react-native-maps: Android app crashes after adding the react-native-maps dependency

#2880 Bug

We have created a demo app with react-native-maps dependency. The project is a simple one and doesn’t really render a map, but we have noticed that just after adding the dependancy the app started crashing in Android platform.

Here is a video reference of what is going on:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=11eZIEMjMEoOgQViVRS_JhTqHWu-Lnytk

Environment info

React native info output:

 React Native Environment Info:
    System:
      OS: macOS 10.14.3
      CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz
      Memory: 5.60 GB / 16.00 GB
      Shell: 5.3 - /bin/zsh
    Binaries:
      Node: 10.8.0 - /usr/local/bin/node
      Yarn: 1.15.2 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
      npm: 6.2.0 - /usr/local/bin/npm
      Watchman: 4.9.0 - /usr/local/bin/watchman
    SDKs:
      iOS SDK:
        Platforms: iOS 12.2, macOS 10.14, tvOS 12.2, watchOS 5.2
      Android SDK:
        API Levels: 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28
        Build Tools: 23.0.1, 23.0.2, 25.0.0, 25.0.2, 25.0.3, 26.0.1, 26.0.2, 26.0.3, 27.0.0, 27.0.1, 27.0.3, 28.0.2, 28.0.3, 29.0.0, 29.0.0
        System Images: android-19 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-21 | Intel x86 Atom, android-22 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-23 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-26 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-27 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-P | Google Play Intel x86 Atom, android-Q | Google Play Intel x86 Atom, android-Q | Google Play Intel x86 Atom_64
    IDEs:
      Android Studio: 3.4 AI-183.6156.11.34.5522156
      Xcode: 10.2.1/10E1001 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
    npmPackages:
      react: 16.8.3 => 16.8.3 
      react-native: 0.59.8 => 0.59.8 
    npmGlobalPackages:
      react-native-cli: 2.0.1

Library version: ^0.24.2

Steps To Reproduce

 Run it first time it’ll work.

`yarn add react-native-maps`
`react-native link`

Delete the app

Run it again

Broken

Describe what you expected to happen:

The app should not crash on launch
After giving the location permission the app should not crash

Reproducible sample code

Here is the full project code:

https://bitbucket.org/abhideep_appdukan/locationtest/src/master/

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 5 years ago
Comments: 20

Most upvoted comments

You can look at abd logcat to see the native crash report as you open the app. That could help us figure out what the issue is. However, I was also recently getting a lot of crashes for devices on the latest version of Android and Crashlytics reported this crash:

Fatal Exception: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
Failed resolution of: Lorg/apache/http/ProtocolVersion;

This is an issue with the underlying maps library. Also see this official documentation from Google.

The solution: put this in the Manifest <application> tag:

<uses-library android:name="org.apache.http.legacy" android:required="false"/>

It might not be your issue, but it would be easy to try 😃

+111

noahtallen on May 25, 2019

This issue is fixed in the latest update of react-native-maps.

+28

abhideepmallick on Sep 25, 2019

The solution: put this in the Manifest <application> tag:
<uses-library android:name="org.apache.http.legacy" android:required="false"/>
It might not be your issue, but it would be easy to try 😃

Worked perfectly 👍

+10

joaopedrodcf on Sep 11, 2019

Hi my apk keeps crashing when i am trying to navigate to the screen that uses react-native-maps. What should i do?

karimdakroury on Feb 2, 2021

Having this issue in a managed Expo App, maps version 0.26.1 and I can’t modify my manifest…

Kindly follow the configurations steps mentioned in the below link https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/map-view/

Balaji2810 on Oct 14, 2021

I having issue with latest version. I tried above solution but it is still crashing.

Its working now. I just clean gradlew and it works now.

TheChanDI on Jan 26, 2021

you should not run react-native link by itself, you need to use it with the package you want to link react-native link react-native-maps

rborn on May 23, 2019