iOS app crashes after splash screen is initialized version 3.2.0

react: 16.9.0 react-native: 0.61.5

react-native-splash-screen: 3.2.0

iOs issue

Once the application starts and the splash screen is shown, the application freezes and it is not working then. The splash screen is not hidden and I can go into my application.

Error from Xcode: "Could not load NIB in bundle: 'NSBundle..."

Show splash screen in AppDelegate.m

...
[RNSplashScreen show];
[RNSplashScreen showSplash:@"LaunchScreen" inRootView:rootView];
...

[AlishahSolanki]

@tronginc @rickgrundy @metion @massoprod

The issue is, Xcode project is now updated in 0.63 with UIView nib to UIViewController in LaunchScreen.storyboard which means the function in native has to update and change view loading from nib to view controller… Easy solution replace function showSplash with below given fixed code in file RNSplashScreen.m and set storyboard id see attachment below Now it won’t crash 😃

+ (void)showSplash:(NSString*)splashScreen inRootView:(UIView*)rootView {
    if (!loadingView) {
        UIStoryboard *sb = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:splashScreen bundle:nil];
        UIViewController *vc = [sb instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:splashScreen];
        
        loadingView = vc.view;//[[[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:splashScreen owner:self options:nil] objectAtIndex:0];
        CGRect frame = rootView.frame;
        frame.origin = CGPointMake(0, 0);
        loadingView.frame = frame;
    }
    waiting = false;
    
    [rootView addSubview:loadingView];
}

[rickgrundy]

We hit the same “Could not load NIB in bundle” error after upgrading to react-native 0.63 and switching from LaunchScreen.xib to LaunchScreen.storyboard.

In our case it was solved by switching the “Main Interface” under Targets -> General -> Deployment Info to LaunchScreen.storyboard (you’ve probably already done this for “Launch Screen File”).