Solving Android Resource Linking Errors on Lstart A Developer's Guide

Error Detail Info

To give some background: Our project is currently on react native 0.63.2 and previous compileSdkVersion was 30. We were successfully building android app till a few days back but suddenly it started to fail with the following error:

AAPT: error: resource android:attr/lStar not found

AAPT ERROR

After some searching online, we followed some solutions here: Resource linking fails on lStar

Force use this androidx-core version in your app module file build.gradle:

configurations.all {
  resolutionStrategy {
    force 'androidx.core:core:1.6.0'
    force 'androidx.core:core-ktx:1.6.0'
  }
}

We upgraded to compileSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion to 31, did some other related changes and were able to compile successfully. But the app is now crashing immediately on startup when I run it on Android 13 device.

Error Log Info

The following are the error logs from logcat:

2022-11-06 16:54:44.438 15842-15842/com.flyfinapp E/SoLoader: couldn't find DSO to load: libjscexecutor.so caused by: dlopen failed: library "libjsc.so" not found: needed by /data/app/~~xPxviTwL84s3LS8L8OTgAA==/com.flyfinapp-EZ0vekCsB5BzvVwFLbm-GQ==/lib/arm64/libjscexecutor.so in namespace classloader-namespace result: 0
2022-11-06 16:54:44.480 15842-15842/com.flyfinapp E/SoLoader: couldn't find DSO to load: libhermes-executor-debug.so caused by: dlopen failed: cannot locate symbol "_ZTVN6hermes2vm12CrashManagerE" referenced by "/data/app/~~xPxviTwL84s3LS8L8OTgAA==/com.flyfinapp-EZ0vekCsB5BzvVwFLbm-GQ==/lib/arm64/libhermes-executor-debug.so"... result: 0
2022-11-06 16:54:44.482 15842-15842/com.flyfinapp E/SoLoader: couldn't find DSO to load: libhermes-executor-release.so
        SoSource 0: com.facebook.soloader.ApkSoSource[root = /data/data/com.flyfinapp/lib-main flags = 1]
        SoSource 1: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /data/app/~~xPxviTwL84s3LS8L8OTgAA==/com.flyfinapp-EZ0vekCsB5BzvVwFLbm-GQ==/lib/arm64 flags = 0]
        SoSource 2: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /system/lib64 flags = 2]
        SoSource 3: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /vendor/lib64 flags = 2]
        Native lib dir: /data/app/~~xPxviTwL84s3LS8L8OTgAA==/com.flyfinapp-EZ0vekCsB5BzvVwFLbm-GQ==/lib/arm64
     result: 0
2022-11-06 16:54:44.483 15842-15842/com.flyfinapp E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    Process: com.flyfinapp, PID: 15842
    java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: couldn't find DSO to load: libhermes-executor-release.so
        SoSource 0: com.facebook.soloader.ApkSoSource[root = /data/data/com.flyfinapp/lib-main flags = 1]
        SoSource 1: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /data/app/~~xPxviTwL84s3LS8L8OTgAA==/com.flyfinapp-EZ0vekCsB5BzvVwFLbm-GQ==/lib/arm64 flags = 0]
        SoSource 2: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /system/lib64 flags = 2]
        SoSource 3: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /vendor/lib64 flags = 2]
        Native lib dir: /data/app/~~xPxviTwL84s3LS8L8OTgAA==/com.flyfinapp-EZ0vekCsB5BzvVwFLbm-GQ==/lib/arm64
     result: 0
        at com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader.doLoadLibraryBySoName(SoLoader.java:1127)
        at com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader.loadLibraryBySoNameImpl(SoLoader.java:943)
        at com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader.loadLibraryBySoName(SoLoader.java:855)
        at com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader.loadLibrary(SoLoader.java:802)
        at com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader.loadLibrary(SoLoader.java:772)
        at com.facebook.hermes.reactexecutor.HermesExecutor.loadLibrary(HermesExecutor.java:30)
        at com.facebook.hermes.reactexecutor.HermesExecutor.<clinit>(HermesExecutor.java:19)
        at com.facebook.hermes.reactexecutor.HermesExecutor.loadLibrary(HermesExecutor.java:23)
        at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManagerBuilder.getDefaultJSExecutorFactory(ReactInstanceManagerBuilder.java:369)
