react-native-mmkv: Android: error: cannot find symbol MmkvModule.install

I installed this module and successfully used it on iOS. I then preceded with following the steps for setting up android with reanimated installed copying the code from the example. It could not find the module so I had to add it manually by adding

include ':react-native-mmkv'
project(':react-native-mmkv').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-mmkv/android/')

to settings.gradle and in build.gradle adding

implementation project(':react-native-mmkv')

As described here: https://github.com/mrousavy/react-native-mmkv/issues/37

Strangely enough, it had added the code implementation 'com.tencent:mmkv-static:1.0.10' there from before but with that code it simply cannot load the module.

However when I try to build the project in android studio it fails with:

/Users/jakob/coding/my-app/android/app/src/main/java/com/striveapp/StriveJSIPackage.java:17: error: cannot find symbol
        MmkvModule.install(jsContext, reactApplicationContext.getFilesDir().getAbsolutePath() + "/mmkv");
                  ^
  symbol:   method install(JavaScriptContextHolder,String)
  location: class MmkvModule

Am I missing something here? Perhaps the module gets loaded incorrectly and thus cannot run the function? Just a noob with android development here, please tell me if you need some other information.