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Tagged with react-native ios
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Error Running React Native App From Terminal (iOS)
I am following the tutorial on the official React Native website.
Using the following to build my project:
react-native run-ios
I get the error:
Found Xcode project TestProject.xcodeproj
xcrun: ...
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votes
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answers
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What are my options for storing data when using React Native? (iOS and Android) [closed]
I am still new in the React Native world, and generally in the mobile/native world as well, and I am finding the documentation a bit lacking when it comes to data persistence.
What are my options for ...
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votes
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answers
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How do you debug React Native?
How does one debug their React code with React Native while the app is running in app simulator?
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React Native: How to select the next TextInput after pressing the "next" keyboard button?
I defined two TextInput fields as follows:
<TextInput
style = {styles.titleInput}
returnKeyType = {"next"}
autoFocus = {true}
placeholder = "Title" />
<TextInput
style = {...
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votes
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answers
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What is the meaning of 'No bundle URL present' in react-native?
When I run a react-native project, I get a error no bundle URL present, but I don't know what mistakes I do, I was very confused.
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answers
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React Native Change Default iOS Simulator Device
When I run this command:
react-native run-ios
My app runs by default in the iPhone6 simulator device:
Found Xcode project RN.xcodeproj
Launching iPhone 6 (9.2)...
How can I have the app run in a ...
251
votes
10
answers
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Get size of a View in React Native
Is it possible to get the size (width and height) of a certain view? For example, I have a view showing the progress:
<View ref='progressBar' style={{backgroundColor:'red',flex:this.state.progress}...
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votes
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answers
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NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription key must be present in Info.plist to use camera roll
Recently I started to get this error:
NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription key must be present in Info.plist to
use camera roll.
I am using React Native to build my app (I am not familiar with ios ...
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votes
22
answers
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react-native: command not found
I am getting -bash: react-native: command not found error while creating a react-native project.
Below are the additional info
1. brew --version
homebrew 0.9.9
2 brew info watchman
watchman `...
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votes
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answers
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How do you hide the warnings in React Native iOS simulator?
I just upgraded my React Native and now the iOS simulator has a bunch of warnings. Besides fixing them, how do I hide these warnings so that I can see what's underneath?
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answers
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Run react-native application on iOS device directly from command line?
Is it possible to run react-native application on an iOS device directly from the command line like we do on simulator with react-native run ios --simulator "iPhone 5s"?
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answers
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how to disable rotation in React Native?
I would like to support only portrait view. How can I make a React Native app not to autorotate?
I tried searching documentation and Github issues, but I didn't find anything helpful.
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answers
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Custom navigation with Navigator component in React-Native
I’m exploring possibilities of React Native while developing a demo app with custom navigation between views with the help of Navigator component.
The main app class renders navigator and inside ...
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votes
12
answers
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Get current scroll position of ScrollView in React Native
Is it possible to get the current scroll position, or the current page of a <ScrollView> component in React Native?
So something like:
<ScrollView
horizontal={true}
pagingEnabled={true}
...
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votes
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answers
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React Native Responsive Font Size
I would like to ask how react native handle or do the responsive font. For example in iphone 4s i Have fontSize: 14, while in iphone 6 I have fontSize: 18.
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Open Url in default web browser
I am new in react-native and i want to open url in default browser like Chrome in Android and iPhone both.
We open url via intent in Android same like functionality i want to achieve.
I have search ...
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votes
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answers
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`React/RCTBridgeModule.h` file not found
Getting this error while building a react-native iOS app on xcode.
Started getting this error after npm install and rpm linking react-native-fs library. But after searching online for a solution, I ...
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answers
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Print: Entry, ":CFBundleIdentifier", Does Not Exist
When I run react-native run-ios the build succeeds but I get the error below. I've checked all over the place but nothing seems to be working. Using sudo in front of the command does not help either. ...
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answers
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How to align text input correctly in react native?
The Text input is center aligned, how to fix this text input so that it takes input from top left corner
Here is my css for text input:
/* The Text input is center aligned, how to fix this text ...
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votes
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answer
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How can I determine if my React Native app is a debug or release build from JavaScript code?
I'd like to add some debug-only UI to my React Native app, but I can't find any equivalent of RCT_DEBUG or RCT_DEV compile-time flags in the JavaScript environment. Is there one?
Use case: I want to ...
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votes
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answers
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"RCTBundleURLProvider.h" file not found - AppDelegate.m
I am trying to run my React Native app in XCode and I keep getting this error. I cannot figure out how to resolve the issue. Any suggestions?
Screen Shot of Error in XCode:
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votes
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answers
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How to get current route name in react-navigation?
I want the name of the current route or screen in react-navigation which I want to use inside if condition to make some changes.
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votes
22
answers
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React Native ios build : Can't find node
I have a prototype ready to go and the project is jammed with build:
error: Can't find 'node' binary to build React Native bundle If you
have non-standard nodejs installation, select your project ...
116
votes
13
answers
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iOS Launch screen in React Native
I'm working with a React Native app and I'm trying to set a customize launch screen but I'm not able to.
React Native creates a LaunchScreen.xib by default, so I've created a LaunchImage inside Images....
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votes
9
answers
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React Native: Getting the position of an element
I am styling an Image component with flexbox to be in the center of the screen which works pretty well. Now I want a second Image component to be displayed directly on the top of the first one. The ...
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votes
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answers
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How to prevent layout from overlapping with iOS status bar
I am working on tutorial for React Native navigation. I found out that all layout starts loading from top of screen instead of below of the status bar. This causes most layouts to overlap with the ...
