Expo has historically exported several APIs on the global __expo and Expo objects in order to make it easier for libraries to interoperate between Expo managed environments and bare React Native projects.

All of these APIs have since been extracted from the expo package itself and other techniques are available to solve the problem that the globals were intended to solve.

Global exports will be removed in SDK 41.

If you are an app developer and you just want to find out how to get rid of this warning, you should first determine if you are using the global object directly in your own codebase, and if not then it is likely from one of your dependencies.

If it's in your own codebase, then install the corresponding package and import from it instead of using the global. For example, for Constants (expo-constants) you would run npx expo install expo-constants and then change global.__expo.Constants to import Constants from 'expo-constants';.

If it's not in your own codebase, then you can search your node_modules directory for __expo.[API_NAME] - for example __expo.Icon, and also Expo.[API_NAME]. You can then check if the library has updated to remove the dependency on the global, or use patch-package to patch the issue directly in your node_modules and open an issue or pull request to resolve it. If you don't have time and you just want to ignore the warning, use LogBox.ignoreLogs(...) from react-native.

If you are a library author, you can provide functionality that only runs in the Expo managed workflow by using an .expo.[js|ts|tsx] file, similar to this example. Alternatively, you can have consumers of your library inject the dependency that, similar to this example.