Native Initialization in a react native project using expo

[jakubjanuchta]

Description

Hello,

Is there a way to enable Native Initialization (so that Sentry will send events for native crashes on app load) using Expo on iOS?

https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/react-native/manual-setup/native-init/

I see that it's possible to do that by modifying the AppDelegate file to initialize the SDK as soon as possible but I'm not able to do that using expo.
https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/apple/guides/ios/#configure

Thank you in advance

[krystofwoldrich]

Hello @jakubjanuchta,
thank you for the message, you are correct, when using Continues Native Generation, you can't directly modify the native code to add the manual native Sentry.init().

However you can use Expo Plugin and Mods to add the native code init, but note that this is an advance technique and we currently provide no docs for this.

We are aware of the need to initialize the SDK as early as possible and are working on a new manual initialization for RN on native. Enabling the native init before JS will be possible using Sentry Expo Plugin -> #4633

For latest updates please follow #3608

[jakubjanuchta]

Thank you for your response @krystofwoldrich 👍