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votes
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answers
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How can I regenerate ios folder in React Native project?
So a while ago I deleted the /ios directory in my react native app (let's call it X). I've been developing and testing using the android emulator but now I'd like to make sure it works on ios with ...
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votes
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answers
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How to set iOS status bar background color in React Native?
Is there a single place in the react native iOS native code that I could modify to set iOS statusbar backgroundColor? RCTRootView.m ?
The react native StatusBar component only support backgroundColor ...
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votes
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answers
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Xcode 15: Unable to boot the Simulator
I was able to run iOS simulator fine with Xcode 14 and my Mac recently updated the latest version of Xcode which is 15 then I'm no longer able to boot a device from its new simulator.
I did try many ...
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votes
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answers
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React Native iOS and Android folders not present
I'm new to react native, and I've been having some trouble understanding the folder structure of the app which should supposedly be present in the project folder on creation. Basically, when creating ...
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answers
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How can I run background tasks in React Native?
I've built a little iOS app in React Native that does location tracking, sending the lat/lng regularly to a server of the user's choosing. However this only works when the app is in the foreground. ...
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answers
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TypeError: cli.init is not a function for react native
While running npx react-native init appName in MacBook air M1 chip
TypeError: cli.init is not a function
at run (/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/react-native-cli/index.js:302:7)
at createProject (/opt/...
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votes
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answers
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React Native init specific version
I upgraded my latest project to React Native 0.19 and instantly the video no longer works. How can I create a new project with a specific version? I want to init a new project at version 0.18.1. I did ...
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answers
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No template named 'unary_function' in namespace 'std'; did you mean '__unary_function'?
Just upgraded my Xcode to 15.0, and suddenly it started giving me the following error in RCT_Folly
No template named 'unary_function' in namespace 'std'; did you mean '__unary_function'?
this is the ...
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votes
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answers
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"Invariant Violation: Application AwesomeProject has not been registered" When building for iOS device with static jsbundle
First off, I don't know react, but I figured deploying to an iOS device instead of the simulator wouldn't be too difficult to do with the docs. They were a bit sparse but I got somewhere and now I'm ...
93
votes
6
answers
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clang: error: SDK does not contain 'libarclite' at the path
After Updating to Xcode 15 I am getting the following error in my react-native app while it try to build it.
clang: error: SDK does not contain 'libarclite' at the path '/Applications/Xcode.app/...
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votes
11
answers
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setTimeout in React Native
I'm trying to load a splash screen for an iOS app built in React Native. I'm trying to accomplish this through class states and then a setTimeout function as follows:
class CowtanApp extends ...
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answers
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Warning : Failed child context type: Invalid child context 'virtualizedCell.cellKey' of type 'number' supplied to 'CellRenderer', expected 'string'
I updgraded from react 16.2 -> 16.3-alpha-1 and react-native 0.52->0.54 and I get the warning above in the simulator.
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votes
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answers
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Use of bitwise '|' with boolean operands | Xcode 14.3 fails builds using react-native Yoga [closed]
Just updated my Xcode to Version 14.3 today and the build is failing with the following error in the Yoga file:
Use of bitwise '|' with boolean operands
Looks like we have some issues with the iOS ...
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votes
4
answers
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Identify Return Key action in React Native
I have a TextInput which I have enabled multiline as true. Thing is the Keyboard won't hide after Return is pressed. It goes to a new line. So I was hoping to use react-native-dismiss-keyboard. To ...
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votes
5
answers
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React-native: How to build for ios from windows
We are starting to work with react-native at my company. We have one mac and the rest of the team is running on windows.
Is there a way to write the app on windows with the ios device connected to ...
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votes
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answers
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Save sensitive data in React Native
I am building a React Native application and I need to save some sensitive data like a token and a refresh token. The obvious solution is to save that information using AsyncStorage. The problem is ...
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votes
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answers
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How to change styling of TextInput placeholder in React Native?
Is there a way to set fontStyle: 'italic' only for the placeholder of the TextInput in React Native?
looking here at the documentation seems like you can only set a placeholder and ...
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answers
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"Reanimated 2 failed to create a worklet, maybe you forgot to add Reanimated's babel plugin?"
How can I solve this error?
Reanimated 2 failed to create a worklet, maybe you forgot to add Reanimated's babel plugin?
This is my babel.config.js file :
module.exports = {
presets: ['module:metro-...
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votes
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answers
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react native use variable for image file
I know that to use a static image in react native you need to do a require to that image specifically, but I am trying to load a random image based on a number. For example I have 100 images called ...
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answers
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How to change display name of an app in react-native
Apple have clear instructions on how to change the display name of an IOS app, but they are not useful for a react-native app because the folder structure is different. How do you change the display ...
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votes
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answers
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React-Native: Error: Failed to install CocoaPods dependencies for iOS project, which is required by this template
While executing npx react-native init MyProject I ran into the following error:
✖ Installing CocoaPods dependencies (this may take a few minutes)
error Error: Failed to install CocoaPods dependencies ...
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votes
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answers
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React Native on Apple Silicon M1 - The linked library 'libPods-ProjectName.a' is missing one or more architectures required by this target: x86_64
I'm trying to build a React Native project on a MacBook Pro with a M1 architecture, for iOS simulator.
The project built nicely on Intel architecture.
It also build on device and archive well on M1. ...
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votes
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answers
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How to check internet connection in React Native application for both iOS and Android?
I have a React Native application and I'm seeking to add functionality that checks if there is an active internet connection when the app first starts up, and continuously thereafter.
If there is no ...