Expo 40 @RN/AsyncStorage: NativeModule: AsyncStorage is null

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#1

Please provide the following:

  1. SDK Version: 40
  2. Platforms(Android/iOS/web/all): Android/iOS

I have just upgraded my SDK from 39 to 40 by following to instructions from announcement blog by running the expo upgrade

The upgrade went well. But now when I start the app with expo start (running in physical device iOS 13, with latest Expo Client downloaded from app store), I get the exception screen:

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This occurred immediately after upgrading. It was working fine with SDK 39.
It is worth noting that previously I was using @react-native-community/async-storage (which is also failing with same error after upgrade). Then I headed to the expo async-storage docs page where is now recommended to use @react-native-async-storage/async-storage

expo install @react-native-async-storage/async-storage

This is also failing

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#2

I am in the exact same situation, help needed!

#3

Similar issue. I tried clearing the cache and reinstalling packages.

#4

I had the same problem with sentry-expo but I finally found the cause of this!

The problem was my metro.config.js. Be sure to follow instructions here: Customizing Metro - Expo Documentation

I had a custom resolver.sourceExts, without extending ...defaultConfig.resolver.sourceExts so *.expo.js files were not resolved.

Hope this helps, good luck!