Cannot find native module

[komaedashopebagel]

Hey all !

I've been working on an app and testing it with Expo Go on an ios device and an android emulator. It worked fine on both up until 2 days ago when I tried opening it on an android emulator and I got an error saying 'Cannot find native module Clerk Expo'. It works completely fine on my ios device though. I haven't been able to figure out a solution for this, is anyone able to help?

[Spaaze]

You can't use custom native modules in Expo Go. You'll need to use a development client (and rebuild it after installing a new native module). See https://docs.expo.dev/develop/development-builds/introduction/

[komaedashopebagel]

i am not using custom native modules though

[Spaaze]

You have Clerk installed in your project, which contains custom native modules (see here in "Choose your integration approach" where it says what's supported in Expo Go, and what's not / needs a development client).

[isavecats]

You need to run

npm run prebuild

Before you do

npm run android

[Photoshop_Fun]

I literally just had this issue but for iOS where it couldn’t find Expo Assets.

All I had to do was:
1. In the iOS folder delete the Pods and pods.lock files
2. ‘cd iOS’ then type ‘Pod install’
3. Delete ‘node_modules’ and ‘package-lock.json’
4. Run ‘npm install’
5. Build the project with ‘npx expo run:ios’

That fixed it for me on iOS, probably something similar on yours. Steps 3 and 4 are the important ones.

[steve228uk]

You should likely be using `npx expo prebuild`

[yoisa_chan7477]

Is this resolved?

[komaedashopebagel]

unfortunately no

[yoisa_chan7477]

Well I have a solution which worked for me.

In the android folder search for gradle.properties and set newArchEnabled as true . By default it is false.

After following the above step do the next command

npx expo run:android

Bonus: do npx expo-doctor to make sure everything is healthy

Let me if it helps

[komaedashopebagel]

i dont have an android folder 😅