Wrong (or at least not descriptive) "error Android project not found" msg

[scarlehoff]

Description

A badly formatted AndroidManifest file will make react-native run-android fail with the following message:

error Android project not found. Are you sure this is a React Native project? If your Android files are located in a non-standard lo
cation (e.g. not inside 'android' folder), consider setting `project.android.sourceDir` option to point to a new location

It will be very useful to either point to the actual error or just say that it could not run for some reason without giving a wrong reason.

React Native version:

Binaries:
Node: 14.3.0 - /usr/bin/node
Yarn: 1.22.4 - /usr/bin/yarn
npm: 6.14.5 - /usr/bin/npm
Watchman: 4.9.0 - /usr/bin/watchman
SDKs:
Android SDK:
API Levels: 28, 29
Build Tools: 28.0.3, 29.0.2, 29.0.3
System Images: android-29 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom
npmPackages:
react: 16.11.0 => 16.11.0
react-native: 0.62.2 => 0.62.2
npmGlobalPackages:
react-native: 0.60.5

Steps To Reproduce

1. Open android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
2. Add some random mistakes
3. Try to run react-native run-android

Great project and thank you very much for your hard work!

[dclipca]

I have the same behavior.

[amangoelfv]

any update ?

[soorajnraju]

I also faced the same issue

[safaiyeh]

Hi @scarlehoff thank you for the issue!

I've bumped into this too 😅 pretty annoying. This issue board is for issues pertaining to React Native core items. Please file an issue with the CLI repo, they can better address this. Thanks!

https://github.com/react-native-community/cli

[BenHurMartins]

Faced same issue, almost rewrote all the project from scratch, thanks.

[janilamppu]

Encountered the same message. Had ” instead of " in AndroidManifest.xml. Spent a good while looking until I found this discussion. Thanks!

[joaorenatojr87]

Description

A badly formatted AndroidManifest file will make react-native run-android fail with the following message:

Indeed I got lost for a few minutes because of this. Thanks a lot!