Android emulator not displaying developer menu

[ajfick]

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Description

Running npx react-native run-android builds the app and opens in the android emulator. It will display exceptions as it should in a dev build, but the app doesn't seem to connect to the package manager or allow use of the developer menu.

I have tried adb shell input keyevent 82 as documented, Cmd + M, and shaking the device through the virtual sensors in emulator settings with no results. I also have run adb reverse tcp:8081 tcp:8081 as mentioned in a few issues on stackoverflow. The yellow warning and red error notification boxes still appear on this build, so it is a certainly a dev build.

This appears to have happened after an update to Android 28 with RN 0.59 and has followed my project on different machines including Windows and Mac.

React Native version:

  React Native Environment Info:
    System:
      OS: macOS 10.15.5
      CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6920HQ CPU @ 2.90GHz
      Memory: 753.95 MB / 16.00 GB
      Shell: 5.7.1 - /bin/zsh
    Binaries:
      Node: 14.5.0 - /usr/local/bin/node
      npm: 6.14.5 - /usr/local/bin/npm
      Watchman: 4.9.0 - /usr/local/bin/watchman
    SDKs:
      iOS SDK:
        Platforms: iOS 13.5, DriverKit 19.0, macOS 10.15, tvOS 13.4, watchOS 6.2
    IDEs:
      Android Studio: 3.6 AI-192.7142.36.36.6200805
      Xcode: 11.5/11E608c - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
    npmPackages:
      react: ^16.9.0 => 16.13.1
      react-native: ^0.59.5 => 0.59.10

Steps To Reproduce

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1. Build app with npx react-native run-android
2. In emulator, try any of the documented methods to display the developer menu

Expected Results

The developer menu should appear with one of the documented steps. However after update to Android 28 it does not.

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[fabOnReact]

True. I'll have a look tomorrow. Related #29204
Dev menu probably works with f2fdc1a but jsdebugger does not work

A good alternative is opening the project with Android Studio or Xcode and using their debugging and build tools.

[ajfick]

@fabriziobertoglio1987 I have used logcat in some cases for Android, but a related issue here is that I cannot reload the app from the metro bundler. So when I make changes to my react code, the only way I can reload is by quitting and restarting the app or reinstalling. Is there a better solution that I'm missing with regard to the built in Android Studio debugging tools perhaps?

[safaiyeh]

Hi @ajfick your React Native version is a bit old. Could you verify this still occurs in 0.63?

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[rectified95]

@safaiyeh I've just verified this on 63.3 - can't pull up the dev menu while in the simulator.

[ajfick]

@safaiyeh Version 0.63 fixed this issue for my team (we just completed an update this week). @rectified95 Are you able to connect to Flipper? Once we got flipper working, we were able to use the dev tools correctly again by hitting "R,R" in the simulator.

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