React Native app crashes on first launch after update to Android 13 (tools v33)

After I upgraded my react native app from 31 to 33 sdk version, my app started to crash after first launch.

No errors are shown

On the second launch everything works fine.

I assume that problem is in the storage (maybe async) because if (after second succesefull launch) I clear app’s cache and storage – app will crash again on the first launch.

React native version: 0.69.7

Here is my build.gradle files

build.gradle:

import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.condition.Os

// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.

buildscript {
ext.kotlin_version = '1.6.10'
ext {
buildToolsVersion = "33.0.0"
minSdkVersion = 21
compileSdkVersion = 33
targetSdkVersion = 33

        // We use NDK 23 which has both M1 support and is the side-by-side NDK version from AGP.
        ndkVersion = "23.1.7779620"
    }
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath('com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.1')
        classpath("com.facebook.react:react-native-gradle-plugin")
        classpath("de.undercouch:gradle-download-task:5.0.1")
        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
        classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.15'
        // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
        // in the individual module build.gradle files
    }

}

allprojects {
repositories {
maven {
// All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
url("$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android")
}
maven {
// Android JSC is installed from npm
url("$rootDir/../node_modules/jsc-android/dist")
}
mavenCentral {
// We don't want to fetch react-native from Maven Central as there are
// older versions over there.
content {
excludeGroup "com.facebook.react"
}
}
google()
maven { url 'https://www.jitpack.io' }
}
}

app/build.gradle:

apply plugin: "com.google.gms.google-services"

apply plugin: "kotlin-android"

import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.condition.Os
import com.android.build.OutputFile

/**

* The react.gradle file registers a task for each build variant (e.g. bundleDebugJsAndAssets
* and bundleReleaseJsAndAssets).
* These basically call `react-native bundle` with the correct arguments during the Android build
* cycle. By default, bundleDebugJsAndAssets is skipped, as in debug/dev mode we prefer to load the
* bundle directly from the development server. Below you can see all the possible configurations
* and their defaults. If you decide to add a configuration block, make sure to add it before the
* `apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native/react.gradle"` line.
* 
* project.ext.react = [
* // the name of the generated asset file containing your JS bundle
* bundleAssetName: "index.android.bundle",
* 
* // the entry file for bundle generation. If none specified and
* // "index.android.js" exists, it will be used. Otherwise "index.js" is
* // default. Can be overridden with ENTRY_FILE environment variable.
* entryFile: "index.android.js",
* 
* // https://reactnative.dev/docs/performance#enable-the-ram-format
* bundleCommand: "ram-bundle",
* 
* // whether to bundle JS and assets in debug mode
* bundleInDebug: false,
* 
* // whether to bundle JS and assets in release mode
* bundleInRelease: true,
* 
* // whether to bundle JS and assets in another build variant (if configured).
* // See http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-guide#TOC-Build-Variants
* // The configuration property can be in the following formats
* //         'bundleIn${productFlavor}${buildType}'
* //         'bundleIn${buildType}'
* // bundleInFreeDebug: true,
* // bundleInPaidRelease: true,
* // bundleInBeta: true,
* 
* // whether to disable dev mode in custom build variants (by default only disabled in release)
* // for example: to disable dev mode in the staging build type (if configured)
* devDisabledInStaging: true,
* // The configuration property can be in the following formats
* //         'devDisabledIn${productFlavor}${buildType}'
* //         'devDisabledIn${buildType}'
* 
* // the root of your project, i.e. where "package.json" lives
* root: "../../",
* 
* // where to put the JS bundle asset in debug mode
* jsBundleDirDebug: "$buildDir/intermediates/assets/debug",
* 
* // where to put the JS bundle asset in release mode
* jsBundleDirRelease: "$buildDir/intermediates/assets/release",
* 
* // where to put drawable resources / React Native assets, e.g. the ones you use via
* // require('./image.png')), in debug mode
* resourcesDirDebug: "$buildDir/intermediates/res/merged/debug",
* 
* // where to put drawable resources / React Native assets, e.g. the ones you use via
* // require('./image.png')), in release mode
* resourcesDirRelease: "$buildDir/intermediates/res/merged/release",
* 
* // by default the gradle tasks are skipped if none of the JS files or assets change; this means
* // that we don't look at files in android/ or ios/ to determine whether the tasks are up to
* // date; if you have any other folders that you want to ignore for performance reasons (gradle
* // indexes the entire tree), add them here. Alternatively, if you have JS files in android/
* // for example, you might want to remove it from here.
* inputExcludes: ["android/**", "ios/**"],
* 
* // override which node gets called and with what additional arguments
* nodeExecutableAndArgs: ["node"],
* 
* // supply additional arguments to the packager
* extraPackagerArgs: []
* ]
  */