        at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManagerBuilder.build(ReactInstanceManagerBuilder.java:316)
        at com.facebook.react.ReactNativeHost.createReactInstanceManager(ReactNativeHost.java:94)
        at com.facebook.react.ReactNativeHost.getReactInstanceManager(ReactNativeHost.java:41)
        at com.flyfinapp.MainApplication.onCreate(MainApplication.java:77)
        at android.app.Instrumentation.callApplicationOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1266)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:6785)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.-$$Nest$mhandleBindApplication(Unknown Source:0)
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2134)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
        at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:201)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:288)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7898)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:548)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:936)
2022-11-06 16:54:44.483 15842-15842/com.flyfinapp E/WebEngage: App has crashed
    java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: couldn't find DSO to load: libhermes-executor-release.so
        SoSource 0: com.facebook.soloader.ApkSoSource[root = /data/data/com.flyfinapp/lib-main flags = 1]
        SoSource 1: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /data/app/~~xPxviTwL84s3LS8L8OTgAA==/com.flyfinapp-EZ0vekCsB5BzvVwFLbm-GQ==/lib/arm64 flags = 0]
        SoSource 2: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /system/lib64 flags = 2]
        SoSource 3: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /vendor/lib64 flags = 2]
        Native lib dir: /data/app/~~xPxviTwL84s3LS8L8OTgAA==/com.flyfinapp-EZ0vekCsB5BzvVwFLbm-GQ==/lib/arm64
     result: 0
2022-11-06 16:54:47.669 15942-15942/com.flyfinapp E/SoLoader: couldn't find DSO to load: libjscexecutor.so caused by: dlopen failed: library "libjsc.so" not found: needed by /data/app/~~xPxviTwL84s3LS8L8OTgAA==/com.flyfinapp-EZ0vekCsB5BzvVwFLbm-GQ==/lib/arm64/libjscexecutor.so in namespace classloader-namespace result: 0
2022-11-06 16:54:47.676 15942-15942/com.flyfinapp E/SoLoader: couldn't find DSO to load: libhermes-executor-debug.so caused by: dlopen failed: cannot locate symbol "_ZTVN6hermes2vm12CrashManagerE" referenced by "/data/app/~~xPxviTwL84s3LS8L8OTgAA==/com.flyfinapp-EZ0vekCsB5BzvVwFLbm-GQ==/lib/arm64/libhermes-executor-debug.so"... result: 0
2022-11-06 16:54:47.678 15942-15942/com.flyfinapp E/SoLoader: couldn't find DSO to load: libhermes-executor-release.so
        SoSource 0: com.facebook.soloader.ApkSoSource[root = /data/data/com.flyfinapp/lib-main flags = 1]
        SoSource 1: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /data/app/~~xPxviTwL84s3LS8L8OTgAA==/com.flyfinapp-EZ0vekCsB5BzvVwFLbm-GQ==/lib/arm64 flags = 0]
        SoSource 2: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /system/lib64 flags = 2]
        SoSource 3: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /vendor/lib64 flags = 2]
        Native lib dir: /data/app/~~xPxviTwL84s3LS8L8OTgAA==/com.flyfinapp-EZ0vekCsB5BzvVwFLbm-GQ==/lib/arm64
     result: 0
2022-11-06 16:54:47.679 15942-15942/com.flyfinapp E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    Process: com.flyfinapp, PID: 15942
    java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: couldn't find DSO to load: libhermes-executor-release.so
        SoSource 0: com.facebook.soloader.ApkSoSource[root = /data/data/com.flyfinapp/lib-main flags = 1]
        SoSource 1: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /data/app/~~xPxviTwL84s3LS8L8OTgAA==/com.flyfinapp-EZ0vekCsB5BzvVwFLbm-GQ==/lib/arm64 flags = 0]
        SoSource 2: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /system/lib64 flags = 2]
        SoSource 3: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /vendor/lib64 flags = 2]
        Native lib dir: /data/app/~~xPxviTwL84s3LS8L8OTgAA==/com.flyfinapp-EZ0vekCsB5BzvVwFLbm-GQ==/lib/arm64
     result: 0
