React-native: App crashes at starup on Android - No static method loadLibrary(Ljava/lang/String;)V in class Lcom/facebook/soloader/SoLoader;

[cristianonescu]

Environment

React Native Environment Info:
System:
OS: macOS Sierra 10.12.6
CPU: x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770HQ CPU @ 2.20GHz
Memory: 71.63 MB / 16.00 GB
Shell: 3.2.57 - /bin/bash
Binaries:
Node: 10.6.0 - /usr/local/bin/node
Yarn: 1.1.0 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
npm: 6.1.0 - /usr/local/bin/npm
Watchman: 4.9.0 - /usr/local/bin/watchman
SDKs:
iOS SDK:
Platforms: iOS 11.2, macOS 10.13, tvOS 11.2, watchOS 4.2
Android SDK:
Build Tools: 21.1.2, 23.0.1, 23.0.2, 23.0.3, 24.0.1, 24.0.2, 24.0.3, 25.0.0, 25.0.1, 25.0.2, 25.0.3, 26.0.1, 26.0.2, 27.0.0, 27.0.1, 27.0.2, 27.0.3
API Levels: 15, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27
IDEs:
Android Studio: 3.0 AI-171.4443003
Xcode: 9.2/9C40b - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
npmPackages:
react: 16.4.1 => 16.4.1
react-native: ^0.56.0 => 0.56.0
npmGlobalPackages:
react-native-cli: 2.0.1

Description

The app build successfully in debug and release in android but crashes on starting.

E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: Thread-2
Process: com.hys, PID: 23200
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: No static method loadLibrary(Ljava/lang/String;)V in class Lcom/facebook/soloader/SoLoader; or its super classes (declaration of ‘com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader’ appears in /data/app/com.hys-vH4Q2uE5DrP5sdxI8aPjcA==/base.apk)
at com.facebook.react.bridge.ReactBridge.staticInit(ReactBridge.java:20)
at com.facebook.react.bridge.NativeMap.(NativeMap.java:21)
at com.facebook.react.bridge.JSCJavaScriptExecutorFactory.create(JSCJavaScriptExecutorFactory.java:23)
at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManager$5.run(ReactInstanceManager.java:921)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:764)

Reproducible Demo

Just try to setup a new project.

[cristianonescu]

20251 for an overview of the issue

solution:

implementation 'com.facebook.fresco:fresco:1.9.0'
implementation 'com.facebook.fresco:animated-gif:1.9.0'
// IN CASE YOU NEED WEBP SUPPORT / MAKE SURE TO CHANGE THIS TOO TO 1.9.0
implementation 'com.facebook.fresco:animated-webp:1.9.0'
implementation 'com.facebook.fresco:webpsupport:1.9.0'

closing this for now.