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Reputation: 9241

How do I open react-native app in emulator?

I have a react-native app that I have just ejected from expo to a bare react-native app.

I can run yarn react-native run-android without any errors and even opens my android emulator however, I can't see my app available within the emulator.

Should this open automatically or should I see it available in the app draw?

How can I start my app within the emulator?

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note: the Who Am I app is not it. It's my built version via expo before I ejected.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1879

Answers (1)

Simon
Simon

Reputation: 6462

The command should be react-native run-android not yarn react-native run-android unless you defined the script react-native run-android as itself in your package.json.

Then the app should start by itself in the emulator, but you have to run react-native start to use it.

react-native run-android installs the app on the emulator so you should be able to find the launch icon of your app inside the emulator

Using react-native run-android without exactly one device (one emulator or one real device) leads to an error (Failed to install the app. Make sure you have an Android emulator running or a device connected. in case none is connected) thus if you don't have a real device connected your emulator is detected.

Upvotes: 1

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