directory '**/node_modules/appcenter/android/libs', not found
file or directory '**/node_modules/react-native-interactable/lib/android/libs', not found
file or directory '**/node_modules/react-native-navigation/android/app/libs', not found
Executing task ':app:processReleaseResources' (up-to-date check took 0.035 secs) due to:
  Task has failed previously.
All input files are considered out-of-date for incremental task ':app:processReleaseResources'.
Unable do incremental execution: full task run
file or directory '**/android/app/libs', not found
file or directory '**/node_modules/appcenter-crashes/android/libs', not found
file or directory '**/node_modules/appcenter-analytics/android/libs', not found
file or directory '**/node_modules/appcenter/android/libs', not found
file or directory '**/node_modules/react-native-interactable/lib/android/libs', not found
file or directory '**/node_modules/react-native-navigation/android/app/libs', not found
file or directory '**/android/app/libs', not found
file or directory '**/node_modules/appcenter-crashes/android/libs', not found
file or directory '**/node_modules/appcenter-analytics/android/libs', not found
file or directory '**/node_modules/appcenter/android/libs', not found
file or directory '**/node_modules/react-native-interactable/lib/android/libs', not found
file or directory '**/node_modules/react-native-navigation/android/app/libs', not found
Aapt2QueuedResourceProcessor is using **/Android/sdk/build-tools/26.0.2/aapt2
Failed to execute aapt
com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: Failed to execute aapt
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FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:processReleaseResources'.
> Failed to execute aapt

It seems gradle is looking for libs folder in all modules, but there are no libs folders in the node modules. It's true, but I don't know why gradle is looking for libs folder.

Solution 1

First:

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

finally build:

./gradlew assembleRelease -x bundleReleaseJsAndAssets

Solution 2

Looks like you haven't made a js bundle so please make a bundle first by using 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

then in your project directory

 cd android 

Clean your gradle

 ./gradlew clean

and make a build finally

./gradlew assembleDebug

Try this. Hope it will helps you.

Solution 3

For me the creating the bundle failed, but I noticed this comment by Sahin Elidemir:

just ./gradlew assembleRelease -x bundleReleaseJsAndAssets saved me.

It almost worked for me. What worked at the end was (notice the app:, which for me it fails without, and a clean for good measure):

./gradlew clean app:assembleRelease -x bundleReleaseJsAndAssets

Solution 4

Just using ./gradlew --stop and then ./gradlew assembleRelease worked for me.

Solution 5

I had the same problem, the solution was :

cd to yourApp/android folder

run this

./gradlew --stop

and then

./gradlew assembleRelease

This gonna build your app.

After build is done, go to see your application(apk).

android\app\build\outputs\apk\release

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Comments

[abbasalim]

this worked for build debug but './gradlew assembleRelease' give me errors still

[Will Goodhew]

WHen I run this in my cli it is successfully building but the APK is unsigned and when I try and sign the APK via Android studio I am getting the error above

[Daniel]

The above almost worked for me, but when I run the build, I get: Task 'bundleReleaseJsAndAssets' not found in root project

[Sahin Elidemir]

just ./gradlew assembleRelease -x bundleReleaseJsAndAssets saved me. Thx

[hannojg]

They changed to a new npm package npmjs.com/package/@sentry/react-native which I completely missed!

[Anuj]

Getting Task :react-native-firebase-analytics:verifyReleaseResources FAILED FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':react-native-firebase-analytics:verifyReleaseResources'.

[Liam Kernighan]

If you run Windows 10, use cmd with administrator rights (no git bash), make sure that you're using the actual version of @react-native-community/cli, that directory android/app/src/main/assets exists and use yarn react-native bundle instead of react-native bundle

[punjabi4life]

install has 3 l in yours

[Adriatik Gashi]

@punjabi4life didn't saw that 😂

[Chanaka Amarasinghe]

This helps a lot