This issue should be reposted to the repository library. The expo team does not accompany it and therefore by posting it here, the author of this library will not know about the problem

сс @zoontek

Thanks @peterlazar1993, the reproduction repository is perfect. The issue seems to occur only with expo-dev-client and is not related to react-native-bootplash directly. I will investigate to check what could create it, but I think it's probably somewhere there.

@teivienn we are working together with the expo lately, solving this is important for them too as the splash screen implementation of Expo is about to evolve.

@peterlazar1993 Found it, we have to comment / disable this line.

I started working on reading the app config from anywhere in expo modules, maybe we can read it in the expo-dev-launcher package, check if the splash option is present or not (or if it's using the legacy config) and disable the dev launcher splash screen in such cases? (ping @alanjhughes)

Hi there, I am experiencing (I think) the same or similar error.

If I run the following example either from Expo Go or from a custom client in development mode, the SplashScreen disappears after 5 seconds (this is the test value set in the setTimeout) which is expected.

However, if I create a build with EAS, this SplashScreen timeout is not respected on Android and disappears automatically, on iOS, it works perfectly.

import * as SplashScreen from 'expo-splash-screen';
import { StatusBar } from 'expo-status-bar';
import { useEffect } from 'react';
import { StyleSheet, Text, View } from 'react-native';

const start_time = Date.now();
// Keep the splash screen visible while we fetch resources
SplashScreen.preventAutoHideAsync();

export default function App() {
  useEffect(() => {
    // Wait 5 seconds to remove the splash screen
    new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 5 * 1000)).then(() => {
      console.log(
        `👌 Application loading is completed in ${Date.now() - start_time}ms`,
      );
      SplashScreen.hideAsync();
    });
  }, []);
  return (
    <View style={styles.container}>
      <Text>Open up App.js to start working on your app!</Text>
      <StatusBar style="auto" />
    </View>
  );
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    backgroundColor: '#fff',
    alignItems: 'center',
    justifyContent: 'center',
  },
});

(just in case) I leave the package.json:

{
  "name": "splashscreenissue",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "main": "expo/AppEntry.js",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "expo start",
    "android": "expo start --android",
    "ios": "expo start --ios",
    "web": "expo start --web"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "expo": "~51.0.22",
    "expo-splash-screen": "~0.27.5",
    "expo-status-bar": "~1.12.1",
    "react": "18.2.0",
    "react-native": "0.74.3"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@babel/core": "^7.20.0"
  },
  "private": true
}

@outaTiME The issue reported here is specific to react-native-bootsplash not expo-splash-screen
It would be best to create another issue.

Also the issue reported here is the inverse of what you're experiencing. SplashScreen is removed automatically in custom dev client builds, but works perfectly in release builds.

Understood @peterlazar1993, I thought that maybe because of the comment made by @zoontek this could be related at some point.

In case you are interested I created a new issue here: #30643