Unresolved reference: facebook

[dhananjayspeed]

Description

Unable to create native module and android studio showing error "Unresolved reference: facebook"

Packages

• create-react-native-library
• react-native-builder-bob

Selected options

Execution failed for task ':generateDebugRFile'.

Could not resolve all files for configuration ':debugCompileClasspath'.
Could not find com.facebook.react:react-native:.
Required by:
project :

Link to repro

No response

Environment

System:
OS: macOS 13.0.1
CPU: (8) x64 Apple M1
Memory: 27.35 MB / 16.00 GB
Shell: 5.8.1 - /bin/zsh
Binaries:
Node: 14.17.6 - /usr/local/bin/node
Yarn: 1.22.19 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
npm: 9.1.1 - /usr/local/bin/npm
Watchman: Not Found
Managers:
CocoaPods: 1.11.3 - /usr/local/bin/pod
SDKs:
iOS SDK:
Platforms: DriverKit 22.2, iOS 16.2, macOS 13.1, tvOS 16.1, watchOS 9.1
Android SDK: Not Found
IDEs:
Android Studio: 2021.3 AI-213.7172.25.2113.9123335
Xcode: 14.2/14C18 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
Languages:
Java: 15.0.2 - /usr/bin/javac
npmPackages:
@react-native-community/cli: Not Found
react: 18.2.0 => 18.2.0
react-native: 0.71.1 => 0.71.1
react-native-macos: Not Found

[babeone]

I have the same issue, any solution? Thanks :)

[Sunbreak]

Probably duplicate of #361, fixed by #362

Try add + back

   // For < 0.71, this will be from the local maven repo
   // For > 0.71, this will be replaced by `com.facebook.react:react-android:$version` by react gradle plugin
   //noinspection GradleDynamicVersion
-  implementation "com.facebook.react:react-native"
+  implementation "com.facebook.react:react-native:+"

[chandreshgroww]

@Sunbreak tried your approach of adding + but it is not working, still getting unresolved reference: facebook

I have built a clean project from create-react-native-library@latest, any suggestions?

[Sunbreak]

@Sunbreak tried your approach of adding + but it is not working, still getting unresolved reference: facebook

I have built a clean project from create-react-native-library@latest, any suggestions?

Could you share you clean project?

[chandreshgroww]

@Sunbreak I haven't done any modification in the project created from npx create-react-native-library@latest my-lib

and performed yarn

then opened the android folder present in root (not in example folder)

and it shows unresolved reference: facebook

[Sunbreak]

@Sunbreak I haven't done any modification in the project created from npx create-react-native-library@latest my-lib

and performed yarn

then opened the android folder present in root (not in example folder)

and it shows unresolved reference: facebook

Could you shared you code?

Different environment would use different version of create-react-native-library and generate different yarn.lock, especially react-native version

I've got 3 macOS, 1 Linux and 1 Windows PC. None of them use the same version of Nodejs/create-react-native-library/react-antive version when calling npx create-react-native-library@latest my-lib

[RalissonMattias]

I was getting the same issue so I used this com.facebook.react:react-android:+ instead of com.facebook.react:react-native:+. Detail, my React Native version is 0.71.3

[Sunbreak]

I was getting the same issue so I used this com.facebook.react:react-android:+ instead of com.facebook.react:react-native:+. Detail, my React Native version is 0.71.3

Yep. That's the point.

Summary

Fix #361 which is introduced by 4eff3eb

According to outage postmortem, we could revert the noinspection version + back for react-native@0.70.*

Test plan

The outage postmortem shows why 0.71.3 use react-android instead of react-native

[reyn-nova]

@dhananjayspeed @babeone @chandreshgroww

in android/buid.gradle (Root, not from example folder) I downgraded com.android.tools.build:gradle to this version

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.5.3'

then press Gradle Sync,
in what I have tried solve facebook import

[reyn-nova]

no more facebook import reference error

[pasquale95]

The suggestion from @Sunbreak solved the issue for me. In addition, I had to add the following line to gradle.properties:

org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4096M -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=512m