fix(android): strip dangling splashscreen_logo reference

app.config.js

@@ -120,6 +120,10 @@ export default {
   githubUrl: 'https://github.com/wyne/scorepad-react-native',
   owner: 'wyne',
   plugins: [
+    // Listed BEFORE expo-splash-screen: Expo runs the most recently registered
+    // mod first, so an earlier-listed plugin's withAndroidStyles mod runs LAST,
+    // i.e. after expo-splash-screen has written its style items.
+    './plugins/withAndroidSplashNoIcon',
     ['expo-splash-screen', {
       backgroundColor: '#F2F2F7',
       dark: { backgroundColor: '#000000' },

plugins/withAndroidSplashNoIcon.js

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+const { withAndroidStyles } = require('expo/config-plugins');
+
+/**
+ * expo-splash-screen always writes a `windowSplashScreenAnimatedIcon` item that
+ * points at `@drawable/splashscreen_logo`, even when the splash config only sets
+ * a `backgroundColor` (no image). With no icon image configured, that drawable is
+ * never generated, so a clean Android prebuild fails resource linking with:
+ *   error: resource drawable/splashscreen_logo not found
+ *
+ * We intentionally use a color-only native splash (the animated logo is handled in
+ * JS by src/components/SplashOverlay.tsx), so this plugin strips the dangling icon
+ * reference after expo-splash-screen runs. It MUST be listed AFTER
+ * 'expo-splash-screen' in the plugins array so its withAndroidStyles mod runs last.
+ */
+module.exports = (config) =>
+  withAndroidStyles(config, (config) => {
+    const styles = config.modResults.resources.style ?? [];
+    let removed = false;
+
+    for (const style of styles) {
+      if (!Array.isArray(style.item)) continue;
+      const before = style.item.length;
+      style.item = style.item.filter(
+        ({ $ }) => $.name !== 'windowSplashScreenAnimatedIcon'
+      );
+      if (style.item.length !== before) removed = true;
+    }
+
+    if (!removed) {
+      throw new Error(
+        'withAndroidSplashNoIcon: did not find a windowSplashScreenAnimatedIcon item to remove. ' +
+          'Ensure this plugin is listed after expo-splash-screen.'
+      );
+    }
+
+    return config;
+  });