project.ext.react = [
enableHermes: true,  // clean and rebuild if changing
]

apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native/react.gradle"
apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native-vector-icons/fonts.gradle"

/**

* Set this to true to create two separate APKs instead of one:
* - An APK that only works on ARM devices
* - An APK that only works on x86 devices
* The advantage is the size of the APK is reduced by about 4MB.
* Upload all the APKs to the Play Store and people will download
* the correct one based on the CPU architecture of their device.
  */
  def enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture = false

/**

* Run Proguard to shrink the Java bytecode in release builds.
  */
  def enableProguardInReleaseBuilds = false

/**

* The preferred build flavor of JavaScriptCore.
* 
* For example, to use the international variant, you can use:
* `def jscFlavor = 'org.webkit:android-jsc-intl:+'`
* 
* The international variant includes ICU i18n library and necessary data
* allowing to use e.g. `Date.toLocaleString` and `String.localeCompare` that
* give correct results when using with locales other than en-US.  Note that
* this variant is about 6MiB larger per architecture than default.
  */
  def jscFlavor = 'org.webkit:android-jsc:+'

/**

* Whether to enable the Hermes VM.
* 
* This should be set on project.ext.react and that value will be read here. If it is not set
* on project.ext.react, JavaScript will not be compiled to Hermes Bytecode
* and the benefits of using Hermes will therefore be sharply reduced.
  */
  def enableHermes = project.ext.react.get("enableHermes", false);

/**

* Architectures to build native code for.
  */
  def reactNativeArchitectures() {
  def value = project.getProperties().get("reactNativeArchitectures")
  return value ? value.split(",") : ["armeabi-v7a", "x86", "x86_64", "arm64-v8a"]
  }

android {
ndkVersion rootProject.ext.ndkVersion

    compileSdkVersion rootProject.ext.compileSdkVersion
    
    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.devote"
        minSdkVersion rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
        targetSdkVersion rootProject.ext.targetSdkVersion
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
        buildConfigField "boolean", "IS_NEW_ARCHITECTURE_ENABLED", isNewArchitectureEnabled().toString()
        externalNativeBuild {
            cmake {
                arguments "-DBUILD_TESTS=FALSE"
                targets "devote"
            }
        }
    
        if (isNewArchitectureEnabled()) {
            // We configure the NDK build only if you decide to opt-in for the New Architecture.
            externalNativeBuild {
                ndkBuild {
                    arguments "APP_PLATFORM=android-21",
                        "APP_STL=c++_shared",
                        "NDK_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION=clang",
                        "GENERATED_SRC_DIR=$buildDir/generated/source",
                        "PROJECT_BUILD_DIR=$buildDir",
                        "REACT_ANDROID_DIR=$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/ReactAndroid",
                        "REACT_ANDROID_BUILD_DIR=$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/ReactAndroid/build",
                        "NODE_MODULES_DIR=$rootDir/../node_modules"
                    cFlags "-Wall", "-Werror", "-fexceptions", "-frtti", "-DWITH_INSPECTOR=1"
                    cppFlags "-std=c++17"
                    // Make sure this target name is the same you specify inside the
                    // src/main/jni/Android.mk file for the `LOCAL_MODULE` variable.
                    targets "devote_appmodules"
                }
            }
            if (!enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture) {
                ndk {
                    abiFilters (*reactNativeArchitectures())
                }
            }
        }
    }
    
