[Android] NativeModule: AsyncStorage is null when try autolinking.

[azamiya]

Current behavior

yarn add @react-native-community/async-storage and react-native run-andoid

and this error is shown.

Hint

When I link it manually, https://github.com/react-native-community/async-storage/blob/LEGACY/docs/Linking.md#android

it works fine.

but this error is shown on the console.

error React Native CLI uses autolinking for native dependencies, but the following modules are linked manually:
  - @react-native-community/async-storage (to unlink run: "react-native unlink @react-native-community/async-storage")
This is likely happening when upgrading React Native from below 0.60 to 0.60 or above. Going forward, you can unlink this dependency via "react-native unlink <dependency>" and it will be included in your app automatically. If a library isn't compatible with autolinking, disregard this message and notify the library maintainers.
Read more about autolinking: https://github.com/react-native-community/cli/blob/master/docs/autolinking.md
info Running jetifier to migrate libraries to AndroidX. You can disable it using "--no-jetifier" flag.

Expected behavior

autolinking works.

Repro steps

1. yarn add @react-native-community/async-storage
2. react-native run-andoid

Environment

• Async Storage version : 1.6.1
• React-Native version: 0.60.5
• Platform tested: Android

[krizzu]

You can read me about autolinking here.

Did you update from the previous version of RN or is it a new project?

[Jakuubzmeko]

I have this problem as well, I hav ethis problem since RN 0.59, so I upgraded to 0.60 thinking it would solve the problem, but didn't.

I tried to remove build, clean project and caches, but still nothing.

[krizzu]

Autolinking works on Android by changing the way it's requiring the Native packages. Have a look at RN 0.60 MainApplication.java.

@jakuubzmeko Any more details? 0.59 do have autolinking feature - you have to do it through CLI or manually.

[Jakuubzmeko]

@Krizzu I have RN 0.65,

• upgraded files as in upgrade helper on official website, so i dont have ani packages or imports from external libraries other than specified in mentioned file by you
• unlinked manually all libraries
• cleared caches, deleted build file, cleaned project

I don't know whether I should see these packages in android studio, should I ?

[Jakuubzmeko]

I linked the libraries manualy, async-storage, gesture-handler and google-sign-in, and it works fine. Either they dont support autolinking, or autolinking doesn't work at my project

[royhanrahim]

Do you have to be linked to run this library ?? isn't it for react-native@0.60.5 no need to link ?? if I error in IOS

[krizzu]

@Jakuubzmeko What's the content of your MainApplication.java?

[Jakuubzmeko]

@Krizzu It was the same, so I wanted to show you, so I unlinked them again, and edited the MainApplication.java then I ran it and it works just fine. What I think happend, that i did not unlink them properly before by react-native unlink, but just removed references from build.gradle and MainApplication.java. So maybe linking and unlinking helped. Still wandering what happened.

[ianmcgregor]

Got the same error. Doing a cd android/ && ./gradlew clean before run-android fixed autolinking for me.

[trungnguyencmu]

Show add new AsyncStoragePackage()); in MainApplication.java https://github.com/react-native-community/async-storage/blob/LEGACY/docs/Linking.md#android