Splash Screen and Icon not showing on Expo Go (Published app with EAS, working fine with expo publish)

Describe the bug

When you configure an ignite Managed Expo App (I deleted ios, android folders and index.js. Also removed react-native-bootsplash). And configured app.json from hermes to jsc in jsEngine property. Then the app is running fine local and publish but in the published version is not showing SplashScreen and Icon Image (Just showing the background color). This scenario is when you publish the app with eas update because when you do expo publish works fine.

Project with eas update:

Link to run it on Expo Go: exp://u.expo.dev/update/2b324d2b-dcf4-4fd1-98d0-51004b7447c9

https://expo.dev/accounts/stuardocortez/projects/testExpoPublish/updates/54c4dc14-277a-49ea-a580-5d1011d9ecd4

Project with expo publish:

https://expo.dev/@stuardocortez/expoPublisTest?serviceType=classic&distribution=expo-go

Ignite version

latest

Additional info

System
  platform           darwin
  arch               arm64
  cpu                10 cores          Apple M1 Pro
  directory          testExpoPublish   /Users/Stuardo/workspace/ReactNative/testExpoPublish

JavaScript (and globally-installed packages)
  node               16.17.1      /opt/homebrew/bin/node
  npm                8.15.0       /opt/homebrew/bin/npm
    corepack         0.12.1
    eas-cli          2.3.0
    expo-cli         6.0.6
    npm              8.15.0
    yarn             1.22.19
  yarn               1.22.19      /opt/homebrew/bin/yarn
  pnpm               -            not installed
  expo               46.0.15      managed

Ignite
  ignite-cli         8.2.5        /Users/Stuardo/.npm/_npx/e31027f3785124a8/node_modules/.bin/ignite
  ignite src         build        /Users/Stuardo/.npm/_npx/e31027f3785124a8/node_modules/ignite-cli/build

Android
  java               11.0.16.1    /usr/bin/java
  android home       -            /Users/Stuardo/Library/Android/sdk

iOS
  xcode              14.0.1
  cocoapods          1.11.3       /usr/local/bin/pod

Tools
  git                git version 2.37.0 (Apple Git-136)   /usr/bin/git

[frankcalise]

This could also be related https://github.com/expo/expo/issues/18691

[frankcalise]

I’d first follow the Creating your first build Expo documentation. If you don’t want to wait for the EAS queue time you can add the --local flag to build an APK or .app locally and try it on your Android device or iOS simulator.

From these steps the splash screen and app icon appear fine. Your experience is running in Expo Go still which is a preview and not a standalone app that would reflect a final product.

I can’t say what the reasoning is for the splash being different at this time but I don’t believe it would look this way when actually creating store builds - so I’d test that part first and see the results.