installing for Android

[milobob]

Could not get unknown property 'background_geolocation'

I am able to get the react-native-background-geolocation working on iOS, but I'm trying to compile for Android and having issues. I think it has to do with gradle settings, which are somewhat of a black box

My Environment

• Plugin version: 4.12.1
• Platform: Android
• OS version: API 34
• Device manufacturer / model: Android emulator
• React Native version (react-native -v): 0.72.3
• Plugin config

  
  apply plugin: "com.android.application"
  apply plugin: "com.facebook.react"

/**

• This is the configuration block to customize your React Native Android app.

• By default you don't need to apply any configuration, just uncomment the lines you need. / react { / Folders */ // The root of your project, i.e. where "package.json" lives. Default is '..' // root = file("../") // The folder where the react-native NPM package is. Default is ../node_modules/react-native // reactNativeDir = file("../node_modules/react-native") // The folder where the react-native Codegen package is. Default is ../node_modules/@react-native/codegen // codegenDir = file("../node_modules/@react-native/codegen") // The cli.js file which is the React Native CLI entrypoint. Default is ../node_modules/react-native/cli.js // cliFile = file("../node_modules/react-native/cli.js")

  / Variants / // The list of variants to that are debuggable. For those we're going to // skip the bundling of the JS bundle and the assets. By default is just 'debug'. // If you add flavors like lite, prod, etc. you'll have to list your debuggableVariants. // debuggableVariants = ["liteDebug", "prodDebug"]

  / Bundling / // A list containing the node command and its flags. Default is just 'node'. // nodeExecutableAndArgs = ["node"] // // The command to run when bundling. By default is 'bundle' // bundleCommand = "ram-bundle" // // The path to the CLI configuration file. Default is empty. // bundleConfig = file(../rn-cli.config.js) // // The name of the generated asset file containing your JS bundle // bundleAssetName = "MyApplication.android.bundle" // // The entry file for bundle generation. Default is 'index.android.js' or 'index.js' // entryFile = file("../js/MyApplication.android.js") // // A list of extra flags to pass to the 'bundle' commands. // See https://github.com/react-native-community/cli/blob/main/docs/commands.md#bundle // extraPackagerArgs = []

  / Hermes Commands / // The hermes compiler command to run. By default it is 'hermesc' // hermesCommand = "$rootDir/my-custom-hermesc/bin/hermesc" // // The list of flags to pass to the Hermes compiler. By default is "-O", "-output-source-map" // hermesFlags = ["-O", "-output-source-map"] }

/**

• Set this to true to Run Proguard on Release builds to minify the Java bytecode. */ def enableProguardInReleaseBuilds = false

/**

• The preferred build flavor of JavaScriptCore (JSC)
• For example, to use the international variant, you can use:
• def jscFlavor = 'org.webkit:android-jsc-intl:+'
• The international variant includes ICU i18n library and necessary data
• allowing to use e.g. Date.toLocaleString and String.localeCompare that
• give correct results when using with locales other than en-US. Note that
• this variant is about 6MiB larger per architecture than default. */ def jscFlavor = 'org.webkit:android-jsc:+'

android { ndkVersion rootProject.ext.ndkVersion

compileSdkVersion rootProject.ext.compileSdkVersion

namespace "com.REMOVEDFORPRIVACY"
defaultConfig {
    applicationId "com.REMOVEDFORPRIVACY"
    minSdkVersion rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
    targetSdkVersion rootProject.ext.targetSdkVersion
    versionCode 1
    versionName "1.0"
    missingDimensionStrategy 'react-native-camera', 'general'
}
signingConfigs {
    debug {
        storeFile file('debug.keystore')
        storePassword 'android'
        keyAlias 'androiddebugkey'
        keyPassword 'android'
    }
}
buildTypes {
    debug {
        signingConfig signingConfigs.debug
    }
    release {
        // Caution! In production, you need to generate your own keystore file.
        // see https://reactnative.dev/docs/signed-apk-android.
        signingConfig signingConfigs.debug
        minifyEnabled enableProguardInReleaseBuilds
        proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile("proguard-android.txt"), "proguard-rules.pro"
        proguardFiles "${background_geolocation.projectDir}/proguard-rules.pro"
    }
}

}

dependencies { // The version of react-native is set by the React Native Gradle Plugin implementation("com.facebook.react:react-android")

debugImplementation("com.facebook.flipper:flipper:${FLIPPER_VERSION}")
debugImplementation("com.facebook.flipper:flipper-network-plugin:${FLIPPER_VERSION}") {
    exclude group:'com.squareup.okhttp3', module:'okhttp'
}

debugImplementation("com.facebook.flipper:flipper-fresco-plugin:${FLIPPER_VERSION}")
if (hermesEnabled.toBoolean()) {
    implementation("com.facebook.react:hermes-android")
} else {
    implementation jscFlavor
}

