React-native-background-geolocation: Could not determine the dependencies of task ':app:preDebugBuild'. Conflict with Fabric, Firebase and push notifications

[Luckygirlllll]

Your Environment

• Plugin version: 2.12.2
• Platform: Android
• OS version: all
• Device manufacturer / model: all
• React Native version (react-native -v): 0.55.1
• Plugin config

Expected Behavior

I just have finished installation of the plugin, expected behavior - app should continue work

Actual Behavior

App shows such errors:

Version of the dependencies in my project is higher than in example:

ext {
    compileSdkVersion = 27
    targetSdkVersion = 27
    buildToolsVersion = "27.0.3"
    supportLibVersion = "27.1.0"
    googlePlayServicesVersion = "15.0.1"
    gradle3EXPERIMENTAL = "yes"
} 

[christocracy]

None of those errors have anything to do with the plugin. I suggest you open your app in Android Studio and perform a Build->Clean Project.

Btw, your gradle property gradle3EXPERIMENTAL = "yes" is a Mauron85-only option.

[Luckygirlllll]

@christocracy I have already tried Build->Clean Project, it didn't help, I got these errors after the adding react-native-background-geolocation library, all stuff related to Firebase started show errors, I guess, it's somehow conflicting with the library, I'm using latest version of googlePlayServicesVersion in my project.

[christocracy]

You're not even getting far enough to have firebase version conflicts. Your app is failing to locate added projects in your settings.gradle

• Do you not see warnings / errors in Android Studio?
• In the file-manager on left, you should see a folder for each added module in your project.

Close / re-open Android Studio.

[Luckygirlllll]

@christocracy
I have all of that libs in settings.gradle

[christocracy]

And do all those modules appear in the file-explorer on left?

[Luckygirlllll]

@christocracy yes

[christocracy]

There's your problem. Your app is not finding those 3 plugins. As you can see, those folders are empty.

You'll want to remove the Mauron85 version.

[christocracy]

in Android Studio: File -> Sync Project With Gradle Files

[Luckygirlllll]

@christocracy that didn't help either

[christocracy]

• In settings.gradle, comment-out all lines referencing mauron85. Re-sync.
• confirm in your node_modules that those missing plugins actually exist on your file-system.

[Luckygirlllll]

@christocracy I unlinked and uninstalled react-native-background-fetch, and somehow firebase appeared again

[Luckygirlllll]

Also I unlinked and installed react-native-background-geolocation and got all other modules back

[Luckygirlllll]

P.S: before doing all of that, I was uninstalling mauron85 library as well, sync the project after that, but it did give any result

[Luckygirlllll]

Somehow your library is conflicting with fabric, firebase and push notifications in my project

[Luckygirlllll]

I can confirm that I have these libraries in node_modules

[christocracy]

Now that those folders are shown, you should be good to proceed.

[Luckygirlllll]

@christocracy em, when I'm adding your library they disappear

[christocracy]

Show me the following files:

• android/build.gradle
• android/app/build.gradle

[Luckygirlllll]

android/app/build.gradle

apply plugin: "com.android.application"
apply plugin: 'io.fabric'

import com.android.build.OutputFile

project.ext.react = [
    entryFile: "index.js"
]

apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native/react.gradle"
apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native-vector-icons/fonts.gradle"

def enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture = false
def enableProguardInReleaseBuilds = false

android {
    compileSdkVersion 27
    buildToolsVersion "27.0.3"

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.xxx"
        minSdkVersion 16
        targetSdkVersion 26
        versionCode 4
        versionName "1.2"
        multiDexEnabled true
        ndk {
            abiFilters "armeabi-v7a", "x86"
        }
    }
    splits {
        abi {
            reset()
            enable enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture
            universalApk false  // If true, also generate a universal APK
            include "armeabi-v7a", "x86"
        }
    }
    signingConfigs {
        release {
            storeFile file(RELEASE_STORE_FILE)
            storePassword RELEASE_STORE_PASSWORD
            keyAlias RELEASE_KEY_ALIAS
            keyPassword RELEASE_KEY_PASSWORD
        }
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            signingConfig signingConfigs.release
            minifyEnabled enableProguardInReleaseBuilds
        }

