react-native: [0.57][ANDROID] Signed release do not show local assets images.

I have the same issue for more than 2 years! why nobody can find a solution!!!? none of the provided solutions is working permanently! react native 0.59.6 gradle 4.4 android 27,28 none working

I am using the 0.59 version but I am still facing this issue

Set shrinkResources to false will work in this case. shrinkResource compress the local assets and hence it does not appear in the release build.

release {
            ..
            minifyEnabled true
            shrinkResources false

        }

I found right way for Android.

1. First of all, you need to copy you image to android/app/srs/main/assets/ . You may do this manually or with a help of gradle tasks.
2. Use right source via uri for android: <Image source={Platform.OS === 'android' ? {uri: "asset:/image.png"} : require('./image.png')} />
3. Then just build release version of apk.

For iOS it is a bit simplier, you just copy assets and use require .

I think, issue may be closed.

EDIT. Example of my task plased in android/app/build.gradle:

task copyLogo(type: Copy) {
    from '../../assets/images/login_logo.png' // destination to where your image placed
    into 'src/main/assets'
}
// Note that you may need to add other build variants
gradle.projectsEvaluated {
    bundleDebugJsAndAssets.dependsOn([copyLogo])
    bundleReleaseJsAndAssets.dependsOn([copyLogo])
}

And requiring that image:

<Image
   source={Platform.OS === 'ios' ? require('./login_logo.png') : {uri: "asset:/login_logo.png"}}
   style={STYLES.logoImage}
/>

I am using the 0.59.6 and I am have this issue

Any fix/temporary solution for this ? 😕

I tried #21309 (comment) But didn’t help!

Here’s my env:

"react": "16.7.0",
"react-native": "0.57.8",

Dirty fix: Transform images to base64 and import them as js files

I was able to solve the problem by manually running 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

However, why was copying images to their respective asset folders not required before?

Unfortunately problem still exists in react-native 0.57.7 How other fellow React-Native/Android developers are working around this issue? It seems major that local images are missing in the release build…

@shinriyo That is a completely separate issue, in order to update to 0.57 you need to first run yarn add metro-react-native-babel-preset

Then, change .babelrc preset to

{
  "presets": ["module:metro-react-native-babel-preset"]
}

Hello there 👋 this issue has been reported for an old version of React Native. Ideally we’d like everyone to be using 0.59 (see the awesome changes it brought) but we know updating can be a pain. We are going to close this issue because it’s from a version before 0.57, which is really old.

But please, if it’s actually still an issue with 0.59 please comment below and we can reopen it 😊

somehow I fixed the issue and I don’t remember how a few months back when I upgraded to .59.1 then slowly the project fine till 0.59.8. Yesterday, I upgraded to 0.59.9 and this issue came up. 😦 … look like this could be linked to gradle properties.

0.59.8 still same issue…

change build.grandle buildTypes:{ // shrinkResources true }

Manually create a bundle(react-native bundle command) and comment this line “…/…/node_modules/react-native/react.gradle” from android/app/build.gradle file. If you face any issue like index.js/index.android.js not found give, the absolute path(for linux - /home/{user}/project-dir) of index.js file and output file.

I’ve upgraded my react native to 57.7 react to 16.3.2 build tools gradle to 3.2.0 gradle to 4.6

and removed all drawable* folders

rm -rf android/app/src/main/res/drawable-*

from gradle.properties remove android.enableAapt2=false

#use the following command to bundle assets:

react-native bundle --platform android --dev false --entry-file index.android.js --bundle-output android/app/src/main/assets/index.android.bundle --assets-dest android/app/build/intermediates/res/merged/release/

now generate release apk using following command. cd android && ./gradlew assembleRelease && cd ..

Note: bundled assets folder in RN > 57 has changed to android/app/build/intermediates/res/merged/release/

I can’t, after execute that command i get the duplicated assets error, and if i don’t remove the assets moved to the res folder the application won’t run 😕 Probably will just need to downgrade just to make the signed APK.