Update instructions to run app on iOS device using offline bundle

The instructions in the documentation to run the app on iOS device using an offline bundle says

Open ios/YourApp/AppDelegate.m Uncomment the line, jsCodeLocation = [[NSBundle mainBundle] …

Using latest version 0.30.0, such line is no longer present in the default AppDelegate.m file. Below is the excerpt from the default AppDelegate.m file

 NSURL *jsCodeLocation;

  jsCodeLocation = [[RCTBundleURLProvider sharedSettings] jsBundleURLForBundleRoot:@"index.ios" fallbackResource:nil];

  RCTRootView *rootView = [[RCTRootView alloc] initWithBundleURL:jsCodeLocation
                                                      moduleName:@"TestAppDelete"
                                               initialProperties:nil
                                                   launchOptions:launchOptions];

If I try to copy over the line from an old application and use that, I see that jsCodeLocation is returned as null.

jsCodeLocation = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:@"main" withExtension:@"jsbundle"];

Have these instructions changed? What are the new instructions to run the app using an offline bundle?

[varungupta85]

Refer to the accepted answer for this stackoverflow question. The instructions for running the app on the device have changed but they are yet to be updated on the documentation.

[PublicParadise]

Please raise the priority. The situation is pretty bad…

The current react-native documentation reads:

1. Open ios/YourApp/AppDelegate.m
2. Uncomment the line, jsCodeLocation = [[NSBundle mainBundle] ...

That’s inaccurate.

Apparently there is some hidden trick involving adding ip.txt to your XCode project: React Native 0.29+ without dev mode in iOS?

It’s also pretty unclear to me how one should integrate CodePush with RCTBundleURLProvider, see https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-code-push/issues/393

Please update the documentation ASAP. Thx!