Builds locally but fails on EAS due to plugins in app.json

Summary

When adding plugins to app.json it builds fine locally but fails when running eas build.

We have this as a plugin in app.json: "plugins": ["./android-manifest.plugin.js"] This is a simple file where we edit the android-manifest (which is not the problem). Then we prebuild locally to test and everything works fine. But when we run: expo build --platform android it fails with this error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/expo/workingdir/build/apps/expo/android/gradlew'

We didn’t know why it failed but before we tried to upgrade to SDK 46 and for that we needed to specify the kotlin version in plugins. Whenever we remove the plugins out of app.json it works like a charm but with plugins it fails.

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

managed

What platform(s) does this occur on?

Android

SDK Version (managed workflow only)

45

Environment

expo-env-info 1.0.5 environment info: System: OS: macOS 12.4 Shell: 5.8.1 - /bin/zsh Binaries: Node: 16.16.0 - /usr/local/bin/node Yarn: 1.22.17 - /opt/homebrew/bin/yarn npm: 8.11.0 - /usr/local/bin/npm Watchman: 2022.07.04.00 - /opt/homebrew/bin/watchman Managers: CocoaPods: 1.11.3 - /opt/homebrew/bin/pod SDKs: iOS SDK: Platforms: DriverKit 21.4, iOS 15.5, macOS 12.3, tvOS 15.4, watchOS 8.5 Android SDK: API Levels: 30, 31, 32 Build Tools: 30.0.2, 30.0.3, 31.0.0, 32.0.0 System Images: android-32 | Google APIs ARM 64 v8a IDEs: Android Studio: 2021.1 AI-211.7628.21.2111.8092744 Xcode: 13.4.1/13F100 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild npmGlobalPackages: expo-cli: 5.5.1 Expo Workflow: bare

Reproducible demo

1. Make an expo project
2. Add plugins to your app.json:

 "plugins": [
      [
        "expo-build-properties",
        {
          "android": {
            "kotlinVersion": "1.6.10"
          }
        }
   ]
]

1. Run expo prebuild
2. Run expo build --platform android