chore: disable hermes via gradle project env var (#18675)

fixes #18493

We enabled `hermes` for android in the `react-native` upgrade to `0.72.5`
Although things seemed fine but developers were seeing frequent crashes in their local environment.

After some investigation the crashes were traced to max native call stack depth in `hermes` engine.
Disabling `hermes` for local debug builds helps fix that issue.

This commit disables `hermes` by default with the help of a exporting an environment variable in the `make run-android` command.
It is annoying that this also modifies `android/gradle.properties` so we keep `hermesEnabled` as `false` there as well.
We also enable `hermes` when generating release builds so that we can take advantage of `hermes` engine in release builds.

We also add a log to print whether `hermes` is enabled or not. I think its helpful to have this so that we know whether `hermes` is enabled or not.
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Siddarth Kumar 2024-02-01 20:56:18 +05:30 committed by GitHub
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4 changed files with 18 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -273,6 +273,9 @@ run-re-frisk: ##@run Start re-frisk server
# TODO: Migrate this to a Nix recipe, much the same way as nix/mobile/android/targets/release-android.nix
run-android: export TARGET := android
# Disabled for debug builds to avoid 'maximum call stack exceeded' errors.
# https://github.com/status-im/status-mobile/issues/18493
run-android: export ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_hermesEnabled := false
# INFO: If it's empty (no devices attached, parsing issues, script error) - for Nix it's the same as not set.
run-android: export ANDROID_ABI_INCLUDE ?= $(shell ./scripts/adb_devices_abis.sh)
run-android: ##@run Build Android APK and start it on the device

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@ -57,4 +57,6 @@ newArchEnabled=false
# Use this property to enable or disable the Hermes JS engine.
# If set to false, you will be using JSC instead.
hermesEnabled=true
# Disabled for debug builds to avoid 'maximum call stack exceeded' errors.
# https://github.com/status-im/status-mobile/issues/18493
hermesEnabled=false

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@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
STATUS_GO_SRC_OVERRIDE = statusGoSrcOverride;
ANDROID_ABI_SPLIT = androidAbiSplit;
ANDROID_ABI_INCLUDE = androidAbiInclude;
# Disabled for debug builds to avoid 'maximum call stack exceeded' errors.
# https://github.com/status-im/status-mobile/issues/18493
ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_hermesEnabled = true;
# Fix for ERR_OSSL_EVP_UNSUPPORTED error.
NODE_OPTIONS = "--openssl-legacy-provider";

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@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
[react-native.platform :as platform]
[react-native.shake :as react-native-shake]
[reagent.impl.batching :as batching]
[status-im.common.log :as log]
[status-im.common.log :as logging]
[taoensso.timbre :as log]
[status-im.common.universal-links :as universal-links]
[status-im.config :as config]
[status-im.contexts.profile.push-notifications.events :as notifications]
@ -34,12 +35,17 @@
(def adjust-resize 16)
(defn is-hermes
[]
(boolean (.-HermesInternal js/global)))
(defn init
[]
(native-module/init #(re-frame/dispatch [:signals/signal-received %]))
(when platform/android?
(native-module/set-soft-input-mode adjust-resize))
(log/setup config/log-level)
(logging/setup config/log-level)
(global-error/register-handler)
(notifications/listen-notifications)
(.addEventListener rn/app-state "change" #(re-frame/dispatch [:app-state-change %]))
@ -54,5 +60,6 @@
(async-storage/get-item :screen-height #(reset! shell.state/screen-height %))
(dev/setup)
(log/info "hermesEnabled ->" (is-hermes))
(re-frame/dispatch-sync [:app-started]))