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Question

I am creating my first project with the Genymotion simulator. I can create the project by typing in the terminal:

react-native init

once created, I enter my project:

cd myproject

Now when running android to send to the simulator arises the problem. Well, when running on the terminal:

react-native run-android

it sends to the simulator, but the following error appears

I typed in the command terminal

react-native start

and I realized that I’m making a mistake...

Could someone help?

Answer 1

This problem happens because in linux (at least not in mine either) the packer is not started automatically.

What you should do is open a new terminal tab in the same project path and run npm start.

With this tab running just run in another window: react-native run-android.