React-native-background-geolocation: Application keeps stopping after deploying android app in Closed Test environment

[juzerdhinoj]

Your Environment

• Plugin Version: "react-native-background-fetch": "^3.1.0", "react-native-background-geolocation": "^3.9.0"
• Platform: Android
• OS version: Android 10, Oxygen OS (sdk29)
• Device manufacturer / model: OnePlus Nord
• React Native version (react-native -v): 0.62.2

• Plugin config
  ```javascript
  UNSAFE_componentWillMount() {
  // 1. Wire up event-listeners
  // This handler fires whenever bgGeo receives a location update.
  BackgroundGeolocation.onLocation(this.onLocation, this.onError);
  // This event fires when the user toggles location-services authorization
  BackgroundGeolocation.onProviderChange(this.onProviderChange);

  }

  componentDidMount() {

  // 2.  Execute #ready method (required)
  BackgroundGeolocation.ready({
      // Geolocation Config
      desiredAccuracy: BackgroundGeolocation.DESIRED_ACCURACY_HIGH,
      distanceFilter: 1609, //minimum distance in meters (1 mile)
      stopTimeout: 5, //time in minutes
      useSignificantChangesOnly: true,
      //debug: true, // <-- enable this hear sounds for background-geolocation life-cycle.
      logLevel: BackgroundGeolocation.LOG_LEVEL_VERBOSE,
      stopOnTerminate: true,   // <-- Allow the background-service to continue tracking when user closes the app.
      //startOnBoot: true,        // <-- Auto start tracking when device is powered-up.
      notification: false,
      extras: {
          "isGasStationNearMe": false
      },
  
      locationAuthorizationRequest: 'Always',
      backgroundPermissionRationale: {
          title: "Allow HPC Fuel Rite to access this device's location in the background",
          message: "In order to track your activity in the background, please enable background location permission",
          positiveAction: "Allow",
          negativeAction: "Cancel"
      }
  
  }, (state) => {
      this.setState({ locationState: state })
  }, (error) => {
      console.log('Error while bg.ready()', error)
  });
  

  }

  // You must remove listeners when your component unmounts
  componentWillUnmount() {

  BackgroundGeolocation.stop();
  
  if (!this.state.notificationIsEnabled) {
      BackgroundGeolocation.removeListeners();
  }
  //this.setLocationUpdates("off")
  //this.toggleSwitch()
  

  }

## Expected Behavior
<!--- Tell us what should happen -->
Application should open and function as intended.

## Actual Behavior
<!--- Tell us what happens instead -->
Application crashes when opened.

## Steps to Reproduce
<!--- reproduce this issue; include code to reproduce, if relevant -->
1. Deploy app in Google Play Store Closed Testing track
2. Open app after installing.

## Context
<!--- -->
 I am trying to deploy and soon move into production
## Debug logs
<!-- include iOS / Android logs
- ios XCode logs,
- use #getLog #emailLog methods (@see docs)
- Android: $ adb logcat -s TSLocationManager
-->
<details><summary>Logs</summary>

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java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError: 
  at com.transistorsoft.locationmanager.adapter.TSConfig.getInstance (TSConfig.java)
  at com.transistorsoft.rnbackgroundgeolocation.RNBackgroundGeolocationModule.<init> (RNBackgroundGeolocationModule.java:26)
  at com.transistorsoft.rnbackgroundgeolocation.RNBackgroundGeolocation.createNativeModules (RNBackgroundGeolocation.java:7)
  at com.facebook.react.ReactPackageHelper.getNativeModuleIterator (ReactPackageHelper.java:41)
  at com.facebook.react.NativeModuleRegistryBuilder.processPackage (NativeModuleRegistryBuilder.java:30)
  at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManager.processPackage (ReactInstanceManager.java:34)
  at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManager.processPackages (ReactInstanceManager.java:54)
  at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManager.createReactContext (ReactInstanceManager.java:36)
  at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManager.access$1000 (ReactInstanceManager.java)
  at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManager$5.run (ReactInstanceManager.java:68)
  at java.lang.Thread.run (Thread.java:919)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: 
  at com.transistorsoft.tslocationmanager.Application.FIIdnABGd (Application.java:27)
  at com.transistorsoft.locationmanager.adapter.TSConfig.<clinit> (TSConfig.java:2)
  at com.transistorsoft.locationmanager.adapter.TSConfig.getInstance (TSConfig.java)
  at com.transistorsoft.rnbackgroundgeolocation.RNBackgroundGeolocationModule.<init> (RNBackgroundGeolocationModule.java:26)
  at com.transistorsoft.rnbackgroundgeolocation.RNBackgroundGeolocation.createNativeModules (RNBackgroundGeolocation.java:7)
  at com.facebook.react.ReactPackageHelper.getNativeModuleIterator (ReactPackageHelper.java:41)
  at com.facebook.react.NativeModuleRegistryBuilder.processPackage (NativeModuleRegistryBuilder.java:30)
  at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManager.processPackage (ReactInstanceManager.java:34)
  at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManager.processPackages (ReactInstanceManager.java:54)
  at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManager.createReactContext (ReactInstanceManager.java:36)
  at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManager.access$1000 (ReactInstanceManager.java)
  at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManager$5.run (ReactInstanceManager.java:68)
  at java.lang.Thread.run (Thread.java:919)

[christocracy]

Have you purchased a license?

[juzerdhinoj]

Yes I have.
The purchase was made in August 2020, My order number is #6078.

[christocracy]

Customers should post issues to (and install the plugin from) the private repo.

You deleted Plugin Version from the Issue template. Edit your issue and provide this information.

Your Environment

• Plugin version:

[juzerdhinoj]

Done

[christocracy]

You know that the npm version react-native-background-geolocation gets mirrored from the private repo only about every 3 months?

Also, the latest npm version is 3.9.3

[juzerdhinoj]

okay, I will update the npm version and upload a build.
Will keep you updated with the result after deploying app

[christocracy]

Why are you not installing from the private repo? Latest fixes / new features arrive first in the private repo. The npm version can lag behind by up to 3 months.

[juzerdhinoj]

I think I missed that step.
Can you please redirect me to the guide for it?

[christocracy]

Can you please redirect me to the guide for it?

I posted the link right up there.

[juzerdhinoj]

While trying to install the plugin from the private repo I'm getting an error:

Host key verification failed. 
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

I checked the members as well and I have added myself

[christocracy]

Check your Github ssh config.

[mikehardy]

For what it's worth, I find ssh config tedious in the context of CI pipelines and other developer's machines etc.
I found it easier to do a "Personal Access Token" in github: https://github.com/settings/tokens

Then in package.json my dependency looks like this:

   \\ ...
"react-native-background-geolocation-android": "git+https://<the token here>:[email protected]/transistorsoft/react-native-background-geolocation-android.git#3.9.3",
  \\ ...

And then it is functional everywhere. As with all things security, your security requirements may differ and make this style unacceptable, but if it is acceptable it is quite easy.

[juzerdhinoj]

issue was fixed after installing from the correct repo, and renaming the package name.

Thank you for the guidance @christocracy