PackageList.java generated by RN autolinking imported expo.core.ExpoModulesPackage
(old SDK <48 name). Root cause: RN CLI couldn't read expo's react-native.config.js
through the pnpm symlink (it lives at .pnpm/expo@52..../expo/react-native.config.js),
so it fell back to deriving the import path from expo's Android gradle namespace
("expo.core") + assumed class name (ExpoModulesPackage), producing a path that
doesn't exist (the actual class lives at expo.modules.ExpoModulesPackage).
Added "expo" to .npmrc public-hoist-pattern so RN's autolinking can resolve
expo's react-native.config.js via the standard node_modules lookup. That config
explicitly sets packageImportPath to the correct expo.modules.ExpoModulesPackage.
Also corrected @expo/metro-runtime from 55.0.11 (added blindly earlier) to ~4.0.1
which is the SDK-52-aligned version.
pnpm's default strict isolation hides @babel/runtime/helpers/* and other
transitive deps from Metro, which expects flat node_modules layout.
Each missing dep was a separate failed EAS build (metro-runtime,
@babel/runtime, ...) — added .npmrc with public-hoist-pattern entries
that catch the common RN/Expo families so we stop whack-a-moling them.
Also kept @babel/runtime as direct dep of @chat-app/mobile for safety.
expo-router@4 imports @expo/metro-runtime as the very first thing in its
entry-classic.js so Fast Refresh works; bundler errored without it.
Also dropped expo-router/babel from babel.config.js — its functionality
moved into babel-preset-expo in SDK 50.
Phase 0 installed expo-application/expo-image-picker/expo-dev-client at
^55.x assuming the major version matched the SDK number. It doesn't —
each expo-* package has its own major. Misaligned versions pulled in
expo-modules-core@2.2.3 which expects an API that SDK 52's gradle plugin
host doesn't provide, breaking the Gradle build with
'expo-module-gradle-plugin not found'.
`expo install --fix` aligned everything to SDK 52 baselines:
expo-application 55.0.15 -> ~6.0.2
expo-dev-client 55.0.33 -> ~5.0.20
expo-image-picker 55.0.20 -> ~16.0.6
expo-sqlite 15.0.6 -> ~15.1.4
react-native 0.76.0 -> 0.76.9
+ RN companion libs (gesture-handler, screens, async-storage)
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