Expo EAS build fails on Android

Question

I upgraded my expo project to expo 45.0.0 from expo 41.0.0.

While building the project using the command eas build -p android, it fails with the below errors. However, the ios build is fine.

Error Output:

FAILED
Execution optimizations have been disabled for task ':app:processReleaseMainManifest' to ensure correctness due to the following reasons:
  - Gradle detected a problem with the following location: '/home/expo/workingdir/build/android/app/build/intermediates/navigation_json/release/navigation.json'. Reason: Task ':app:processReleaseMainManifest' uses this output of task ':app:copyReleaseBundledJs' without declaring an explicit or implicit dependency. This can lead to incorrect results being produced, depending on what order the tasks are executed. Please refer to https://docs.gradle.org/7.3.3/userguide/validation_problems.html#implicit_dependency for more details about this problem.
See http://g.co/androidstudio/manifest-merger for more information about the manifest merger.
[stderr] /home/expo/workingdir/build/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml Error:
[stderr]    android:exported needs to be explicitly specified for <activity>. Apps targeting Android 12 and higher are required to specify an explicit value for `android:exported` when the corresponding component has an intent filter defined. See https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element#exported for details.
[stderr] FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
[stderr] * What went wrong:
[stderr] Execution failed for task ':app:processReleaseMainManifest'.
[stderr] > Manifest merger failed : android:exported needs to be explicitly specified for <activity>. Apps targeting Android 12 and higher are required to specify an explicit value for `android:exported` when the corresponding component has an intent filter defined. See https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element#exported for details.
[stderr] * Try:
[stderr] > Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace.
[stderr] > Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
[stderr] > Run with --scan to get full insights.
[stderr] * Get more help at https://help.gradle.org
[stderr] BUILD FAILED in 7m 58s

For more details about the issue, you can visit:

https://github.com/expo/eas-cli/issues/1101