Facing Java compatibility issues with Android, works fine in iOS

[Agnel1234]

On my Expo App, i am trying to incorporate this package to change the App Icon on runtime from the App Binary. It works perfectly fine in IOS, however for Android it is not working as expected coz of Java Compatible issue. Can you please help us here ?

[kouloughli-hemza]

Try my fork
https://www.npmjs.com/package/nixa-expo-dynamic-app-icon
it builds fine on Android

[Agnel1234]

@kouloughli-hemza Thanks for sharing the fork npm package for the above issue. It really helps to solve the App icon issue on both IOS and Android together with the single package.

However, whenever i tried to do setAppIcon("icon3"), it creates duplicate instance of App on Android platform, it works perfectly fine on IOS though.

[RawaMustafa]

there is any fix for duplicate app issue on android ..?

[kouloughli-hemza]

there is any fix for duplicate app issue on android ..?

Not yet, i have not tried to find solution

[kouloughli-hemza]

@RawaMustafa @Agnel1234

https://www.npmjs.com/package/nixa-expo-dynamic-app-icon

you can try the new version to fix issue of duplicate icon on android

[arindambiswas1]

@kouloughli-hemza still getting issue on Android when building Android dev client, ios works fine, here is the log

Execution failed for task ':nixa-expo-dynamic-app-icon:compileDebugKotlin'.
A failure occurred while executing org.jetbrains.kotlin.compilerRunner.GradleCompilerRunnerWithWorkers$GradleKotlinCompilerWorkAction
Compilation error. See log for more details

`

Task :nixa-expo-dynamic-app-icon:compileDebugKotlin FAILED
e: file:///C:node_modules/nixa-expo-dynamic-app-icon/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/dynamicappicon/ComponentUtils.kt:23:62 Unresolved reference: activityExists
e: file:///C:/node_modules/nixa-expo-dynamic-app-icon/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/dynamicappicon/ComponentUtils.kt:24:13 Unresolved reference: activityExists
e: file:///C:/node_modules/nixa-expo-dynamic-app-icon/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/dynamicappicon/ExpoDynamicAppIconModule.kt:80:23 Only safe (?.) or non-null asserted (!!.) calls are allowed on a nullable receiver of type Array<(out) ActivityInfo!>?
`

[ddeveloper2023]

@kouloughli-hemza Your library is causing build errors in Expo 52 —could you fix it?

[arindambiswas1]

@kouloughli-hemza Your library is causing build errors in Expo 52 —could you fix it?

hi, after some Googling, I came across a package called @mozzius/expo-dynamic-app-icon (https://github.com/mozzius/expo-dynamic-app-icon), which the Bluesky app (https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app) also uses. I tried it in my app, and it worked!
"expo": "~52.0.35", "@mozzius/expo-dynamic-app-icon": "^1.5.0" , "react-native": "0.76.7"

As of today the latest release of @mozzius/expo-dynamic-app-icon ^1.6.0 has some issues with config plugins so I used the 1.5.0 version

[kouloughli-hemza]

@kouloughli-hemza Your library is causing build errors in Expo 52 —could you fix it?

hi, after some Googling, I came across a package called @mozzius/expo-dynamic-app-icon (https://github.com/mozzius/expo-dynamic-app-icon), which the Bluesky app (https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app) also uses. I tried it in my app, and it worked! "expo": "~52.0.35", "@mozzius/expo-dynamic-app-icon": "^1.5.0" , "react-native": "0.76.7"

As of today the latest release of @mozzius/expo-dynamic-app-icon ^1.6.0 has some issues with config plugins so I used the 1.5.0 version

Does it fix the issue of icon duplication on android?

[kouloughli-hemza]

@kouloughli-hemza Your library is causing build errors in Expo 52 —could you fix it?

hi, after some Googling, I came across a package called @mozzius/expo-dynamic-app-icon (https://github.com/mozzius/expo-dynamic-app-icon), which the Bluesky app (https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app) also uses. I tried it in my app, and it worked! "expo": "~52.0.35", "@mozzius/expo-dynamic-app-icon": "^1.5.0" , "react-native": "0.76.7"

As of today the latest release of @mozzius/expo-dynamic-app-icon ^1.6.0 has some issues with config plugins so I used the 1.5.0 version

i see that it doesnt fix the issue :

if (isAndroid) {
const next =
sets.defaults.find(i => i.id === icon) ??
sets.core.find(i => i.id === icon)
Alert.alert(
next
? _(msgChange app icon to "${next.name}")
: _(msgChange app icon),
// to determine - can we stop this happening? -sfn
_(msgThe app will be restarted),
[
{
text: _(msgCancel),
style: 'cancel',
},
{
text: _(msgOK),
onPress: () => {
setCurrentAppIcon(setAppIcon(icon))
},
style: 'default',
},
],
)

see the code found on bluesky to handle android duplicate icon here , they restart the app. also changing app icon on Android breaks the aliases , so if you try to use share button for example app will crash .

[kouloughli-hemza]

@kouloughli-hemza Your library is causing build errors in Expo 52 —could you fix it?

sure i will try to do that.