Bump bundled rive-android to ≥ 11.5.0 for the libandroid.so startup-crash fix

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Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
android, react-native, typescript

Research direction

Search the repository for the runtimeVersions.android definition and inspect how the bundled rive-android version is selected. Update it to at least 11.5.0, ideally 11.7.1, then verify the generated Android dependency uses that version and covers the reported libandroid.so startup-crash case.

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Description

Bump bundled rive-android to ≥ 11.5.0 for the libandroid.so startup-crash fix

rive-react-native@9.8.3 still pins rive-android 11.4.1. The fix for the common startup crash

MissingLibraryException: Could not find 'libandroid.so'. Looked for: [armeabi-v7a, armeabi], but only found: [].
  at app.rive.runtime.kotlin.RiveInitializer.create

landed in rive-android 11.5.0 (#12293, non-recursive linking) — so it's unreachable from any released wrapper (11.4.1 < 11.5.0).

Request: bump runtimeVersions.android to ≥ 11.5.0 (ideally 11.7.1).

Crash fires at startup via RiveInitializer, killing the app before RN loads — a top Android crash for us on low-end devices. Refs: rive-app/rive-android#323, #341.

rive-react-native version

9.8.3

React Native version

0.81.5

Expo setup

Expo prebuild

Expo SDK version

54

Device

Samsung Galaxy J4 Core (SM-J410F), armeabi-v7a — also seen on Hisense / low-end 32-bit devices

OS version

Android 8.1

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