How to build android release but with JS dev flag enabled?

[aljidy]

Ask your Question

I need to debug my release build but I'm unsure how to pass the dev flag as true to JS.

It may be in the bundle step this is set and there is a --dev flag here https://github.com/facebook/react-native/tree/main/packages/community-cli-plugin#options-1 however Im unsure how I could set that if I were using the run-android command.

[richao03]

running into the same issue, i am building via ./gradlew assembleQa in my metro.config.js process.env.NODE_ENV is reading as development but by the time it gets into cli-plugin-metro args.dev becomes false, and everywhere down the pipe line environment becomes production and __DEV__ becomes false, am i missing a flag somewhere?

[liamjones]

I believe you can control it via your android/app/build.gradle: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/d0bb396ddb0c738524099b034276e0c3fb031347/packages/react-native/template/android/app/build.gradle#L20