React Native 'hello world' quick start: “could not connect to development server”

Question

I\'m trying to do the react native \'hello world\', and I\'m using usb debugging on my android.

I ran react-native run-android, then react-native sta

Answer 1

10 mins ago I had the same problem I guess, and the way I solved this was reading this

https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/running-on-device-android.html

and when I did that, I found that I didn't have android-tools-adb installed, so looking around I found

'No command 'adb' found' error on Ubuntu

which gives me the answer

sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb

and after all this I set

export PATH=${PATH}:~/android-sdk-linux/tools
export PATH=${PATH}:~/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools

then everything works fine, now I can see my app in my Android device.

BTW the option I choose from react native docs was the one that says me

"Using adb reverse

Note that this option is available on devices running Android 5.0+ (API 21). Have your device connected via USB with debugging enabled (see paragraph above on how to enable USB debugging on your device).

Run adb reverse tcp:8081 tcp:8081

You can use Reload JS and other development options with no extra configuration