Android build error Expo 51 - `Plugin ... was not found in any of the following sources`

[robwalkerco]

Describe what happened After upgrading to Expo 51, it's not possible to build the Android app. It appears this may be related to the version of Gradle being updated to 8.6

Steps to reproduce the issue:

• Upgrade an app that uses expo-datadog from Expo 50 to Expo 51
• Build the Android app
• Get build error (below)

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '<REDACTED>/android/app/build.gradle' line: 2

* What went wrong:
Plugin [id: 'com.datadoghq.dd-sdk-android-gradle-plugin', version: '1.+'] was not found in any of the following sources:

- Gradle Core Plugins (plugin is not in 'org.gradle' namespace)
- Included Builds (None of the included builds contain this plugin)
- Plugin Repositories (could not resolve plugin artifact 'com.datadoghq.dd-sdk-android-gradle-plugin:com.datadoghq.dd-sdk-android-gradle-plugin.gradle.plugin:1.+')
  Searched in the following repositories:
    Gradle Central Plugin Repository

I've resolved this issue by setting an explicit datadogGradlePluginVersion version of 1.13.0, which allows the build to complete, but it would be great if that was not required.

Example plugin config to get the build working again

expo: {
  ...
  plugins: [
    ...
    [
        'expo-datadog',
        {
          errorTracking: {
            datadogGradlePluginVersion: '1.13.0',
          },
        },
      ],
  ]
}

Describe what you expected: The build should complete

Additional context

"@datadog/mobile-react-native": "^2.3.2",
"@datadog/mobile-react-navigation": "^2.3.2",
"expo": "^51.0.1",
"expo-datadog": "^50.2.0",
"react-native": "0.74.1",
...

[marco-saia-datadog]

Hey @robwalkerco,

The update to Expo 51 is in our roadmap, and we will grant support soon with datadog-expo@51.0.0.

I will keep you posted here as soon as we have an open PR.

Thank you for your valuable feedback!

[raghavsethi]

Subscribing - we'd like to switch our company to Datadog and this is blocking us at the moment.

[panasenco]

I work at a company that's a new Datadog customer and we are also blocked by this. Is there a timeline that you can share for supporting expo 51?

[marcato15]

Is it possible for Datadog to tweak their build process to tie the release of their support for new Expo versions closer to the release date? The beta was announced April 24 and Expo 51 was released May 7. Day 1 availability may not be possible, but waiting over a month for an update to a paid service is a bit tough. We have been needing some of the features available in Expo 51 and so it's tough to not be able to use those because we have to wait on the datadog dependency to upgrade.

[marco-saia-datadog]

@marcato15

The delay was mainly caused by the fact that one of our engineers, responsible for the Expo updates, recently left the company. There has been a period of knowledge transfer and onboarding for the new engineer, and an unusual amount of critical issues to solve in our React Native SDK.

Future updates will be quicker, we apologise for the inconvenience 🙏

[marco-saia-datadog]

@robwalkerco @raghavsethi @panasenco @marcato15

Sorry for the long wait!

We have released expo-datadog@51.0.0, which solves the build issue on Android and grants support for Expo 51.

[marcato15]

@robwalkerco @raghavsethi @panasenco @marcato15

Sorry for the long wait!

We have released expo-datadog@51.0.0, which solves the build issue on Android and grants support for Expo 51.

Thank you for the explanation. That is very helpful.

[raghavsethi]

Thank you, much appreciated!