    }

    dexOptions {
        jumboMode true
    }
    applicationVariants.all { variant ->
        variant.outputs.each { output ->
            // For each separate APK per architecture, set a unique version code as described here:
            // http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-guide/apk-splits
            def versionCodes = ["armeabi-v7a":1, "x86":2]
            def abi = output.getFilter(OutputFile.ABI)
            if (abi != null) {  // null for the universal-debug, universal-release variants
                output.versionCodeOverride =
                        versionCodes.get(abi) * 1048576 + defaultConfig.versionCode
            }
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile project(':react-native-background-fetch')
    compile project(':react-native-background-geolocation')
    compile project(':react-native-video')
    compile project(':react-native-camera')
    compile project(':react-native-fabric')
    compile project(':react-native-firebase')
    compile project(':react-native-mixpanel')
    compile project(':react-native-push-notification')
    compile project(':react-native-branch')
    compile (project(':react-native-video')) {
       exclude group: "com.android.support", module: 'support-v4'
    }
    compile (project(':react-native-camera')) {
       exclude group: "com.android.support", module: 'support-v4'
    }
    compile project(':react-native-cookies')
    compile project(':react-native-fbsdk')
    compile project(':react-native-device-info')
    compile project(':react-native-config')
    compile project(':react-native-i18n')
    compile project(':react-native-vector-icons')
    compile 'com.android.support:multidex:1.0.0'
    compile fileTree(dir: "libs", include: ["*.jar"])
    compile "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:27.0.1"
    compile "com.facebook.react:react-native:+"  // From node_modules
    implementation "com.google.android.gms:play-services-base:15.0.1"
    implementation "com.google.firebase:firebase-core:16.0.1"
    implementation('com.crashlytics.sdk.android:crashlytics:2.9.4@aar') {
        transitive = true
    }
}

// Run this once to be able to run the application with BUCK
// puts all compile dependencies into folder libs for BUCK to use
task copyDownloadableDepsToLibs(type: Copy) {
    from configurations.compile
    into 'libs'
}

    apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'

[Luckygirlllll]

android/build.gradle

buildscript {
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
        maven {
            url 'https://maven.fabric.io/public'
        }

    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.3'
        classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.0.1'
        classpath 'io.fabric.tools:gradle:1.25.4'

        // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
        // in the individual module build.gradle files
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        mavenLocal()
        google()
        jcenter()
        maven {
            // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
            url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android"
        }
        maven { url 'https://maven.google.com' }
              maven {
                      url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native-background-geolocation/android/libs"
                   }
               maven {
                       url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native-background-fetch/android/libs"
               }
    }
}

ext {
    compileSdkVersion = 27
    targetSdkVersion = 27
    buildToolsVersion = "27.0.3"
    supportLibVersion = "27.1.0"
    googlePlayServicesVersion = "15.0.1"
}

[Luckygirlllll]

I just have tried to add your library once again, so react-native-push-nofication library disappeared immediately after I run `npm install --save react-native-background-geolocation, all other libraries survived this time.

Now it shows only this error:

`

[christocracy]

Could not reproduce.

[Luckygirlllll]

@christocracy I think I found the problem, I used yarn for the installing all packages, but I used npm for the installing react-native-background-geolocation, so I think that is causing the problem.

[christocracy]

You should choose one or the other.

[christocracy]

Btw, if you’re posting your locations to Firebase, I’ve released a new adapter plugin for background-geolocation which will override the plugin’s SQLite/http services and post to Firebase for you.

[Jobel91]

I confirm what @Luckygirlllll said. I got build issues after added a package using npm instead of yarn. The solution is to add the package with yarn.

[FathomSamadhan]

Could not determine the dependencies of task ':app:preDebugBuild'.

Getting this error

[christocracy]

Could not determine the dependencies of task ':app:preDebugBuild'.

Care to elaborate on that? That’s like a doctor saying “patient died from blood loss”.