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Expo Android error message "Something went wrong 38.0.0 is not a valid SDK version"

I used Expo and all was fine with:

"expo": "^37.0.0",
"react-native": "https://github.com/expo/react-native/archive/sdk-37.0.0.tar.gz",

Now I upgraded to the latest version via:

"expo": "^38.0.0",
"react-native": "https://github.com/expo/react-native/archive/sdk-38.0.0.tar.gz",

This worked on the web version. But not on my Android device. Here I now get the following message:

Something went wrong 38.0.0 is not a valid SDK version

How to solve this?

Solution

  • The issue is an outdated version of the Expo Android app.

    So if you probably have installed 2.15.1. That's too old for sdk-38.0.0.

    Going to the Play Store tells that 2.16.1 is the latest version.

    Install this and deploy again to your Android device and it works.