New Typescript projects created with the CLI do not build/run correctly

[bartolkaruza]

Migrated from RN core: facebook/react-native#22914

This issue covers points 2 and 3 from the React Native issue posted above.

The project does not run. After building the project and attempting to run the project on a connected device and that fails because it's looking for the APK file in the wrong place, e.g. react-native run-android --deviceId results in the following:
adb: failed to stat app/build/outputs/apk/app-debug.apk: No such file or directory
Command failed: /usr/local/share/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s 99523a0828712a92 install app/build/outputs/apk/app-debug.apk
Could not install the app on the device, read the error above for details.

This is because the APK builds to apk/debug/app-debug.apk, not apk/app-debug.apk!!!

I even tried explicitly adding the --variant debug flag and it still insists on looking for the APK in the parent folder (instead of in the "debug" child folder where the APK was built to).

[grabbou]

So this issue can be divided into two, separate parts: First, the OP has problems getting Typescript up & running (which is something to report to the maintainers of the Typescript template) and building the app on the simulator - which is something we should probably look at.

[grabbou]

I wasn't able to reproduce this issue.

Closing as per this comment: facebook/react-native#22914 (comment)