react-native-firebase install - package io.invertase.firebase does not exist? - react-native-firebase

Question

I am getting the following issues when running "react-native run-android" in my project. I've gone through the react-native-firebase per normal but in this case I can't quite see what I might have done wrong?
:app:incrementalDebugJavaCompilationSafeguard UP-TO-DATE
:app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac
:app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac - is not incremental (e.g. outputs have changed, no previous execution, etc.).
/source/myapp/android/app/src/main/java/com/gctodo/MainApplication.java:11: error: package io.invertase.firebase does not exist
import io.invertase.firebase.RNFirebasePackage;
^
/source/myapp/android/app/src/main/java/com/gctodo/MainApplication.java:12: error: package io.invertase.firebase.auth does not exist
import io.invertase.firebase.auth.RNFirebaseAuthPackage;
^
/source/myapp/android/app/src/main/java/com/gctodo/MainApplication.java:13: error: package io.invertase.firebase.firestore does not exist
import io.invertase.firebase.firestore.RNFirebaseFirestorePackage;
^
/source/myapp/android/app/src/main/java/com/gctodo/MainApplication.java:30: error: cannot find symbol
new RNFirebasePackage(),
^
symbol: class RNFirebasePackage
/source/myapp/android/app/src/main/java/com/gctodo/MainApplication.java:31: error: cannot find symbol
new RNFirebaseAuthPackage(),
^
symbol: class RNFirebaseAuthPackage
/source/myapp/android/app/src/main/java/com/gctodo/MainApplication.java:32: error: cannot find symbol
new RNFirebaseFirestorePackage()
^
symbol: class RNFirebaseFirestorePackage
6 errors
:app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac FAILED
MainApplication.java is for exampe:
package com.gctodo;
import android.app.Application;
import com.facebook.react.ReactApplication;
import com.facebook.react.ReactNativeHost;
import com.facebook.react.ReactPackage;
import com.facebook.react.shell.MainReactPackage;
import com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader;
import io.invertase.firebase.RNFirebasePackage;
import io.invertase.firebase.auth.RNFirebaseAuthPackage;
import io.invertase.firebase.firestore.RNFirebaseFirestorePackage;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
public class MainApplication extends Application implements ReactApplication {
private final ReactNativeHost mReactNativeHost = new ReactNativeHost(this) {
#Override
public boolean getUseDeveloperSupport() {
return BuildConfig.DEBUG;
}
#Override
protected List<ReactPackage> getPackages() {
return Arrays.<ReactPackage>asList(
new MainReactPackage(),
new RNFirebasePackage(),
new RNFirebaseAuthPackage(),
new RNFirebaseFirestorePackage()
);
}
#Override
protected String getJSMainModuleName() {
return "index";
}
};
#Override
public ReactNativeHost getReactNativeHost() {
return mReactNativeHost;
}
#Override
public void onCreate() {
super.onCreate();
SoLoader.init(this, /* native exopackage */ false);
}
}

Answer 1

It appears that RNFirebasePackage is missing and cannot be found during compile step.
Try running
react-native link
after install, followed by clean and then run the build.

Answer 2

running react-native link did not work for me. I had to delete the android and ios project folders and then ran
react-native eject
which recreated both the ios and android folders. I was able to run the builds now.

Answer 3

For anyone else that gets stuck here, I needed to do npm i #react-native-firebase/messaging