react-native run-android --variant=release does not work currently.

Description

cannot test release variant on android.

Reproduction

in console at root of project run

react-native run-android --variant=release

JS server already running. Running /usr/local/opt/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s 192.168.56.101:5555 reverse tcp:8081 tcp:8081 Building and installing the app on the device (cd android && ./gradlew installReleaseDebug)… Incremental java compilation is an incubating feature.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

What went wrong: Task ‘installReleaseDebug’ not found in root project ‘mysupercoolapp’.
Try: Run gradlew tasks to get a list of available tasks. Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

Solution

I can get it to work doing cd android && ./gradlew installRelease. Maybe the react-native command needs to be remapped to a different gradle command?

Additional Information

Someone else got this 7 hours ago on SO as well: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41263330/error-running-react-native-run-android-variant-release-task-installreleasede

React Native version: 0.39.x
Platform: Android
Operating System: MacOS

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 7 years ago
Comments:26 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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Ehespcommented, Dec 22, 2016

Yeah so this was a problem I had. Turns out there was a PR created which changed this but the documentation was also not updated. I’ll try and find the PRs for the change and docs (which hasn’t merged).

For now run:

react-native run-android --configuration=release

PR for the change: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/10867#issuecomment-266769510 PR for the docs change: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/11443

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trubincommented, Apr 4, 2017

So it seems to be because I forgot to include “signingConfig signingConfigs.release” in the “release” property of the “buildTypes” property of the app\build.gradle.

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