App built after 4 Nov 2022 shortage crashing at launch

Expo Application Services (EAS)
1

Since before the shortage problem, I was building and running the APK without problems.

Now if I build and test the APK, it crashes. I even tried to “git checkout” older versions I made, and they crash as well.

I even have a build did before the shortage, and it works.

What’s going on?

Just using the basic eas.json and running “preview” profile

  "build": {
    "preview": {
      "android": {
        "buildType": "apk"
      }
    },
    "preview2": {
      "android": {
        "gradleCommand": ":app:assembleRelease"
      }
    },
    "preview3": {
      "developmentClient": true
    },
    "production": {}
  }
}

My dependencies

    "@react-native-async-storage/async-storage": "~1.17.3",
    "@react-navigation/native": "^6.0.13",
    "@react-navigation/native-stack": "^6.9.1",
    "@reduxjs/toolkit": "^1.8.6",
    "expo": "~46.0.16",
    "expo-image-picker": "~13.3.1",
    "expo-local-authentication": "~12.3.0",
    "expo-status-bar": "~1.4.0",
    "expo-system-ui": "~1.3.0",
    "html-to-formatted-text": "^2.7.0",
    "react": "18.0.0",
    "react-native": "0.69.6",
    "react-native-dialog": "^9.3.0",
    "react-native-heroicons": "^3.2.0",
    "react-native-pell-rich-editor": "^1.8.8",
    "react-native-popup-menu": "^0.16.1",
    "react-native-safe-area-context": "4.3.1",
    "react-native-screens": "~3.15.0",
    "react-native-svg": "12.3.0",
    "react-native-webview": "11.23.0",
    "react-redux": "^8.0.4",
    "react-uuid": "^1.0.3",
    "redux": "^4.2.0",
    "redux-persist": "^6.0.0"
2

Yes, exact same issue here. Our Android EAS builds started failing during the outage described here: Expo Status - Upstream issue with React-Native release causing all Android builds to fail - once the outage was resolved, builds started succeeding again, but attempting to run the built apps and they crashed immediately on launch.

Checked out a previous version that built and ran fine 2 days ago – it still runs fine by downloading that old APK. But attempting to rebuild the APK with exactly the same settings, and it crashes on launch.

Have tried swapping between APK/AAB, but still crashed immediately, however swapping from Hermes to JSC solved the crash.

Dependencies (among others):

    "expo": "^46.0.0",
    "expo-splash-screen": "~0.16.2",
    "expo-updates": "^0.14.6",
    "react": "18.0.0",
    "react-native": "0.69.6",
3

Yeah I was using Hermes as well. So the workaround they used to fix the shortage created problems on Hermes engine…

I hope they read this post, and try to investigate the issue. I will swap momentarily to JSC engine.

4

We have resolved this issue by temporarily disabling the Maven cache on EAS Build. Please run your build again. We will investigate the root cause on Monday.

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5

Thanks Brent, can confirm Hermes Android builds are working again.