expo: Release build Android APK won't show local image assets

@jdponomarev - making these changes to android/app/expo.gradle fixed the issue for me. Would you be able to give that a try on your project? If that solves the issue for you I’ll go ahead and put out a new version of expokit with the changes. Thanks 🙂

Hi @fcaride - please try this commit instead. (I’ve updated it in the previous post as well.) This change has fixed the issue that was originally reported and is now included in newly created ExpoKit projects. If that doesn’t fix things for you, could you open a new ticket with specific repro steps so that we can reproduce the exact issue you’re seeing? Thanks 🙂

Going to go ahead and close this now as the issue has been resolved.

I’m my case, it was all about gradle’s version.

I created a project on expo SDK v35 and ejected the project.

Android Studio asked me to update at some point and I silly accepted.

For Expo v35 after rolling back Gradle version to the following solved the issue : * Android Gradle Plugin Version - 3.3.2 * Gradle Version - 4.10.2

I’ve updated to SDK34, now it is not showing vector icons in released app.

I also had this problem. I fixed it by downgrade my build gradle from 3.2.1 to 3.1.3 and change the distributionUrl in the gradle-wrapper to gradle-4.4-all.zip

I had this issue Using Expo SDK 33 and Gradle 4.10.2.

The solution for me was to rewrite the doFirst hook in android/app/expo.gradle to

// Create dirs if they are not there (e.g. the “clean” task just ran) doFirst { if (!assetsDir.exists()) { assetsDir.mkdirs() } }

During the build process, the asset directory was being overwritten.

Hello,

I managed to correct my image display problem by removing this line from the app.json file. If it can help others 😃

Expo SDK 34

“assetBundlePatterns”: [        “** / *”      ]

Regards,

@lilosir that probably means you’re running an older version of gradle. That commit fixes expo.gradle so that it works with gradle 4.10.2, which ships with newly ejected SDK 32 projects. For projects upgraded from an older SDK version, though, you should either leave expo.gradle alone (older version) or update both it AND all the rest of the android gradle/config files to match the SDK 32 templates.

Hope that helps!

@jdponomarev - apologies, looks like this is not fixed for ExpoKit projects. We’re looking into it now.

Hey guys, this is not fixed for me. I’m on freshly ejected 32 SDK and upgraded to expokit@32.0.6. I don’t see assets when I analyze the bundle in Android Studio.

They’re in bundledAssets after I publish the app as well as in Filesystem object when the app is loaded.

Any ideas?

This is now fixed on our build servers – please rebuild your app with expo build:android or, if you’re using ExpoKit, upgrade to expokit@32.0.6 or later in order to get the fix.

Hey, sorry for taking so long to look into this. 😕

Could you please try upgrading your expokit NPM package to 32.0.6-rc.0 and seeing if the issue persists? 🙂

Same issue here, I just have updated ExpoKit from SDK 32 to SDK 33 and now in release app bundle there are no images and vector icons.

Thanks for posting this. I spent 3 days trying to track this down. For future reference following the links in the forum are a little confusing, so here’s a synopsis:

Change the doFirst() method in android/app/expo.gradle to check if the assetsDir does not exist then make it.

// Create dirs if they are not there (e.g. the "clean" task just ran)
doFirst {
    if (!assetsDir.exists()) {
      assetsDir.mkdirs()
    }
}

I don’t know much about Gradle… but it seems making the directory regardless of whether it exists or not should work. I’d never have figured this out. This is still an issue using a fresh “expo init” followed by “expo eject” using SDK33.

@esamelson Sure thing! It worked 👍 Thanks!

@esamelson Hey, sorry, I didn’t get why you think that’s another issue. Could you please tell me which one you are speaking of? Because actually all the symptoms look pretty the same with this issue for me

FS.bundledAssets has all the assets, assetBundlePatterns are set and everything’s fine on emulator. But when I sign a production bundle, they’re not there

Thanks!