    if (isNewArchitectureEnabled()) {
        // We configure the NDK build only if you decide to opt-in for the New Architecture.
        externalNativeBuild {
            ndkBuild {
                path "$projectDir/src/main/jni/Android.mk"
            }
        }
        def reactAndroidProjectDir = project(':ReactAndroid').projectDir
        def packageReactNdkDebugLibs = tasks.register("packageReactNdkDebugLibs", Copy) {
            dependsOn(":ReactAndroid:packageReactNdkDebugLibsForBuck")
            from("$reactAndroidProjectDir/src/main/jni/prebuilt/lib")
            into("$buildDir/react-ndk/exported")
        }
        def packageReactNdkReleaseLibs = tasks.register("packageReactNdkReleaseLibs", Copy) {
            dependsOn(":ReactAndroid:packageReactNdkReleaseLibsForBuck")
            from("$reactAndroidProjectDir/src/main/jni/prebuilt/lib")
            into("$buildDir/react-ndk/exported")
        }
        afterEvaluate {
            // If you wish to add a custom TurboModule or component locally,
            // you should uncomment this line.
            // preBuild.dependsOn("generateCodegenArtifactsFromSchema")
            preDebugBuild.dependsOn(packageReactNdkDebugLibs)
            preReleaseBuild.dependsOn(packageReactNdkReleaseLibs)
    
            // Due to a bug inside AGP, we have to explicitly set a dependency
            // between configureNdkBuild* tasks and the preBuild tasks.
            // This can be removed once this is solved: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/207403732
            configureNdkBuildRelease.dependsOn(preReleaseBuild)
            configureNdkBuildDebug.dependsOn(preDebugBuild)
            reactNativeArchitectures().each { architecture ->
                tasks.findByName("configureNdkBuildDebug[${architecture}]")?.configure {
                    dependsOn("preDebugBuild")
                }
                tasks.findByName("configureNdkBuildRelease[${architecture}]")?.configure {
                    dependsOn("preReleaseBuild")
                }
            }
        }
    }
    
    splits {
        abi {
            reset()
            enable enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture
            universalApk false  // If true, also generate a universal APK
            include (*reactNativeArchitectures())
        }
    }
    signingConfigs {
        debug {
            storeFile file('debug.keystore')
            storePassword 'android'
            keyAlias 'androiddebugkey'
            keyPassword 'android'
        }
        release {
              storeFile file('devout.keystore')
              storePassword 'Devoutkey'
              keyAlias 'devoutalias'
              keyPassword 'Devoutkey'
            }
    }
    buildTypes {
        debug {
            signingConfig signingConfigs.debug
        }
        release {
            // Caution! In production, you need to generate your own keystore file.
            // see https://reactnative.dev/docs/signed-apk-android.
            signingConfig signingConfigs.release
            minifyEnabled enableProguardInReleaseBuilds
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile("proguard-android.txt"), "proguard-rules.pro"
        }
    }
    
    externalNativeBuild {
        cmake {
            path file('src/main/cpp/vote-saver/CMakeLists.txt')
            version '3.18.1'
        }
    }
    
    // applicationVariants are e.g. debug, release
    applicationVariants.all { variant ->
        variant.outputs.each { output ->
            // For each separate APK per architecture, set a unique version code as described here:
            // https://developer.android.com/studio/build/configure-apk-splits.html
            // Example: versionCode 1 will generate 1001 for armeabi-v7a, 1002 for x86, etc.
            def versionCodes = ["armeabi-v7a": 1, "x86": 2, "arm64-v8a": 3, "x86_64": 4]
            def abi = output.getFilter(OutputFile.ABI)
            if (abi != null) {  // null for the universal-debug, universal-release variants
                output.versionCodeOverride =
                        defaultConfig.versionCode * 1000 + versionCodes.get(abi)
            }
    
        }
    }

}
dependencies {
implementation fileTree(dir: "libs", include: ["*.jar"])

