
App Development
React Native faster android build
Muhammad Kamran
November 11, 2025β’1 min read
Did your React Native app bundling feel slow on Android? Then you might be building it the wrong way. π
You can speed up the build & running time of your app with just one command:
yarn
yarn android --active-arch-only
npm
npx react-native run-android --active-arch-only
The reason itβs faster is that without the --active-arch-only flag, Gradle builds the app for all 4 architectures (arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64).
With this flag, it only builds for the active architecture of your device/emulator, saving huge build time β³
π Use this for development to speed up iteration.
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