feat(expo): enhances notification config retrieval

[huextrat]

Description

Expo 54 will deprecate the use of notification in expo config in favor of expo-notifications expo plugin : https://docs.expo.dev/versions/v54.0.0/config/app/#notification

Improves notification configuration by first checking expo-notifications plugin for icon and color.

Falls back to deprecated config.notification settings. Warns about missing notification icon for Android.

Related issues

fixes: #8664

Release Summary

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Project	Deployment	Preview	Comments	Updated (UTC)
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[huextrat]

Ping @mikehardy - @MichaelVerdon to get your opinion on this

[mikehardy]

just closing and reopening to make sure CI runs, it appears to be hung for some reason

[huextrat]

just closing and reopening to make sure CI runs, it appears to be hung for some reason

I did a rebase on latest main + fix lint

[huextrat]

duplicate test b263759 to make sure both configuration are working

[MichaelVerdon]

LGTM!

[huextrat]

Any ETA for next version with this change?

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[huextrat]

Ping @mikehardy @MichaelVerdon, this is not stale

[mikehardy]

apologies for the delay - been spinning through all the Invertase npmjs packages implementing their new Trusted Publish thing so we can keep releasing software at all, and it's delayed me going through PRs here. This is on the radar though

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[JoniVR]

Ping. Still an issue (sorry, the bot requires it, I understand it might take longer)

[huextrat]

@mikehardy SDK 55 beta is now available and config.notification has now been removed: expo/expo#36885

Any idea how long it will take before we can merge this?

[mikehardy]

Not much longer, I do finally have a full expo build demo which allows me to reproduce / confirm Expo stuff more generally (with arbitrary versions including pre-release) https://github.com/mikehardy/rnfbdemo/blob/main/make-expo-demo.sh - but sadly it's because of this hot topic here

• [🐛] [Fixed in 23.8.4+] v23.8.0 .1 and .2 have a publishing regression - Expo plugin config is not valid - remain on 23.7.0 or wait for 23.8.4+ #8829

I must get that completely solved first - appears it may be close, so, on the order of days I believe

Thanks for your patience

[mikehardy]

Review at same time as

• feat(messaging, android): Add check for expo-notifications notification icon configurations #8563