Unable to load script from assets index.android.bundle on windows

I'm trying to run my first React Native project for first time on my device (Android 4.2.2).

And I get:

unable to load script from assets index.android.bundle

Commands that I used:

1. cd (project directory)
2. react-native start
3. react-native run-android

I've encountered the same issue while following the React Native tutorial (developing on Linux and targeting Android).

This issue helped me resolve the problem in following steps.

1. (in project directory) mkdir android/app/src/main/assets
2. 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
3. react-native run-android

You can automate the above steps by placing them in scripts part of package.json like this:

"android-linux": "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"

Then you can just execute npm run android-linux from your command line every time.

If You are running your application on physical device and getting this error

unable to load script from assets index.android.bundle

try running the command:

adb reverse tcp:8081 tcp:8081

It workd for Me...

I spent hours trying to figure this issue out. My problem was not specific to Windows but is specific to Android.

Accessing the development server worked locally and in the emulator's browser. The only thing that did not work was accessing the development server in the app.

Starting with Android 9.0 (API level 28), cleartext support is disabled by default.

AndroidManifest.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest ...>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
    <application
        ...
        android:usesCleartextTraffic="true"
        ...>
        ...
    </application>
</manifest>

See for more info: https://stackoverflow.com/a/50834600/1713216

Using npm version 4.3.0 react-native-cli version 2.01 react-native version 0.49.5

In the project directory,

• 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

The file name has changed from index.android.js to index.js