Building Release apk Causes Crash

[humble-programmer]

New Version

0.71

Old Version

0.70

Build Target(s)

Android release

Output of react-native info

System:
OS: macOS 12.3.1
CPU: (8) arm64 Apple M1
Memory: 95.72 MB / 8.00 GB
Shell: 5.8 - /bin/zsh
Binaries:
Node: 18.14.2 - /opt/homebrew/opt/node@18/bin/node
Yarn: Not Found
npm: 9.5.0 - /opt/homebrew/opt/node@18/bin/npm
Watchman: 2023.02.13.00 - /opt/homebrew/bin/watchman
Managers:
CocoaPods: 1.11.3 - /opt/homebrew/bin/pod
SDKs:
iOS SDK:
Platforms: DriverKit 21.4, iOS 15.4, macOS 12.3, tvOS 15.4, watchOS 8.5
Android SDK:
API Levels: 21, 23, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33
Build Tools: 30.0.2, 30.0.3, 31.0.0, 33.0.0, 33.0.0
System Images: android-23 | Google APIs ARM EABI v7a, android-23 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-23 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom_64, android-24 | Google APIs ARM 64 v8a, android-31 | Google APIs ARM 64 v8a, android-33 | Google APIs ARM 64 v8a
Android NDK: Not Found
IDEs:
Android Studio: Not Found
Xcode: 13.3/13E113 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
Languages:
Java: 11.0.12 - /usr/bin/javac
npmPackages:
@react-native-community/cli: Not Found
react: 18.2.0 => 18.2.0
react-native: 0.71.4 => 0.71.4
react-native-macos: Not Found
npmGlobalPackages:
react-native: Not Found

Issue and Reproduction Steps

When trying to build the release apk, the command I always use is now crashing after upgrading to version 0.71. The command is:
./gradlew clean assembleRelease -x bundleReleaseJsAndAssets

The error message is:
Task 'bundleReleaseJsAndAssets' not found in root project 'ProjectName'

After looking deeper, I figured out that this is happening because react.gradle has been deprecated on version 0.71. It is unclear how else I should build the release apk, because running it without the "-x bundleReleaseJsAndAssets" flag doesn't work either (I started adding the flag long ago because it was always a hassle without it).

[Neba-Emmanuel]

Basically as-is you were telling it to exclude a task that might not be part of your project.
So possibly try running this instead:

./gradlew assembleRelease -x bundleDevReleaseJsAndAssets

[humble-programmer]

But isn't bundleDevReleaseJsAndAssets for a dev variant? Can it be used for the release/production variant?

[cortinico]

When trying to build the release apk, the command I always use is now crashing after upgrading to version 0.71. The command is:
./gradlew clean assembleRelease -x bundleReleaseJsAndAssets

You should just ./gradlew assembleRelease to create a release APK

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Closing as answered