Description

Following on the issue #21132 I came to a slightly different problem. It seems that that issue refers to using react-native run-android, and that seems to finally work properly, i.e. the bundle is added to the APK properly.

But when building from Android Studio for release the bundle is still missing. I finally found the problem to be the same. build.gradle states that the default setting for jsBundleDirRelease is $buildDir/intermediates/assets/release, which is wrong. This must be changed to $buildDir/intermediates/assets/release/mergeReleaseAssets for Gradle to take the asset and add it to the APK.

So to avoid having to set jsBundleDirRelease to a proper value, it would be good to have the default value updated for this to work not only from the react-native run-android script, but also from Android Studio.

Version

0.66.4

Output of npx react-native info

System:
OS: macOS 12.2
CPU: (10) arm64 Apple M1 Pro
Memory: 195.25 MB / 16.00 GB
Shell: 5.8 - /bin/zsh
Binaries:
Node: 16.13.0 - /usr/local/bin/node
Yarn: 1.22.15 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
npm: 8.3.0 - /usr/local/bin/npm
Watchman: Not Found
Managers:
CocoaPods: 1.11.2 - /usr/local/bin/pod
SDKs:
iOS SDK:
Platforms: DriverKit 21.2, iOS 15.2, macOS 12.1, tvOS 15.2, watchOS 8.3
Android SDK:
API Levels: 26, 29, 30, 31, 32
Build Tools: 30.0.2, 30.0.3, 32.0.0
System Images: android-32 | Google APIs ARM 64 v8a
Android NDK: Not Found
IDEs:
Android Studio: 2021.1 AI-211.7628.21.2111.8092744
Xcode: 13.2.1/13C100 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
Languages:
Java: 11.0.11 - /usr/bin/javac
npmPackages:
@react-native-community/cli: Not Found
react: ^17.0.2 => 17.0.2
react-native: ^0.66.4 => 0.66.4
react-native-macos: Not Found
npmGlobalPackages:
react-native: Not Found

Steps to reproduce

Just try to build for release in Android Studio. Then inspect the APK in app/build/intermediates/apk and find that the assets folder is missing.

Snack, code example, screenshot, or link to a repository

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