[expo-splash-screen] expo install expo-splash-screen will install old version of package and lead to compilation error

🐛 Bug Report

Summary of Issue

Following the tutorial for expo-splash-screen installation on bare react native projects will lead to compilation errors https://github.com/expo/expo/tree/master/packages/expo-splash-screen#-installation-in-bare-react-native-projects

expo install expo-splash-screen will execute yarn add expo-splash-screen@^0.3.1

Then when running “yarn android” it will throw

MainActivity.java:19: error: incompatible types: boolean cannot be converted to Class<? extends ViewGroup>
    SplashScreen.show(this, SplashScreenImageResizeMode.CONTAIN, false);

If i manually update to the latest 0.4.0 yarn add expo-splash-screen@~0.4.0 the issue is resolved.

Environment - output of expo diagnostics & the platform(s) you’re targeting

  Expo CLI 3.22.3 environment info:
    System:
      OS: Windows 10 10.0.18362
    Binaries:
      Node: 14.4.0 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE
      Yarn: 1.22.4 - C:\Users\Myself\AppData\Roaming\npm\yarn.CMD
      npm: 6.14.4 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD
    npmPackages:
      expo: ~38.0.1 => 38.0.8
      react: ~16.11.0 => 16.11.0
      react-dom: ~16.11.0 => 16.11.0
      react-native: ~0.62.2 => 0.62.2
      react-native-web: ~0.11.7 => 0.11.7

Android

Reproducible Demo

Steps to Reproduce

expo init test -t bare-minimum cd test expo install expo-splash-screen react-native run-android

Expected Behavior vs Actual Behavior

The expected behavior is for compilation to succeed.

[commoddity]

Is there any way to use old version 0.3.1? Expo has it own bundled version 0.5 and running pod-install installs the higher version. Splash screen methods like preventAutoHideAsync and hideAsync only work in 0.3.1.

@gabrielbezerra81 I was having the same issue and I was able to solve it via the following steps:

• Install 'expo-splash-screen" at 0.3.1 in package.json
• Update Podfile as per unimodules instructions to exclude the included version of ‘expo-splash-screen’ by updating the line use_unimodules! to use_unimodules!(exclude: ['expo-splash-screen'])
• Manually install the expo-splash-screen pods from Podfile with the line

pod 'EXSplashScreen', :path => '../node_modules/expo-splash-screen/ios'

• Keep the AppDelegate.m file as before

After doing this and running a fresh pod install I was able to use the SplashScreen.preventAutoHideAsync and SplashScreen.hideAsync methods with their desired functionality.

[brentvatne]

This repo says 0.5.0:

you’re looking at the master branch, you should check the sdk-* branch bundledNativeModules.json when looking for the required dependency.

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that said, i just published a release of the expo package to point to expo-splash-screen@^0.5.0 in bundledNativeModules for sdk 38. this will fix the warning that users see when installing expo-splash-screen alongside the expo package. the original topic of this issue was resolved previously but the fix resulted in this aforementioned warning, and that is now resolved in expo@38.0.10.

@gabrielbezerra81 @Commoddity - let’s track the issue you’re encountering in https://github.com/expo/expo/issues/9286. i pinged @bbarthec about it