expo run:android is stuck at blank white screen - react-native

Question

As seen in the above image, after successfully building for android, the standalone app is installed on the device but when opened, before showing the Splash screen, the blank white screen appears.
This is my App.js code
import React, { useState, useEffect, useRef } from "react";
import { NavigationContainer } from "#react-navigation/native";
import StackNavigator from "./StackNavigator";
import { AuthProvider } from "./hooks/useAuth";
import { ActivityIndicator, LogBox, View } from "react-native";
import { Asset } from "expo-asset";
import {
Roboto_100Thin,
Roboto_100Thin_Italic,
Roboto_300Light,
Roboto_300Light_Italic,
useFonts,
} from "#expo-google-fonts/roboto";
import AppLoading from "expo-app-loading";
import * as Font from "expo-font";
import * as encoding from "text-encoding";
LogBox.ignoreAllLogs();
function cacheImages(images) {
return images.map((image) => {
if (typeof image === "string") {
return Image.prefetch(image);
} else {
return Asset.fromModule(image).downloadAsync();
}
});
}
function cacheFonts(fonts) {
return fonts.map((font) => Font.loadAsync(font));
}
export default function App() {
const [ready, setReady] = useState(true);
let [fontsLoaded] = useFonts({
"Roboto-Thin": Roboto_100Thin,
Roboto_100Thin_Italic,
"Roboto-Light": Roboto_300Light,
Roboto_300Light_Italic,
});
async function _loadAssetsAsync() {
const imageAssets = await cacheImages([
require("./ASSETS/Loading_Black.gif"),
require("./ASSETS/icons/like.png"),
require("./ASSETS/icons/like-red.png"),
require("./ASSETS/icons/comment.png"),
require("./ASSETS/icons/share.png"),
require("./ASSETS/CHAT_BGRD-02.jpeg"),
]);
await Promise.all([...imageAssets, fontsLoaded]);
}
return ready && fontsLoaded ? (
<NavigationContainer>
<AuthProvider>
<StackNavigator />
</AuthProvider>
</NavigationContainer>
) : (
<AppLoading
startAsync={_loadAssetsAsync}
onFinish={() => setReady(true)}
onError={(e) => {
console.log(e);
}}
/>
);
}
The app is perfectly running on development mode, production mode, and even tried using
expo start --no-dev --minify
All these are perfectly working fine. But if I try to run the app in standalone mode, this is what's the output is. Appreciate your help :)

Answer 1

I had this happen, I updated android studio, updated android studio's sdk tools: Android emulator, hypervisor, platform tools, etc.
Then I re-made the devices in the Virtual Device Manager and then re-ran "expo start --android" and it worked.