Bare App Crash in Android release build due to Splash Screen

I have an app created with expo init bare minimum. the splash screen seems to be causing a crash on the first load of a release build. I did all the required steps for building and signing the app and when running npx react-native run-android --variant=release (for testing purposes) the app builds, installs, loads but crashes exactly when the splash screen shows up. Here’s the log:

05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: Process: xxx.mypackage, PID: 17558 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.IllegalStateException: The specified child already has a parent. You must call removeView() on the child’s parent first. 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at android.view.ViewGroup.addViewInner(ViewGroup.java:5958) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at android.view.ViewGroup.addView(ViewGroup.java:5777) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at android.view.ViewGroup.addView(ViewGroup.java:5717) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at android.view.ViewGroup.addView(ViewGroup.java:5690) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at expo.modules.splashscreen.SplashScreenController$showSplashScreen$2.run(SplashScreenController.kt:33) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at android.app.Activity.runOnUiThread(Activity.java:6972) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at expo.modules.splashscreen.SplashScreenController.showSplashScreen(SplashScreenController.kt:32) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at expo.modules.splashscreen.SplashScreenController.showSplashScreen$default(SplashScreenController.kt:31) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at expo.modules.splashscreen.SplashScreenController$handleRootView$1.onChildViewRemoved(SplashScreenController.kt:116) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchViewRemoved(ViewGroup.java:5854) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at android.view.ViewGroup.removeAllViewsInLayout(ViewGroup.java:6506) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at android.view.ViewGroup.removeAllViews(ViewGroup.java:6445) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManager.clearReactRoot(ReactInstanceManager.java:723) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManager.tearDownReactContext(ReactInstanceManager.java:1112) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManager.runCreateReactContextOnNewThread(ReactInstanceManager.java:921) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManager.recreateReactContextInBackground(ReactInstanceManager.java:908) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManager.onJSBundleLoadedFromServer(ReactInstanceManager.java:896) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManager.access$200(ReactInstanceManager.java:125) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManager$2.onJSBundleLoadedFromServer(ReactInstanceManager.java:283) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at com.facebook.react.devsupport.DevSupportManagerImpl$24$1.run(DevSupportManagerImpl.java:1045) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:883) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:100) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:237) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7860) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:493) 05-30 12:44:18.897 17558 17558 E AndroidRuntime: at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1075)

Here’s my environment info:

Expo CLI 3.20.9 environment info: System: OS: macOS 10.15.2 Shell: 3.2.57 - /bin/bash Binaries: Node: 12.14.0 - /usr/local/opt/node@12/bin/node Yarn: 1.13.0 - /usr/local/bin/yarn npm: 6.13.4 - /usr/local/opt/node@12/bin/npm Watchman: 4.9.0 - /usr/local/bin/watchman IDEs: Android Studio: 3.5 AI-191.8026.42.35.6010548 Xcode: 11.4/11E146 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild npmPackages: expo: ~37.0.3 => 37.0.11 react: ~16.9.0 => 16.9.0 react-dom: ~16.9.0 => 16.9.0 react-native: ~0.61.5 => 0.61.5 react-native-web: ~0.11.7 => 0.11.7 react-navigation: ^4.3.9 => 4.3.9 npmGlobalPackages: expo-cli: 3.20.9

the device i’m running the app is a Samsung A10 - Android 10

Any help will be very much appreciated!

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