diff --git a/gradle-plugins/react/brownfield/src/main/kotlin/com/callstack/react/brownfield/expo/ExpoPublishingHelper.kt b/gradle-plugins/react/brownfield/src/main/kotlin/com/callstack/react/brownfield/expo/ExpoPublishingHelper.kt
index 348bddba..41d11eef 100644
--- a/gradle-plugins/react/brownfield/src/main/kotlin/com/callstack/react/brownfield/expo/ExpoPublishingHelper.kt
+++ b/gradle-plugins/react/brownfield/src/main/kotlin/com/callstack/react/brownfield/expo/ExpoPublishingHelper.kt
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ open class ExpoPublishingHelper(val brownfieldAppProject: Project) {
                         @Suppress("UNCHECKED_CAST")
                         (json["variants"] as? List<MutableMap<String, Any>>)?.forEach { variant ->
                             Logging.log(
-                                "Injecting dependency to Gradle module JSON for variant" +
+                                "Injecting dependency to Gradle module JSON for variant " +
                                     "'${variant["name"]}': ${dependencyToAdd.groupId}:" +
                                     "${dependencyToAdd.artifactId}:${dependencyToAdd.version}",
                             )
diff --git a/gradle-plugins/react/brownfield/src/main/kotlin/com/callstack/react/brownfield/shared/Constants.kt b/gradle-plugins/react/brownfield/src/main/kotlin/com/callstack/react/brownfield/shared/Constants.kt
index f04eb43e..1cd9baeb 100644
--- a/gradle-plugins/react/brownfield/src/main/kotlin/com/callstack/react/brownfield/shared/Constants.kt
+++ b/gradle-plugins/react/brownfield/src/main/kotlin/com/callstack/react/brownfield/shared/Constants.kt
@@ -49,8 +49,6 @@ object Constants {
             ArtifactMatcher(groupId = StringMatcher.literal("host.exp.exponent")),
             ArtifactMatcher(groupId = StringMatcher.literal("BareExpo")),
             ArtifactMatcher(groupId = StringMatcher.regex("expo.*")),
-            // below: groupId of the local Expo app itself that may be referenced by some of the Expo packages
-            ArtifactMatcher(groupId = StringMatcher.literal("ExpoApp")),
             // below: a broken transitive dependency that has no version specified and thus breaks the build
             ArtifactMatcher(
                 groupId = StringMatcher.literal("org.jetbrains.kotlin"),