fix(android): Use safeExtGet for compileSdkVersion in expo-handler

[lucas-zimerman]

📢 Type of change

• Bugfix

📜 Description

Add safeExtGet helper to expo-handler/build.gradle and use it for compileSdkVersion and minSdkVersion instead of hardcoded values, matching the pattern already used in the main build.gradle.

💡 Motivation and Context

When a user only has a newer Android SDK installed (e.g. SDK 36) and not SDK 31, the build fails with:

Failed to find target with hash string 'android-31' in: /Users/<user>/Library/Android/sdk

This happens because expo-handler/build.gradle hardcodes compileSdkVersion 31, while the main build.gradle already uses safeExtGet('compileSdkVersion', 31) to inherit the value from the root project. The fix brings expo-handler in line with the same pattern.

Fixes #6054

💚 How did you test it?

Code review — the change is a mechanical port of the existing safeExtGet pattern from packages/core/android/build.gradle into packages/core/android/expo-handler/build.gradle.

📝 Checklist

• I added tests to verify changes
• No new PII added or SDK only sends newly added PII if sendDefaultPII is enabled
• I updated the docs if needed.
• I updated the wizard if needed.
• All tests passing
• No breaking changes

🔮 Next steps

[antonis]

LGTM 🎸

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Android (legacy) Performance metrics 🚀

	Plain	With Sentry	Diff
Startup time	501.73 ms	548.56 ms	46.83 ms
Size	43.75 MiB	48.15 MiB	4.40 MiB

Baseline results on branch: main

Startup times

Revision	Plain	With Sentry	Diff
4953e94+dirty	442.02 ms	456.52 ms	14.50 ms
2c735cc+dirty	414.09 ms	438.47 ms	24.38 ms
df5d108+dirty	527.06 ms	603.58 ms	76.52 ms
3ce5254+dirty	410.57 ms	448.48 ms	37.91 ms
3d377b5+dirty	406.18 ms	453.52 ms	47.34 ms
0d9949d+dirty	403.57 ms	437.00 ms	33.43 ms
4b87b12+dirty	421.82 ms	413.60 ms	-8.22 ms
7ac3378+dirty	404.78 ms	439.84 ms	35.06 ms
890d145+dirty	504.54 ms	491.55 ms	-12.99 ms
3817909+dirty	406.67 ms	416.58 ms	9.91 ms

App size

Revision	Plain	With Sentry	Diff
4953e94+dirty	43.75 MiB	48.08 MiB	4.33 MiB
2c735cc+dirty	43.75 MiB	48.08 MiB	4.33 MiB
df5d108+dirty	43.75 MiB	48.08 MiB	4.33 MiB
3ce5254+dirty	43.75 MiB	48.12 MiB	4.37 MiB
3d377b5+dirty	43.75 MiB	48.14 MiB	4.39 MiB
0d9949d+dirty	43.75 MiB	48.13 MiB	4.37 MiB
4b87b12+dirty	43.75 MiB	48.14 MiB	4.39 MiB
7ac3378+dirty	43.75 MiB	48.13 MiB	4.37 MiB
890d145+dirty	43.75 MiB	48.14 MiB	4.39 MiB
3817909+dirty	43.75 MiB	48.08 MiB	4.33 MiB

[sentry]

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Android

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