Bare Workflow: Updates.reloadAsync() makes my android app crash

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Hey guys, I used to work on ExpoKit and i’ve just switch to Bare Workflow with the new release (SDK 37). Everything is working fine except for the OTA update. I’m using the manual update for my application by calling the checkForUpdateAsync and the fetchUpdateAsync methods.

Those two methods are working (the update is fetched) but when i’m trying to reload my app after this with reloadAsync method my android app crashed with a strange error (on release).

Yet, when I’m restarting the application, the update is available.

This log is extracted from adb logcat --buffer=crash:

04-08 14:30:35.158 29276 29598 E AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: create_react_context 04-08 14:30:35.158 29276 29598 E AndroidRuntime: Process: XXXXX, PID: 29276 04-08 14:30:35.158 29276 29598 E AndroidRuntime: com.facebook.jni.CppException: facebook::react::Recoverable: Could not open file/data/user/0/XXXX/files/.expo-internal/7C6DA04432421D9566434203858FEC7C132FA97C43BD314556629A1673F750F6.js: No such file or directory 04-08 14:30:35.158 29276 29598 E AndroidRuntime: at com.facebook.react.bridge.CatalystInstanceImpl.jniLoadScriptFromFile(Native Method) 04-08 14:30:35.158 29276 29598 E AndroidRuntime: at com.facebook.react.bridge.CatalystInstanceImpl.loadScriptFromFile(Unknown Source:2) 04-08 14:30:35.158 29276 29598 E AndroidRuntime: at com.facebook.react.bridge.JSBundleLoader$2.loadScript(Unknown Source:6) 04-08 14:30:35.158 29276 29598 E AndroidRuntime: at com.facebook.react.bridge.CatalystInstanceImpl.runJSBundle(Unknown Source:18) 04-08 14:30:35.158 29276 29598 E AndroidRuntime: at com.facebook.react.s.a(Unknown Source:154) 04-08 14:30:35.158 29276 29598 E AndroidRuntime: at com.facebook.react.s.a(Unknown Source:0) 04-08 14:30:35.158 29276 29598 E AndroidRuntime: at com.facebook.react.s$e.run(Unknown Source:68) 04-08 14:30:35.158 29276 29598 E AndroidRuntime: at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:764)

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baronchngcommented, Jun 24, 2020

Hey @axelmarciano, I just recently faced and solved this issue. From your code, I think it’s better you do await Updates.reloadAsync(); so that you have control of what happens when the Promise is resolved. I don’t know where you use the hook but i will just make assumptions.

Most importantly, you shouldn’t run any code after Updates.reloadAsync() such as setState() despite the documentation said it’s not recommended when actually it seems like we cannot. Refer to Updates.reloadAsync() section in Expo Updates Doc.

Another thing to watch out is if reloadAsync() is used in App() component where normally there are a few useEffect() around, ensure that no other useEffect() will actually do something after you call reloadAsync().

What happened to me was

try {
  ... check for updates and fetch

  await Updates.reloadAsync(); <---- we shouldn't do anything after this. 
}
catch (error) {
}
finally {
  setState(); <---- this happens right after the reloadAsync() above and crashes the Android app
}

So I changed to something like

try {
  const update = await Updates.checkForUpdateAsync();
  if (update.isAvailable) {
    await Updates.reloadAsync(); 

    // don't do anything
  } else {
    setState(); <---- since the reload above will make update.isAvailable to false, this will run
  }
}
catch (error) {
}

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changLiuUNSWcommented, Apr 14, 2020

Have the same issue. reloadAsync make app crash

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