Debugging a React Native app from an APK running on a physical Android device is slightly different from debugging in development mode (npx react-native run-android
). Once you build a release APK, it's optimized, minified, and doesn't have debugging tools attached by default. Here's a structured approach depending on whether you're using a debug build APK or a release build APK.
If you built a debug APK (debug.apk
), debugging is easy: