Android adb + expo configuration

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HI all, I develop a React Native + Expo application and am unable to make it work on Nix, the yarn android command tries to run adb from my home directory, which results in the following error:

yarn run v1.22.19
$ expo run:android
Error: Could not start dynamically linked executable: /home/arthur/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb
NixOS cannot run dynamically linked executables intended for generic
linux environments out of the box. For more information, see:
https://nix.dev/permalink/stub-ld
Error: /home/arthur/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb exited with non-zero code: 127
    at ChildProcess.completionListener (/home/arthur/Code/myhabit/app/node_modules/@expo/spawn-async/build/spawnAsync.js:52:23)
    at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:629:26)
    at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:514:28)
    at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1105:16)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (node:internal/child_process:457:11)
    at Socket.emit (node:events:514:28)
    at Pipe.<anonymous> (node:net:337:12)
    ...
    at Object.spawnAsync [as default] (/home/arthur/Code/myhabit/app/node_modules/@expo/spawn-async/build/spawnAsync.js:17:21)
    at ADBServer.startAsync (/home/arthur/Code/myhabit/app/node_modules/@expo/cli/build/src/start/platforms/android/ADBServer.js:44:77)
    at ADBServer.runAsync (/home/arthur/Code/myhabit/app/node_modules/@expo/cli/build/src/start/platforms/android/ADBServer.js:75:20)
    at Object.getAttachedDevicesAsync (/home/arthur/Code/myhabit/app/node_modules/@expo/cli/build/src/start/platforms/android/adb.js:134:38)
    at Object.getDevicesAsync (/home/arthur/Code/myhabit/app/node_modules/@expo/cli/build/src/start/platforms/android/getDevices.js:10:43)
    at AndroidDeviceManager.resolveAsync (/home/arthur/Code/myhabit/app/node_modules/@expo/cli/build/src/start/platforms/android/AndroidDeviceManager.js:65:48)
    at Object.resolveDeviceAsync (/home/arthur/Code/myhabit/app/node_modules/@expo/cli/build/src/run/android/resolveDevice.js:11:74)
    at Object.resolveOptionsAsync (/home/arthur/Code/myhabit/app/node_modules/@expo/cli/build/src/run/android/resolveOptions.js:19:43)
    at async runAndroidAsync (/home/arthur/Code/myhabit/app/node_modules/@expo/cli/build/src/run/android/runAndroidAsync.js:31:19)
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.

I have tried installing everything with home-manager, and everything under system packages

I could not find any tutorials or any other material online, so any help is appreciated
I am also a complete noob at Nix, so I might be missing something really obvious!

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Have you resolved this? I’m having the same problem.

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Yes! Completely forgot to come back here and update this, thank you!

What worked for me was creating a flake for my project with everything I needed and starting the emulator from command line.

You can put the flake in your project and enter the shell with nix develop.

This is the flake I was using:

{
inputs = {
  nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/23.11";
  flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
};
outputs = { self, nixpkgs, flake-utils }:
  flake-utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (system:
    let
      pkgs = import nixpkgs {
        inherit system;
        config = {
          android_sdk.accept_license = true;
          allowUnfree = true;
        };
      };
      androidComposition = pkgs.androidenv.composeAndroidPackages {
        buildToolsVersions = [ "34.0.0" "33.0.1" ];
        platformVersions = [ "34"];
        abiVersions = [ "x86_64" ];
        includeEmulator = true;
        emulatorVersion = "33.1.20";
        includeSystemImages = true;
        systemImageTypes = [ "google_apis" ];
        includeNDK = true;
        ndkVersions = ["25.1.8937393"];
        cmakeVersions = [ "3.22.1" ];
      };
      androidSdk = androidComposition.androidsdk;
    in
    {
      devShell =
        with pkgs; mkShell {
          ANDROID_SDK_ROOT = "${androidSdk}/libexec/android-sdk";
          GRADLE_OPTS = "-Dorg.gradle.project.android.aapt2FromMavenOverride=${androidSdk}/libexec/android-sdk/build-tools/34.0.0/aapt2";
          LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${libglvnd}/lib";
          buildInputs = [
            androidSdk

            nodejs
            corepack
            jdk17
            crudini
          ];
        };
    });
}