Ignite: Android Hermes libjscexecutor.so

[cdanwards]

Describe the bug

As the title says, I'm using a build variant called development, which uses our release signing config and generally replicates a release build.

When I build the app locally in debug mode, it works fine. When I build the development build the app crashes immediately, and in Android Studio I see:

--------- beginning of crash
E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.appname.development, PID: 4513
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: couldn't find DSO to load: libjscexecutor.so
SoSource 0: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /data/app/~~yknNsxEbOR9vWgYxlcKx6g==/com.appname.development-uGOd6eC09Qm6p_dL_1XTtQ==/lib/arm64 flags = 0]
SoSource 1: com.facebook.soloader.DirectApkSoSource[root = /data/app/~~yknNsxEbOR9vWgYxlcKx6g==/com.appname.development-uGOd6eC09Qm6p_dL_1XTtQ==/base.apk!/lib/arm64-v8a]
SoSource 2: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /system/lib64 flags = 2]
SoSource 3: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /vendor/lib64 flags = 2]
Native lib dir: /data/app/~~yknNsxEbOR9vWgYxlcKx6g==/com.appname.development-uGOd6eC09Qm6p_dL_1XTtQ==/lib/arm64
result: 0
at com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader.doLoadLibraryBySoName(SoLoader.java:1098)
at com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader.loadLibraryBySoNameImpl(SoLoader.java:914)
at com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader.loadLibraryBySoName(SoLoader.java:826)
at com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader.loadLibrary(SoLoader.java:773)
at com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader.loadLibrary(SoLoader.java:743)
at com.facebook.react.jscexecutor.JSCExecutor.loadLibrary(JSCExecutor.java:24)
at com.facebook.react.jscexecutor.JSCExecutor.(JSCExecutor.java:20)
at com.facebook.react.jscexecutor.JSCExecutor.loadLibrary(Unknown Source:0)
at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManagerBuilder.getDefaultJSExecutorFactory(ReactInstanceManagerBuilder.java:351)
at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManagerBuilder.build(ReactInstanceManagerBuilder.java:318)
at com.facebook.react.ReactNativeHost.createReactInstanceManager(ReactNativeHost.java:95)
at expo.modules.ReactNativeHostWrapperBase.createReactInstanceManager(ReactNativeHostWrapperBase.kt:33)
at com.facebook.react.ReactNativeHost.getReactInstanceManager(ReactNativeHost.java:42)
at com.appname.MainApplication.onCreate(MainApplication.java:66)
at android.app.Instrumentation.callApplicationOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1211)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:6725)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:247)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2053)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:201)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:288)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7839)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:548)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1003)

Ignite version

7.15.0

Additional info

This ONLY happens when using Hermes, and only happened after I upgraded to RN 0.68.2 (from 0.66.3 I think, where it worked fine).

Relevant parts of build.gradle:

// React native config setup
project.ext.envConfigFiles = [
    debug: ".env.development",
    development: ".env.development",
    qa: ".env.qa",
    release: ".env.production",
]

// later...

 buildTypes {
        debug {
            signingConfig signingConfigs.debug
            applicationIdSuffix ".development"
        }
    
        development {
            signingConfig signingConfigs.debug
            applicationIdSuffix ".development"
            matchingFallbacks = ['release']
            minifyEnabled enableProguardInReleaseBuilds
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile("proguard-android.txt"), "proguard-rules.pro"
        }
        
        qa {
            signingConfig signingConfigs.release
            applicationIdSuffix ".qa"
            matchingFallbacks = ['release']
            minifyEnabled enableProguardInReleaseBuilds
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile("proguard-android.txt"), "proguard-rules.pro"
        }
        
        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"
        }
    }

    // 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
            // https://developer.android.com/studio/build/configure-apk-splits.html
            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)

            }
        }
    }

[cdanwards]

Duplicate of Ignite issue here: infinitered/ignite#2125