A practical crash triage workflow for iOS and Android teams: get readable stack traces with dSYMs and R8 mapping files, group crashes sensibly, reproduce with context, fix with a test and confirm the fix per release with staged rollouts.
After upgrading to React Native 0.79 with the New Architecture on by default, our in-house printer module came back null on iOS and crashed on Android. Bridge-only registration and direct bridge calls were the cause; here is the migration path.
Bumping targetSdk to 35 put our toolbar under the status bar and the Pay button under the navigation bar on Android 15 devices. Edge-to-edge is now enforced, so we handled window insets properly in both Views and Compose screens.
Our API certificate renewal looked perfect in desktop Chrome, yet the Android app, curl and a partner's Java service all rejected it. The server sent only the leaf certificate without the intermediate. Serving the full chain fixed every client at once.
A new Android Studio with JDK 21 forced a Gradle upgrade, the Gradle upgrade pulled in AGP 8, and AGP 8 rejected two old Flutter plugins with Namespace not specified. How we untangled the Gradle, AGP, Kotlin and JDK chain.