Why my signed apk crashes?

For anyone getting this in a react-native environment, remember to bundle your js before generating the signed APK.

Easy to forget if you're using something like Android Studios GUI 🙃


In my case, I had to change the minifyEnabled to false in build.gradle

buildTypes { release { minifyEnabled false proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro' } }


Delete "gen" folder from the Project then Cleaning the project


Cleaning the project solved the problem in my case.

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Android