feat: upgrade react-native-expo to Expo SDK 54

[teodorciuraru]

Summary

Upgrades the react-native-expo quickstart from Expo SDK 53 to SDK 54 with minimal changes.

Changes

• ✅ Upgraded Expo SDK from ~53 to ~54.0.25
• ✅ Upgraded React to 19.1.0 and React Native to 0.81.5
• ✅ Updated all Expo packages to SDK 54 compatible versions
• ✅ Added SafeAreaProvider from react-native-safe-area-context
• ✅ Added react-native-worklets (required peer dependency for reanimated)
• ✅ Added Expo 54 Android config (edgeToEdgeEnabled, predictiveBackGestureEnabled)
• ✅ Enabled reactCompiler experiment
• ✅ Added dark mode splash screen
• ✅ Simple index.js entry point (minimal diff, no expo-router structure changes)

Files Changed

Only react-native-expo/ files modified:

• package.json: Dependency upgrades
• app.json: Expo 54 config options
• App.tsx: SafeAreaProvider implementation
• index.js: Simple entry point (new file)
• yarn.lock: Updated lockfile

Testing

• Clean build iOS
• Clean build Android
• Ditto sync verified
• SafeAreaView handles notches properly

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Pull request overview

This PR upgrades the react-native-expo quickstart from Expo SDK 53 to SDK 54, updating React Native from 0.79.5 to 0.81.5 and React from 19.0.0 to 19.1.0. The upgrade includes necessary configuration changes for both iOS and Android platforms, adds SafeAreaProvider for proper edge-to-edge handling, and includes a new peer dependency (react-native-worklets) required by react-native-reanimated 4.x.

Key Changes

• Dependency upgrades to Expo SDK 54 with React Native 0.81.5 and React 19.1.0
• Added SafeAreaProvider wrapper and react-native-worklets peer dependency
• Enabled New Architecture with React Compiler experiment
• Configured edge-to-edge display and dark mode splash screens for both platforms

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 19 out of 22 changed files in this pull request and generated 3 comments.

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File	Description
react-native-expo/package.json	Updated all dependencies to SDK 54 compatible versions, changed main entry to index.js
react-native-expo/index.js	New simple entry point using registerRootComponent
react-native-expo/app.json	Added Android edge-to-edge config, dark mode splash, and React Compiler experiment
react-native-expo/App.tsx	Wrapped app in SafeAreaProvider, added DQL_STRICT_MODE configuration
react-native-expo/ios/Podfile	Updated Podfile with SDK 54 requirements and ccache helper function
react-native-expo/ios/Podfile.lock	Updated all iOS dependencies to SDK 54 versions
react-native-expo/ios/Info.plist	Enabled New Architecture (RCTNewArchEnabled)
react-native-expo/ios/*.storyboard	Added dark mode splash screen support
react-native-expo/android/build.gradle	Removed deprecated reactNativeAndroidDir configuration
react-native-expo/android/gradle.properties	Enabled parallel builds and edge-to-edge mode
react-native-expo/android/app/build.gradle	Updated R8 configuration naming (enableProguardInReleaseBuilds → enableMinifyInReleaseBuilds)
react-native-expo/android/app/src/main/java/com/anonymous/reactnativeexpo/MainApplication.kt	Updated to new React Native 0.81 initialization pattern
react-native-expo/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml	Disabled predictive back gesture (android:enableOnBackInvokedCallback)
react-native-expo/android/app/src/main/res/values/styles.xml	Updated edge-to-edge theming
react-native-expo/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties	Upgraded Gradle from 8.13 to 8.14.3
react-native-expo/.gitignore	Simplified native folder ignore patterns

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (1)

react-native-expo/android/gradlew:1

• The CLASSPATH has been set to an empty string with escaped quotes, which will break Gradle execution. This should remain as CLASSPATH=$APP_HOME/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar. The change on line 216 to use -jar flag is correct, but the CLASSPATH should not be emptied.

#!/bin/sh

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