Increasing minSdkVersion result in "couldn't find DSO to load: libhermes.so" (Hermes is disabled)

Summary

1. Init new expo project
2. Install expo-dev-client
3. Increase minSdkVersion to 23 (or higher)
4. Run android

Expected: App launches successfully Actual: App crashes with “couldn’t find DSO to load: libhermes.so”

! Cannot reproduce it on expo sdk below 45 ! Cannot reproduce it with minSdkVersion below 23

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

bare

What platform(s) does this occur on?

Android

Package versions

expo: 45.0.0 (and above) expo-dev-client: 0.9.5 expo-cli: 5.4.3

Environment

expo-env-info 1.0.3 environment info:     System:       OS: macOS 12.3.1       Shell: 5.8 - /bin/zsh     Binaries:       Node: 14.17.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v14.17.0/bin/node       Yarn: 1.22.17 - /opt/homebrew/bin/yarn       npm: 6.14.13 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v14.17.0/bin/npm     Managers:       CocoaPods: 1.11.3 - /opt/homebrew/bin/pod     SDKs:       iOS SDK:         Platforms: DriverKit 21.4, iOS 15.4, macOS 12.3, tvOS 15.4, watchOS 8.5     IDEs:       Android Studio: 2021.1 AI-211.7628.21.2111.8139111       Xcode: 13.3.1/13E500a - /usr/bin/xcodebuild     npmPackages:       expo: ~45.0.0 => 45.0.3       react: 17.0.2 => 17.0.2       react-dom: 17.0.2 => 17.0.2       react-native: 0.68.2 => 0.68.2       react-native-web: 0.17.7 => 0.17.7     npmGlobalPackages:       eas-cli: 0.52.0       expo-cli: 5.4.3     Expo Workflow: bare

Reproducible demo

1. expo init repro (Choose “Bare”)
2. cd repro
3. expo run:android (Confirm it’s working)
4. yarn add expo-dev-client
5. In android/build.gradle change “minSdkVersion” to 23 (or higher)
6. expo run:android

The only change I’ve made: build.gradle.txt

Stacktrace (if a crash is involved)

Emulator:

couldn’t find DSO to load: libhermes.so SoSource 0: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource/root =/data/app/_Nu-VQEApH6ceehdAR6F6A==/ com.repro-ruyBOYzemz5NfvtXev8gmw==/lib/ arm64 flags = 0) SoSource 1: com.facebook.soloader.DirectApkSoSource[root =/data/app/_Nu-VQEApH6ceehdAR6F6A==/ com.repro-ruyBQYzemz5NfvtXev&gmw==/ base.apk!/lib/arm64-v8al SoSource 2: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource root =/system/lib64 flags = 21 SoSource 3: com.facebook.soloader. DirectorySoSource/root =/vendor/lib64 flags = 21 Native lib dir: /data/app/ ~~_Nu-VQEApH6ceehdAR6F6A==/ com.repro-ruyBOYzemz5NfvtXev8gmw==/lib/ arm64 result: 0

ADB:

15830 15830 D CompatibilityChangeReporter: Compat change id reported: 171228096; UID 10152; state: ENABLED 361 408 D goldfish-address-space: claimShared: Ask to claim region [0x1f159c000 0x1f1f04000] 361 408 D goldfish-address-space: claimShared: Ask to claim region [0x1f1f04000 0x1f286c000] 361 408 D goldfish-address-space: claimShared: Ask to claim region [0x1f4000000 0x1f4968000] 544 559 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.repro/expo.modules.devlauncher.launcher.errors.DevLauncherErrorActivity: +556ms 714 830 D EGL_emulation: app_time_stats: avg=10007.88ms min=10007.88ms max=10007.88ms count=1 544 1604 W InputManager-JNI: Input channel object ‘be06ef7 com.repro/expo.modules.devlauncher.launcher.DevLauncherActivity (client)’ was disposed without first being removed with the input manager! 544 1604 W InputManager-JNI: Input channel object ‘6ab9eff com.repro/com.repro.MainActivity (client)’ was disposed without first being removed with the input manager! 1353 1353 I GoogleInputMethodService: GoogleInputMethodService.onFinishInput():3269 1353 1353 I GoogleInputMethodService: GoogleInputMethodService.onStartInput():1947 1353 1353 I DeviceUnlockedTag: DeviceUnlockedTag.notifyDeviceLockStatusChanged():79 Notify device unlocked. 397 397 W SurfaceFlinger: couldn’t log to binary event log: overflow. 544 1604 W InputManager-JNI: Input channel object ‘c14c71a Splash Screen com.repro (client)’ was disposed without first being removed with the input manager! 714 830 D EGL_emulation: app_time_stats: avg=15.33ms min=0.97ms max=34.54ms count=54 15830 15857 D SoLoader: libreactnativejni.so not found on /data/app/~~_Nu-VQEApH6ceehdAR6F6A==/com.repro-ruyB0Yzemz5NfvtXev8gmw==/lib/arm64 15830 15857 D SoLoader: libreactnativejni.so found on DirectAPKSoSource: 4 15830 15873 D EGL_emulation: app_time_stats: avg=134.19ms min=1.73ms max=1441.09ms count=11 714 830 D EGL_emulation: app_time_stats: avg=19.14ms min=1.08ms max=101.37ms count=38 1024 1797 E ActivityThread: Failed to find provider info for com.google.android.apps.wellbeing.api 373 373 E android.hardware.power.stats@1.0-service-mock: Failed to getEnergyData 1024 1797 E ActivityThread: Failed to find provider info for com.google.android.apps.wellbeing.api

[gdogaru]

try to add this to app/build.gradle

android{
...
packagingOptions {
     jniLibs.useLegacyPackaging = true
}
...
}

[gyl89]

Same issue with the manage workflow. I tried to use the workaround by adding a packagingOptions with “expo-build-properties”, without success. Relevant code of app.config.ts:

[
     'expo-build-properties',
     {
       'android': {
         'minSdkVersion': 24,
         'packagingOptions':{
           'jniLibs': {
             'useLegacyPackaging':true
           }
         }
       }
     }
   ]

I guess that it’s a bug in the plugin which does not seem to consider jniLibsas a possible option to be added to packagingOptions. The relevant part of the build.gradefile after expo prebuildis

["pickFirsts", "excludes", "merges", "doNotStrip"].each { prop ->
    // Split option: 'foo,bar' -> ['foo', 'bar']
    def options = (findProperty("android.packagingOptions.$prop") ?: "").split(",");
    // Trim all elements in place.
    for (i in 0..<options.size()) options[i] = options[i].trim();
    // `[] - ""` is essentially `[""].filter(Boolean)` removing all empty strings.
    options -= ""

    if (options.length > 0) {
        println "android.packagingOptions.$prop += $options ($options.length)"
        // Ex: android.packagingOptions.pickFirsts += '**/SCCS/**'
        options.each {
            android.packagingOptions[prop] += it
        }
    }
}

So my solution was to create an expo plugin that adds a line to build.gradle. Namely:

const { createRunOncePlugin, withAppBuildGradle } = require('@expo/config-plugins');

const withAppBuildGradleModified = config => {
  return withAppBuildGradle(config, async file => {
    const modResults = file.modResults;
    modResults.contents = modResults.contents + '\nandroid.packagingOptions.jniLibs.useLegacyPackaging = true\n';
    return file;
  });
};




module.exports = createRunOncePlugin(
  withAppBuildGradleModified,
  'withAppBuildGradleMOdified',
  '1.0.0'
);

This solution seemed to work.