React-native-notifee: error: package io.invertase.notifee does not exist

[hrishiakhade]

I just installed this library, followed (https://notifee.app/react-native/docs/installation)

In react-native version "react-native": "0.61.3", it worked perfectly .
In "react-native": "0.62.2", worked perfectly on ios too, but when tried to install on Windows , it gave me the following error.

F:\React Native\MotivateMD\mmd-mob\android\app\build\generated\rncli\src\main\java\com\facebook\react\PackageList.java:15: error: package io.invertase.notifee does not exist
import io.invertase.notifee.NotifeePackage;
                           ^
F:\React Native\MotivateMD\mmd-mob\android\app\build\generated\rncli\src\main\java\com\facebook\react\PackageList.java:103: error: cannot find symbol
      new NotifeePackage(),
          ^
  symbol:   class NotifeePackage
  location: class PackageList
Note: F:\React Native\MotivateMD\mmd-mob\android\app\src\debug\java\com\thepremedapp\ReactNativeFlipper.java uses or overrides a deprecated API. 
Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
2 errors

package.json

 "@notifee/react-native": "^0.14.0",
 "react": "16.11.0",
 "react-native": "0.62.2",

React Native Info

System:
    OS: Windows 10 10.0.19041
    CPU: (4) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20GHz      
    Memory: 4.89 GB / 11.92 GB
  Binaries:
    Node: 10.15.2 - E:\node.EXE
    Yarn: 1.22.4 - ~\AppData\Roaming\npm\yarn.CMD
    npm: 6.4.1 - E:\npm.CMD
    Watchman: Not Found
  SDKs:
    Android SDK:
      API Levels: 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
      Build Tools: 23.0.1, 28.0.3, 29.0.2
      Android NDK: Not Found
    Windows SDK: Not Found

[mikehardy]

Interesting. I wonder if your auto-linking is not set up correctly somehow.
Seeing your android/build.gradle and android/app/build.gradle files might be instructive.
I'm not sure if this work on Windows (perhaps it will with Windows Subsystem for Linux?) but I have a script that shows correct integration and works on linux and macOS at least. I haven't tried it on windows but we have not had any complaints yet so I suspect this is project specific - https://github.com/mikehardy/rnfbdemo/blob/master/notifee-demo.sh

You can verify if it is the module or your project by making a new project with nothing but notifee and testing it - I think this is the right series of commands that will work from scratch assuming you have npx in your path. I use yarn normally but npm is built in so should work if I got the command correct

npx react-native init NotifeeTest
cd NotifeeTest
npm i @notifee/react-native
npx react-native run-android

[hrishiakhade]

@mikehardy maybe you are right, this might be a project-specific and OS-specific issue. Worked well in the same project on Mac, but did not work on Windows.
I tried this library in a new project with the same react-native version , it worked as expected.

Any ideas what could the issue in my project which is giving me this error ?

[mikehardy]

It's possible we have an error that is WIndows-specific, I'm looking at it from that angle as a strong possibility if we can eliminate project-specific problems.

You confirm you ran your exact same project, no changes from source control, and it worked on macOS but not Windows, correct? If correct, then I need to set up a windows test rig and reproduce it

[hrishiakhade]

@mikehardy Yes, same project worked on macOS without any changes from source control but not windows.
Do u have any probable solution for now which can be implemented in my project ?

[mikehardy]

Very strange, I just brought up a react-native development environment on win10 and doing a react-native init on a new project followed by a npm install of this library and then a npm run android all worked fine. I was able to use the notifee API to pop up a notification via a small change to the example App.js and everything. So I can't reproduce. I'd encourage you to try an empty project from init as a test to see if it works for you too.

[hrishiakhade]

@mikehardy yes I tried in init project , it's working . But it not working in my existing project. Don't know what could be issue

[mikehardy]

@hrishiakhade unfortunately if I can't reproduce this I can't fix it - if you can demonstrate the problem starting with react-native init I can look at it again and try to help

[AdamJB]

Hello, I'm seeing the same issue after upgrading Notifee from 0.9.1 to 0.14.0. I'm using React Native 0.63.3, and running this on a Mac. 0.9.1 worked fine for me, but 0.14.0 won't build on Android with the same error the OP mentioned.
Another error worth noting from Android Studio is:

ERROR: The module 'notifee_react-native' is an Android project without build variants, and cannot be built.
Please fix the module's configuration in the build.gradle file and sync the project again.

[mikehardy]

I wish I could help, however my last comment stands and I don't have anything actionable:

unfortunately if I can't reproduce this I can't fix it - if you can demonstrate the problem starting with react-native init I can look at it again and try to help

[AdamJB]

I'm able to reproduce it locally on a fresh install of react native. I added all my dependencies and figured out that using OneSignal was causing this build problem.
Adding apply plugin: 'com.onesignal.androidsdk.onesignal-gradle-plugin' to the top of my app/build.gradle causes the error. I hope this helps in resolving the problem.

[mikehardy]

That's good information, but I'm not sure how we can manage a problem caused by the onesignal gradle plugin. I believe there was someone else with this problem and they achieved successful onesignal integration without the plugin even ? We changed our docs in response: https://github.com/notifee/documentation/commit/7249b1d497b7dac9765677642aae970c09cb93b7