[Bug]: Expo 53: App Crashes immediately on open on Android

[LukakHR]

Mapbox Implementation

Mapbox

Mapbox Version

10.7.0 and 11.0.0

React Native Version

0.79.2

Platform

Android

@rnmapbox/maps version

10.1.38

Standalone component to reproduce

import React from 'react';
import {
  MapView,
  ShapeSource,
  LineLayer,
  Camera,
} from '@rnmapbox/maps';

const aLine = {
  type: 'LineString',
  coordinates: [
    [-74.00597, 40.71427],
    [-74.00697, 40.71527],
  ],
};

class BugReportExample extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <MapView style={{flex: 1}}>
        <Camera centerCoordinate={[-74.00597, 40.71427]} zoomLevel={14} />
        <ShapeSource id="idStreetLayer" shape={aLine}>
          <LineLayer id="idStreetLayer" />
        </ShapeSource>
      </MapView>
    );
  }
}

Observed behavior and steps to reproduce

The app crashes on open after installing Expo 52 and doing npx expo prebuild --clean. I tried upgrading to Expo 53, tried both version 10.x.x and 11.x.x of mapbox and tried the patch to fix the issue but nothing helped. I am attaching a log report from the emulator after running: adb logcat | grep -E "(mapbox-common|SIGSEGV)"

t.log

Expected behavior

No response

Notes / preliminary analysis

No response

Additional links and references

No response

[LukakHR]

I've tried to install a clean project and it's still not working.

Steps to reproduce
Create new project:
npx create-expo-app@latest

Add @rnmapbox/maps:
npx expo install @rnmapbox/maps

Add config to app.json in plugins array:
[ "@rnmapbox/maps", { "RNMapboxMapsDownloadToken": "sk....." } ]

Run expo prebuild:
npx expo prebuild --platform android

Run app for android:
npx expo run:android

The app builds and installs properly but crashes immediately on open. I tried to find some errors in logcat and got these:

05-16 11:49:09.770 4171 4171 I MapboxInitializer: MapboxMapsInitializer create() is called 05-16 11:49:09.770 4171 4171 I MapboxInitializer: MapboxInitializer started MapboxMapsInitializerImpl initialization, attempt 1 05-16 11:49:09.806 4171 4171 F libc : Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 2 (SEGV_ACCERR), fault addr 0x755d1ed52280 in tid 4171 (new_project.project), pid 4171 (new_project.project) 05-16 11:49:09.836 4189 4189 E crash_dump64: failed to get the guest state header for thread 4171: Bad address

Removing mapbox makes the project run perfectly well

[tomislavkrnic]

Same here

[konstmar-ion]

Same here. Started to getting this crash after i've updated my Samsung S23 to One UI 7.0 (Android 15).

Expo: 52
@rnmapbox/maps: 10.1.33
Android: 15

UPD: does not crash if i use Mapbox SDK 11.12.1

[sanguu516]

Still having issues. Ios is working fine but Android is the problem. Has anyone fixed it?

[MariuzM]

@sanguu516 there is RC version released 1-2 days ago git that a try

[RyanTG]

This latest release, 10.1.39, does not fix the Android production crash. And, per the comment above about setting the Mapbox SDK version to (in expo) RNMapboxMapsVersion: "11.12.1" - I am still experiencing a crash in production.

[LukakHR]

I tried 10.1.39 and RNMapboxMapsVersion: "11.12.1", neither fixed the issue

[LukasB-DEV]

Any Update on this?

[tomislavkrnic]

Clean install, Expo + MapBox (latest 10.1.39) doesn't work on Android. App crashes on open

[MariuzM]

Strange for me it works ios and android tried multiple times clean instal no problem

[LukasB-DEV]

Strange for me it works ios and android tried multiple times clean instal no problem

What Version are you using?

[tomislavkrnic]

Strange for me it works ios and android tried multiple times clean instal no problem

thats strange. Can you give more information so I can understand what the difference is? I've tried it on multiple devices, my colleague's too...Android always crashes.

[MariuzM]

I only tried on the virtual devices not real ones,

maybe this help

 "dependencies": {
    "@gorhom/bottom-sheet": "^5.1.5",
    "@rnmapbox/maps": "^10.1.39",
    "@turf/helpers": "^7.2.0",
    "axios": "^1.9.0",
    "expo": "~53.0.9",
    "expo-build-properties": "~0.14.6",
    "expo-camera": "^16.1.6",
    "expo-constants": "^17.1.6",
    "expo-device": "^7.1.4",
    "expo-font": "^13.3.1",
    "expo-image": "^2.1.7",
    "expo-linking": "^7.1.5",
    "expo-location": "^18.1.5",
    "expo-notifications": "^0.31.2",
    "expo-router": "~5.0.7",
    "expo-secure-store": "^14.2.3",
    "expo-splash-screen": "~0.30.8",
    "expo-status-bar": "~2.2.3",
    "expo-system-ui": "^5.0.7",
    "nativewind": "^4.1.23",
    "react": "19.0.0",
    "react-native": "0.79.2",
    "react-native-gesture-handler": "~2.24.0",
    "react-native-maps": "1.20.1",
    "react-native-reanimated": "~3.17.4",
    "react-native-safe-area-context": "5.4.0",
    "react-native-screens": "~4.10.0",
    "react-native-svg": "15.11.2",
    "react-native-toast-message": "^2.3.0",
    "tailwindcss": "^3.4.15",
    "zod": "^3.25.42",
    "zustand": "^5.0.5"
  },

[tomislavkrnic]

You are talking about virtual device. So, I believe you have the same problem then.