Expo standalone application crashes in the splash screen when you use the Firebase module

[pruteanualex]

I have been building an application in React Native / Expo for some time, I managed to bring the project to a final stage but I was stuck implementing some firebase tools: messaging and in-app-messaging.I detailed this issue on stackoverflow
but I haven't been able to solve the problem yet.

These are the steps I followed to implement firebase in the project, to have access to these tools I used Expo Minimal and then following the documentation from firebase.

1. What I did the first time I installed the firebase modules I needed and then I used react native link to add them in degrees and java files.

//1) 
npm install @react-native-firebase/app
npx react-native link @react-native-firebase/app

//2)
npm install @react-native-firebase/messaging
npx react-native link @react-native-firebase/messaging

//3)
npm install @react-native-firebase/in-app-messaging
npx react-native link @react-native-firebase/in-app-messaging

These are the steps I followed to implement firebase in the project, to have access to these tools I used Expo Eject to have complete access,after this in aplication/android/build.gradle in dependencies i add the falloing code:

dependencies {
   .......
   implementation platform('com.google.firebase:firebase-bom:29.0.0')
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging'
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics'
  ......
}

aplication/android/settings.gradle

rootProject.name = 'Aplication Name'
include ':@react-native-firebase_in-app-messaging'
project(':@react-native-firebase_in-app-messaging').projectDir = new 
File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/@react-native-firebase/in-app- 
messaging/android')
include ':@react-native-firebase_messaging'
project(':@react-native-firebase_messaging').projectDir = new 
File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/@react-native- 
firebase/messaging/android')
include ':@react-native-firebase_app'
project(':@react-native-firebase_app').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, 
'../node_modules/@react-native-firebase/app/android')

apply from: new File(["node", "--print", 
"require.resolve('expo/package.json')"].execute().text.trim(), 
"../scripts/autolinking.gradle");
useExpoModules()

apply from: new File(["node", "--print", "require.resolve('@react-native- 
community/cli-platform-android/package.json')"].execute().text.trim(), 
"../native_modules.gradle");
applyNativeModulesSettingsGradle(settings)

include ':app'

MainApplication.java

package com.application.com;

import android.app.Application;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.Configuration;
import androidx.annotation.NonNull;

import com.facebook.react.PackageList;
import com.facebook.react.ReactApplication;
import io.invertase.firebase.fiam.ReactNativeFirebaseFiamPackage;
import io.invertase.firebase.messaging.ReactNativeFirebaseMessagingPackage;
import io.invertase.firebase.app.ReactNativeFirebaseAppPackage;
import io.invertase.firebase.app.ReactNativeFirebaseAppPackage;
import com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManager;
import com.facebook.react.ReactNativeHost;
import com.facebook.react.ReactPackage;
import com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader;


import expo.modules.ApplicationLifecycleDispatcher;
import expo.modules.ReactNativeHostWrapper;

import com.facebook.react.bridge.JSIModulePackage;
import com.swmansion.reanimated.ReanimatedJSIModulePackage;

import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.util.List;

public class MainApplication extends Application implements ReactApplication {
  private final ReactNativeHost mReactNativeHost = new ReactNativeHostWrapper(
    this,
    new ReactNativeHost(this) {
   @Override
   public boolean getUseDeveloperSupport() {
      return BuildConfig.DEBUG;
   }

   @Override
   protected List<ReactPackage> getPackages() {
      @SuppressWarnings("UnnecessaryLocalVariable")
     List<ReactPackage> packages = new PackageList(this).getPackages();
      // Packages that cannot be autolinked yet can be added manually here, for example:
     // packages.add(new MyReactNativePackage());
     return packages;
  }

   @Override
     protected String getJSMainModuleName() {
      return "index";
    }

    @Override
   protected JSIModulePackage getJSIModulePackage() {
    return new ReanimatedJSIModulePackage();
  }
 });

 @Override
  public ReactNativeHost getReactNativeHost() {
    return mReactNativeHost;
 }

 @Override
  public void onCreate() {
    super.onCreate();
    SoLoader.init(this, /* native exopackage */ false);

    initializeFlipper(this, getReactNativeHost().getReactInstanceManager());
    ApplicationLifecycleDispatcher.onApplicationCreate(this);
  }

  @Override
  public void onConfigurationChanged(@NonNull Configuration newConfig) {
     super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
     ApplicationLifecycleDispatcher.onConfigurationChanged(this, newConfig);
  }

  private static void initializeFlipper(
     Context context, ReactInstanceManager reactInstanceManager) {
    if (BuildConfig.DEBUG) {
      try {
        /*
         We use reflection here to pick up the class that initializes Flipper,
          since Flipper library is not available in release mode
       */
        Class<?> aClass = 
      Class.forName("com.pruteanu_alexandru.dendavivas.ReactNativeFlipper");
    aClass
        .getMethod("initializeFlipper", Context.class, ReactInstanceManager.class)
        .invoke(null, context, reactInstanceManager);
  } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
  } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
  } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
  } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
  }
}
}
}

Once I did the setup after the documentation I started to implement firebase in the project. In App.js I added the following blocks of code that I found on the official site from react native firebase.

App.js

import messaging from '@react-native-firebase/messaging'; 
import inAppMessaging from '@react-native-firebase/in-app-messaging';
export default function App() {
 const getToken  = async () => {
   const token = await messaging().getToken();
   console.log(token)
}
//In App Messaging
async function bootstrap() {
  await inAppMessaging().setMessagesDisplaySuppressed(true);
 }

 useEffect(() => {
  //In app messaging fnc 
  bootstrap()
  //Get Token
  getToken();

 messaging().onMessage(async remoteMessage => {
   console.log('A new FCM message arrived!', JSON.stringify(remoteMessage));
});

// Assume a message-notification contains a "type" property in the data payload of the screen to open
messaging().onNotificationOpenedApp(remoteMessage => {
  console.log(
    'Notification caused app to open from background state:',
    remoteMessage.notification,
  );
  //  console.log(remoteMessage.notification)
  // navigation.navigate(remoteMessage.data.type);
 
});
// Check whether an initial notification is available
messaging()
  .getInitialNotification()
  .then(remoteMessage => {
    if (remoteMessage) {
      console.log(
        'Notification caused app to open from quit state:',
        remoteMessage.notification,
      );
    
      // navigation.navigate(remoteMessage.data.type);
      setInitialRoute(remoteMessage.data.type); // e.g. "Settings"
    }
    // setLoading(false);
  });
}

index.js

import 'react-native-gesture-handler';
import { registerRootComponent } from 'expo';
import App from './App';
import messaging from '@react-native-firebase/messaging';

  messaging().setBackgroundMessageHandler(async remoteMessage => {
     console.log('Message handled in the background!', remoteMessage);
 });
  
// registerRootComponent calls AppRegistry.registerComponent('main', () => App);
// It also ensures that whether you load the app in Expo Go or in a native build,
// the environment is set up appropriately
registerRootComponent(App);

I don't understand a thing in Android Studio Emulator everything works without problems, not even an error, both notifications and In-app-messaging work without problems.
But when I export the application to my phone in apk format it doesn't work when I open the application it crashes in the spash screen.

Details:
Expo Workflows
Windows 10
SKD 43.0.0
Emulator: Pixel_4_XL_API_30
React Native