Expo 44 does not set up react-native-reanimated with expo-dev-client

Summary

When setting up react-native reanimated 2.3 with expo-dev-client. I would expect that the android setup from reanimated documentation https://docs.swmansion.com/react-native-reanimated/docs/fundamentals/installation/ is made automatically by expo. I expect this because reanimated is a package supported by the expo app.

However, when I generate the android folder and check the files, the setup is not done. If the setup is not supposed to be done automatically, we should at least add some documentation in https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/reanimated/ and eventually provide an expo plugin.

Here is a related issue: https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-reanimated/issues/2702#issuecomment-1096282710

PS: I answer managed workflow in the following because I believe that using expo dev client is still managed. Please tell me if I should change it to bare.

Managed or bare workflow? If you have ios/ or android/ directories in your project, the answer is bare!

managed

What platform(s) does this occur on?

Android

SDK Version (managed workflow only)

44

Environment

expo-env-info 1.0.2 environment info: System: OS: macOS 12.3.1 Shell: 5.8 - /bin/zsh Binaries: Node: 16.14.2 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.14.2/bin/node Yarn: 1.22.18 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.14.2/bin/yarn npm: 8.5.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.14.2/bin/npm Watchman: 2022.03.21.00 - /usr/local/bin/watchman Managers: CocoaPods: 1.11.2 - /usr/local/bin/pod SDKs: iOS SDK: Platforms: DriverKit 21.4, iOS 15.4, macOS 12.3, tvOS 15.4, watchOS 8.5 Android SDK: API Levels: 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 Build Tools: 28.0.3, 29.0.2, 29.0.3 System Images: android-19 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-21 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-22 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-23 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-24 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-24 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom_64, android-25 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-27 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-28 | Intel x86 Atom_64, android-28 | Google Play Intel x86 Atom, android-29 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-29 | Google Play Intel x86 Atom, android-30 | Google Play Intel x86 Atom IDEs: Android Studio: Bumblebee 2021.1.1 Patch 2 Bumblebee 2021.1.1 Patch 2 Xcode: 13.3.1/13E500a - /usr/bin/xcodebuild npmPackages: expo: ~44.0.0 => 44.0.6 react: 17.0.1 => 17.0.1 react-dom: 17.0.1 => 17.0.1 react-native: 0.64.3 => 0.64.3 react-native-web: 0.17.1 => 0.17.1 Expo Workflow: bare

Reproducible demo

Initiate a new project, then, setup expo dev client, add react-native-reanimated and launch the android dev client build:

expo install expo-dev-client
expo install react-native-reanimated 
expo run:android

Check android folder for setup from https://docs.swmansion.com/react-native-reanimated/docs/fundamentals/installation/

Example repository here: https://github.com/abumalick/expo-reanimated-dev-client

[jeff-polls]

I am also running into this. Thank you for digging into it @abumalick , unfortunately your plugin didn’t work for me.

Very frustrating to upgrade to the latest Expo SDK and now I can’t use Dev Client. Expo Team will this be fixed by an update to the reanimated plugin?

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