        at com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader.doLoadLibraryBySoName(SoLoader.java:1127)
        at com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader.loadLibraryBySoNameImpl(SoLoader.java:943)
        at com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader.loadLibraryBySoName(SoLoader.java:855)
        at com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader.loadLibrary(SoLoader.java:802)
        at com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader.loadLibrary(SoLoader.java:772)
        at com.facebook.hermes.reactexecutor.HermesExecutor.loadLibrary(HermesExecutor.java:30)
        at com.facebook.hermes.reactexecutor.HermesExecutor.<clinit>(HermesExecutor.java:19)
        at com.facebook.hermes.reactexecutor.HermesExecutor.loadLibrary(HermesExecutor.java:23)
        at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManagerBuilder.getDefaultJSExecutorFactory(ReactInstanceManagerBuilder.java:369)
        at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManagerBuilder.build(ReactInstanceManagerBuilder.java:316)
        at com.facebook.react.ReactNativeHost.createReactInstanceManager(ReactNativeHost.java:94)
        at com.facebook.react.ReactNativeHost.getReactInstanceManager(ReactNativeHost.java:41)
        at com.flyfinapp.MainApplication.onCreate(MainApplication.java:77)
        at android.app.Instrumentation.callApplicationOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1266)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:6785)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.-$$Nest$mhandleBindApplication(Unknown Source:0)
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2134)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
        at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:201)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:288)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7898)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:548)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:936)
2022-11-06 16:54:47.679 15942-15942/com.flyfinapp E/WebEngage: App has crashed
    java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: couldn't find DSO to load: libhermes-executor-release.so
        SoSource 0: com.facebook.soloader.ApkSoSource[root = /data/data/com.flyfinapp/lib-main flags = 1]
        SoSource 1: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /data/app/~~xPxviTwL84s3LS8L8OTgAA==/com.flyfinapp-EZ0vekCsB5BzvVwFLbm-GQ==/lib/arm64 flags = 0]
        SoSource 2: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /system/lib64 flags = 2]
        SoSource 3: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /vendor/lib64 flags = 2]
        Native lib dir: /data/app/~~xPxviTwL84s3LS8L8OTgAA==/com.flyfinapp-EZ0vekCsB5BzvVwFLbm-GQ==/lib/arm64
     result: 0

lStar Solution

I recommend using fixed stable version of react native library if you are not using one, like below:

Optionally, you may consider using dynamic value of REACT_NATIVE_VERSION from your package.json file with the following script:

def REACT_NATIVE_VERSION = new File(['node', '--print',"JSON.parse(require('fs').readFileSync(require.resolve('react-native/package.json'), 'utf-8')).version"].execute(null, rootDir).text.trim())

allprojects {
    configurations.all {
        resolutionStrategy {
            force "com.facebook.react:react-native:" + REACT_NATIVE_VERSION
        }
    }
    repositories {
        google()
        ...
    }
}

Solution

This will prevent your app from unexpected behaviours due to unstable versions, however, downside of this is you have to check for latest updates from react native library manually and update time to time.

Soloader Solution

if you still facing Error of **/**.so plesase add below code in your project build.gradle.

packagingOptions {
        pickFirst "lib/armeabi-v7a/libc++_shared.so"
        pickFirst "lib/arm64-v8a/libc++_shared.so"
        pickFirst "lib/x86/libc++_shared.so"
        pickFirst "lib/x86_64/libc++_shared.so"
    }

soloder_solution

Conclusion

Happy Programming!

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