SDK 36: Attempting to call JS function on a bad application bundle

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After upgrading to SDK 36 (and upgrading expo-cli to 3.11.1), we’re unable to successfully launch our standalone Android builds. We receive the following error in the system stack trace:

Expo encountered a fatal error: Attempting to call JS function on a bad application bundle: RCTDeviceEventEmitter.emit()...

We’ve tried rebuilding multiple times. All builds result in the same crash on startup. Our test device is a Google Pixel 3a. The app runs as expected within the Expo Client.

This is the Android build number: 5a5f4406-ae3a-48cb-8e3e-160b82ac0c39

This problem has been reported for past SDK versions. Example, example, but not yet for SDK 36 to my knowledge.

Any other info we can provide to help diagnose?

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This has been solved, but we’re unsure what the specific culprit was. We ran npm outdated and updated many of our old packages. Re-built and things worked as expected.

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Perhaps npm didn’t update something properly when you upgraded. Glad got got it sorted out.

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