React-native-push-notification: Does not work on fresh react native build (Android)

[glocore]

I've been struggling to make this work on one of my projects, I've tried on a clean react native project with no luck. I've been testing on Android. What am I missing? Please help!
Here's the link: https://github.com/platonish/rn-push-notif-demo

react-native: 0.57.5
react-native-push-notification: 3.1.2

[glocore]

here's the android logcat:

11-21 14:56:58.178 16838 16875 I ReactNativeJS: notif
11-21 14:56:58.197 16838 16876 W ResourceType: No package identifier when getting value for resource number 0x00000000
11-21 14:56:58.197 16838 16876 W RNPushNotification: Unable to find com.dieam.reactnativepushnotification.notification_color in manifest. Falling back to default
11-21 14:56:58.207 16838 16876 E RNPushNotification: failed to send push notification
11-21 14:56:58.207 16838 16876 E RNPushNotification: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
11-21 14:56:58.207 16838 16876 E RNPushNotification:    at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:2009)
11-21 14:56:58.207 16838 16876 E RNPushNotification:    at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1951)
11-21 14:56:58.207 16838 16876 E RNPushNotification:    at android.app.INotificationManager$Stub$Proxy.createNotificationChannels(INotificationManager.java:1587)
11-21 14:56:58.207 16838 16876 E RNPushNotification:    at android.app.NotificationManager.createNotificationChannels(NotificationManager.java:453)
11-21 14:56:58.207 16838 16876 E RNPushNotification:    at android.app.NotificationManager.createNotificationChannel(NotificationManager.java:441)
11-21 14:56:58.207 16838 16876 E RNPushNotification:    at com.dieam.reactnativepushnotification.modules.RNPushNotificationHelper.checkOrCreateChannel(RNPushNotificationHelper.java:577)
11-21 14:56:58.207 16838 16876 E RNPushNotification:    at com.dieam.reactnativepushnotification.modules.RNPushNotificationHelper.sendToNotificationCentre(RNPushNotificationHelper.java:326)
11-21 14:56:58.207 16838 16876 E RNPushNotification:    at com.dieam.reactnativepushnotification.modules.RNPushNotification.presentLocalNotification(RNPushNotification.java:156)
11-21 14:56:58.207 16838 16876 E RNPushNotification:    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
11-21 14:56:58.207 16838 16876 E RNPushNotification:    at com.facebook.react.bridge.JavaMethodWrapper.invoke(JavaMethodWrapper.java:372)
11-21 14:56:58.207 16838 16876 E RNPushNotification:    at com.facebook.react.bridge.JavaModuleWrapper.invoke(JavaModuleWrapper.java:160)
11-21 14:56:58.207 16838 16876 E RNPushNotification:    at com.facebook.react.bridge.queue.NativeRunnable.run(Native Method)
11-21 14:56:58.207 16838 16876 E RNPushNotification:    at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:790)
11-21 14:56:58.207 16838 16876 E RNPushNotification:    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
11-21 14:56:58.207 16838 16876 E RNPushNotification:    at com.facebook.react.bridge.queue.MessageQueueThreadHandler.dispatchMessage(MessageQueueThreadHandler.java:29)
11-21 14:56:58.207 16838 16876 E RNPushNotification:    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164)
11-21 14:56:58.207 16838 16876 E RNPushNotification:    at com.facebook.react.bridge.queue.MessageQueueThreadImpl$3.run(MessageQueueThreadImpl.java:192)
11-21 14:56:58.207 16838 16876 E RNPushNotification:    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:764)

[glocore]

turns out I was missing this from my AndroidManifest:

<application ....>
<meta-data  android:name="com.dieam.reactnativepushnotification.notification_channel_name"
                android:value="YOUR NOTIFICATION CHANNEL NAME"/>
<meta-data  android:name="com.dieam.reactnativepushnotification.notification_channel_description"
                android:value="YOUR NOTIFICATION CHANNEL DESCRIPTION"/>

[glocore]

For anyone who's facing issues with an older version of this package, try updating to the latest version, That to work for me.

[abonander]

This shouldn't be closed as RNPN is supposed to fallback to sane defaults when these aren't supplied.

I have a fix in #956

[ThomasStubbe]

I have the same problem, although I only use localNotifications... This should not be needed (according to the readme...)