}

apply from: file("../../node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-android/native_modules.gradle"); applyNativeModulesAppBuildGradle(project)

Project background_geolocation = project(':react-native-background-geolocation') apply from: "${background_geolocation.projectDir}/app.gradle"

## Expected Behavior
Compiles and runs on emulator

## Actual Behavior
When I try react-native run-android, it starts building and installing, but then crashes with "Command failed with exit code 1"

## Steps to Reproduce
reproduce this issue; include code to reproduce, if relevant 
1. follow help guide at https://github.com/transistorsoft/react-native-background-geolocation/blob/master/README.md

## Context
Migrate app from iOS to Android

## Debug logs
One thing that was weird is Android studio does not seem to like the line
`Project background_geolocation = project(':react-native-background-geolocation')
`
Although this line was suggested by transistorsoft in the readme, Android Studio is throwing an error of "Cannot resolve symbol 'Project'" in the app\build.grade file 

I'm probably missing something simple because I am completely new to Android development, any help would be much appreciated
<details><summary>Logs</summary>

error Failed to install the app. Command failed with exit code 1: gradlew.bat tasks FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. Where: Build file 'C:\Users\REMOVEDFORPRIVACY\Documents\REMOVEDFORPRIVACY\REMOVEDFORPRIVACY\android\app\build.gradle' line: 103 What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating project ':app'. > Could not get unknown property 'background_geolocation' for BuildType$AgpDecorated_Decorated{name=release, debuggable=false, testCoverageEnabled=false, jniDebuggable=false, pseudoLocalesEnabled=false, renderscriptDebuggable=false, renderscriptOptimLevel=3, minifyEnabled=false, zipAlignEnabled=true, signingConfig=SigningConfig$AgpDecorated_Decorated{name=debug, storeFile=C:\Users\REMOVEDFORPRIVACY\Documents\REMOVEDFORPRIVACY\REMOVEDFORPRIVACY\android\app\debug.keystore, storePassword=android, keyAlias=androiddebugkey, keyPassword=android, storeType=pkcs12, v1SigningEnabled=true, v2SigningEnabled=true, enableV1Signing=null, enableV2Signing=null, enableV3Signin g=null, enableV4Signing=null}, embedMicroApp=true, mBuildConfigFields={}, mResValues={}, mProguardFiles=[C:\Users\REMOVEDFORPRIVACY\Documents\REMOVEDFORPRIVACY\REMOVEDFORPRIVACY\android\app\build\intermediates\default_proguard_files\global\proguard-android.txt-7 .4.2, C:\Users\REMOVEDFORPRIVACY\Documents\REMOVEDFORPRIVACY\REMOVEDFORPRIVACY\android\app\proguard-rules.pro], mConsumerProguardFiles=[], mManifestPlaceholders={}} of type com.android.build.gradle.internal.dsl.BuildType$AgpDecorated. Try: > Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. > Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. > Run with --scan to get full insights. Get more help at https://help.gradle.org BUILD FAILED in 35s

Task :gradle-plugin:compileKotlin UP-TO-DATE > Task :gradle-plugin:compileJava NO-SOURCE > Task :gradle-plugin:pluginDescriptors UP-TO-DATE > Task :gradle-plugin:processResources UP-TO-DATE > Task :gradle-plugin:classes UP-TO-DATE > Task :gradle-plugin:jar UP-TO-DATE > Task :gradle-plugin:inspectClassesForKotlinIC UP-TO-DATE 5 actionable tasks: 5 up-to-date.

</details>

[christocracy]

OS version: API 34

I have not yet released api 34 support.

[Jorge-Luis-Rangel-Peralta]

This is still happening with this api version:

buildToolsVersion = "33.0.0" minSdkVersion = 21 compileSdkVersion = 33 targetSdkVersion = 33

Is there something that I could do?, I am using react native 0.72.5

[christocracy]

Create for me a simple HelloWorld app that reproduces this. Push to a public GitHub repository and share the url here.

[Jorge-Luis-Rangel-Peralta]

Hi, I did create the repo: https://github.com/Jorge-Luis-Rangel-Peralta/example-background-geolocation-rn-0.72.5/commits/main but it works and I found a typo in my config, the repo has the steps I followed to config, thanks!

[christocracy]

So you solved your problem?

[Jorge-Luis-Rangel-Peralta]

It is still compiling on the server but probably it is solved, I will confirm you both when the server reports back

[christocracy]

What was your mistake?

[Jorge-Luis-Rangel-Peralta]

All solved, the mistake was:

https://github.com/transistorsoft/react-native-background-geolocation/blob/HEAD/help/INSTALL-ANDROID-AUTO.md#open_file_folder-androidappbuildgradle // background-geolocation Project background_geolocation = project(':react-native-background-geolocation') apply from: "${background_geolocation.projectDir}/app.gradle"

Forgot the // before https and the error was almost in the same place as the report above that is why I thought was the same