    //noinspection GradleDynamicVersion
    implementation "com.facebook.react:react-native:+"  // From node_modules
    
    implementation platform('com.google.firebase:firebase-bom:31.2.2')
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics-ktx'
    implementation("com.michael-bull.kotlin-retry:kotlin-retry:1.0.9")
    
    implementation "androidx.swiperefreshlayout:swiperefreshlayout:1.0.0"
    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-android:1.3.9"
    
    implementation 'androidx.core:core-ktx:1.3.2'
    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:$kotlin_version"
    
    debugImplementation("com.facebook.flipper:flipper:${FLIPPER_VERSION}") {
        exclude group:'com.facebook.fbjni'
    }
    
    debugImplementation("com.facebook.flipper:flipper-network-plugin:${FLIPPER_VERSION}") {
        exclude group:'com.facebook.flipper'
        exclude group:'com.squareup.okhttp3', module:'okhttp'
    }
    
    debugImplementation("com.facebook.flipper:flipper-fresco-plugin:${FLIPPER_VERSION}") {
        exclude group:'com.facebook.flipper'
    }
    
    debugImplementation fileTree(dir: 'libs-debug', include: ['*.aar', '*.jar'], exclude: [])
    releaseImplementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.aar', '*.jar'], exclude: [])
    implementation "ee.nx-01.tonclient:ton-client-kotlin:0.0.54"
    
    if (enableHermes) {
        //noinspection GradleDynamicVersion
        implementation("com.facebook.react:hermes-engine:+") { // From node_modules
            exclude group:'com.facebook.fbjni'
        }
    } else {
        implementation jscFlavor
    }

}

if (isNewArchitectureEnabled()) {
// If new architecture is enabled, we let you build RN from source
// Otherwise we fallback to a prebuilt .aar bundled in the NPM package.
// This will be applied to all the imported transtitive dependency.
configurations.all {
resolutionStrategy.dependencySubstitution {
substitute(module("com.facebook.react:react-native"))
.using(project(":ReactAndroid"))
.because("On New Architecture we're building React Native from source")
substitute(module("com.facebook.react:hermes-engine"))
.using(project(":ReactAndroid:hermes-engine"))
.because("On New Architecture we're building Hermes from source")
}
}
}

// Run this once to be able to run the application with BUCK
// puts all compile dependencies into folder libs for BUCK to use
task copyDownloadableDepsToLibs(type: Copy) {
from configurations.implementation
into 'libs'
}

apply from: file("../../node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-android/native_modules.gradle"); applyNativeModulesAppBuildGradle(project)

def isNewArchitectureEnabled() {
// To opt-in for the New Architecture, you can either:
// - Set `newArchEnabled` to true inside the `gradle.properties` file
// - Invoke gradle with `-newArchEnabled=true`
// - Set an environment variable `ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_newArchEnabled=true`
return project.hasProperty("newArchEnabled") && project.newArchEnabled == "true"
}

gradle-wrapper.properties:

distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.5-bin.zip
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists

React-native info:

System:
OS: macOS 12.6.2
CPU: (8) arm64 Apple M1
Memory: 109.50 MB / 8.00 GB
Shell: 5.8.1 - /bin/zsh
Binaries:
Node: 18.12.1 - /usr/local/bin/node
Yarn: 1.22.19 - /opt/homebrew/bin/yarn
npm: 8.19.2 - /usr/local/bin/npm
Watchman: 2023.03.27.00 - /opt/homebrew/bin/watchman
Managers:
CocoaPods: Not Found
SDKs:
iOS SDK: Not Found
Android SDK:
API Levels: 31, 33
Build Tools: 29.0.2, 30.0.2, 30.0.3, 31.0.0, 33.0.0, 33.0.1, 33.0.2
System Images: android-31 | Intel x86 Atom_64, android-31 | Google APIs ARM 64 v8a, android-33 | Google APIs ARM 64 v8a
Android NDK: Not Found
IDEs:
Android Studio: 2022.1 AI-221.6008.13.2211.9619390
Xcode: /undefined - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
Languages:
Java: 11.0.17 - /usr/bin/javac
npmPackages:
@react-native-community/cli: Not Found
react: Not Found
react-native: Not Found
react-native-macos: Not Found
npmGlobalPackages:
*react-native*: Not Found

I tried:

• change gradle’s version (thought that building was not right)
• change react-native versions