[FelipePSoares]

Problem

The release pipeline failed on master in the Release workflow, job android-build, step Build standalone release APK (run 41234254542):

> Task :app:configureCMakeRelWithDebInfo[arm64-v8a] FAILED
> Task :react-native-screens:configureCMakeRelWithDebInfo[arm64-v8a] FAILED
[CXX1300] CMake '3.30.4' was not found in SDK, PATH, or by cmake.dir property.

Root cause

The build pins the CMake version through android.cmakeVersion (written by plugins/with-detox-android.js into the generated gradle.properties). That is not a preference: Expo's ExpoRootProjectPlugin assigns it to every module —

android.externalNativeBuild.cmake.version = cmakeVersion

— so AGP looks for exactly cmake/3.30.4 in the SDK. The ubuntu-latest runner image only ships SDK CMake 3.31.5, and the job never ran sdkmanager, so configureCMakeRelWithDebInfo failed for the app and for react-native-screens.

Fix

1. The release workflow installs the pinned CMake (.github/workflows/Release.yml): a new step between expo prebuild and the Gradle build —

• reads the version from the generated gradle.properties, which exists by then, instead of repeating it;
• fails with an explicit error if the pin ever disappears, rather than at compile time;
• installs cmake;<version> via sdkmanager;
• asserts the install landed (test -x …/bin/cmake) and prints cmake --version.

2. The pin gets a tracked source of truth (econoflow-mobile/app.json): the version now lives in app.json as the cmakeVersion argument of ./plugins/with-detox-android, and the plugin writes it into gradle.properties (keeping 3.30.4 as its default). android/ is gitignored and regenerated by expo prebuild, so a policy test reading gradle.properties alone is green locally and red on a fresh checkout — this puts the value somewhere a test and a reviewer can see it.

Tests

scripts/cra-compliance.test.mjs — the release workflow installs the CMake version the Android build is pinned to — asserts the pin at its source (app.json), that the workflow runs sdkmanager, reads android.cmakeVersion, and installs "cmake;${CMAKE_VERSION}".

It was red before the change, for the same reason CI failed:

• before commit 1: .github/workflows/Release.yml never runs sdkmanager…
• before commit 2: app.json no longer runs ./plugins/with-detox-android…

Verification

Check	Result
node scripts/cra-compliance.test.mjs	31 pass / 0 fail
node scripts/npm-override-freshness.test.mjs	53 pass / 0 fail
cd econoflow-mobile && npm test	91 suites / 1023 tests pass
npm run typecheck / npm run lint	clean
npx expo config --type prebuild	valid

No backend or frontend code touched.