Run developer Android app (requires package manager running on developer machine)
react-native run-android
Generate and run release variant. (Requires signing to be configured)
react-native run-android --variant=release
Generate a signed APK. (Requires signing to be configured)
cd android && ./gradlew assembleRelease
This happened on iOS when doing a react-native run-ios. I ended up doing a brew install watchman to fix this issue. I did try a few other things, like upping limits using various commands but they didn’t seem to help.