fix(mobile): update Expo 58 to restore widgets and Live Activities#14734

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Build 97's widgets and Live Activities cannot render because Expo UI calls React.memo, which Expo Widgets 58.0.9 does not provide in its isolated runtime. The SDK's recommended package versions have moved ahead as well.

Upgrade Expo to 58.0.2 and its recommended package set, including Expo UI and Expo Widgets 58.0.11. This adopts the upstream runtime fix from expo/expo#50834, first released in Expo Widgets 58.0.10, and removes our duplicate memo patch. Carry forward the remaining audio, blur, sharing, and widget patches to their new package versions. Exclude the repo's intentionally selected TypeScript compiler from Expo's version recommendation check.

Validation:

  • expo install --check passes. React Native and React versions remain at the SDK 58 versions already on main.
  • Mobile typecheck and 72 focused widget/registration tests pass.
  • Both iOS and Android widget runtime bundles build and initialize. The installed React stub matches the published upstream package exactly.
  • Rebuilt and installed the iOS native client on an iOS 26.5 simulator. The usage widget renders; Live Activity creation and updates work with staleDate, and the updated content renders on the Lock Screen.

The simulator verification uses fixture data through a temporary diagnostic screen, exercising the real native factories and extension rendering. It bypasses the normal thread-start and relay-registration path; physical-device relay/APNs delivery remains unverified. The screen is not included in the change.

A new native build is required. OTA updates cannot replace the extension runtime. Expo displays the red error box only in DEBUG builds; TestFlight renders the same error node as an empty view.

Model: GPT-6.1 Sol. Harness: Codex in T3 Code.

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βœ… Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

ℹ️ The exact PR base did not have a successful artifact. Baseline uses the latest successful main measurement shown below.

ProviderMetricMain baselineThis PRImpactPR ceiling
CodexTotal thread wire13.5 KiB13.5 KiB+1 B (+0.0%)15.1 KiBβœ…
CodexThread snapshot wire7.0 KiB7.1 KiB+20 B (+0.3%)7.3 KiBβœ…
CodexLive turn WebSocket wire6.5 KiB6.4 KiBβˆ’19 B (βˆ’0.3%)7.8 KiBβœ…
CodexLive turn WebSocket decoded56.3 KiB56.2 KiBβˆ’44 B (βˆ’0.1%)66.4 KiBβœ…
CodexLive turn messages109βˆ’1 (βˆ’10.0%)21βœ…
ClaudeTotal thread wire13.5 KiB13.5 KiBβˆ’1 B (βˆ’0.0%)15.1 KiBβœ…
ClaudeThread snapshot wire7.1 KiB7.1 KiB+11 B (+0.2%)7.3 KiBβœ…
ClaudeLive turn WebSocket wire6.5 KiB6.4 KiBβˆ’12 B (βˆ’0.2%)7.8 KiBβœ…
ClaudeLive turn WebSocket decoded57.0 KiB57.0 KiB0 B (0.0%)66.4 KiBβœ…
ClaudeLive turn messages990 (0.0%)21βœ…

Baseline: 408ff8a Β· PR result: 5f8beb9 Β· Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

  • Codex decoded thread snapshot: 114.0 KiB
  • Claude decoded thread snapshot: 114.7 KiB

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Verdict: Approved at 5f8beb9

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable β€” This is a focused mobile dependency-alignment fix that moves existing widget and Live Activity paths onto the upstream Expo 58 runtime fix, with accompanying lockfile and patch-registration updates. It adds no product-default change, schema or infrastructure change, or static-analysis suppression.

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Live Activity environment data now includes rendering-mode and Liquid Glass availability fields. Banner and Dynamic Island layouts are evaluated in their rendered views. Added tests exercise bundled widget output, and the layout-registry script now compares real paths.

Changes

Live Activity rendering

Layer / File(s)Summary
Live Activity environment data
patches/expo-widgets@58.0.9.patch
The environment type adds optional rendering-mode and Liquid Glass fields. iOS supplies the rendering mode and sets Liquid Glass availability to true on iOS 26 or later.
Per-view layout evaluation
patches/expo-widgets@58.0.9.patch
Banner and Dynamic Island views build layout nodes using their own environments. WidgetLiveActivity passes the activity context and section name instead of parent-built nodes.
Bundled widget rendering checks
patches/expo-widgets@58.0.9.patch, scripts/mobile-widget-runtime.test.ts
The React stub exports an identity memo function. The tests build and run the iOS bundle, then check Live Activity and subscription-usage output.

Layout registry entry-point check

Layer / File(s)Summary
Real-path entry-point comparison
patches/expo-widgets@58.0.9.patch
The layout-registry script compares the real paths of the invoked script and __filename before running main.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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The widget-runtime test cannot run from a checkout path containing spaces. This is a bounded test limitation, not an established failure of widget rendering.

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Convert the file URL to a filesystem path.

If the checkout path contains a space, .pathname retains %20. The bundle build then receives an invalid cwd, so the test fails before it runs. Use fileURLToPath(new URL("../apps/mobile/", import.meta.url)) for mobileRoot.

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This test file was removed in the current PR, so the path conversion no longer applies. The latest revision uses the upstream Expo Widgets runtime fix and retains no test code using URL.pathname.

@juliusmarminge Thanks for clarifying. With scripts/mobile-widget-runtime.test.ts removed, the path conversion finding no longer applies. I withdraw the finding.

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