react-native-gesture-handler: Build fails on Android. RNGestureHandlerPackage not found

Description

I’m trying to build my app for android by doing ./gradlew bundlerelease, but I am getting errors. (See below for details)

Steps To Reproduce

  1. Follow installation instructions here: https://docs.swmansion.com/react-native-gesture-handler/docs/#installation
  2. Try to build the android app by doing ./gradlew bundlerelease

Expected behavior

App builds successfully

Actual behavior

App does not build.

Getting the following error:

> Task :app:compileReleaseJavaWithJavac FAILED
/Users/humad-home/tvproject-mobile/android/app/src/main/java/com/serializdmobile/MainApplication.java:11: error: cannot find symbol
import com.swmansion.gesturehandler.RNGestureHandlerPackage;
                                   ^
  symbol:   class RNGestureHandlerPackage
  location: package com.swmansion.gesturehandler
/Users/humad-home/tvproject-mobile/android/app/src/main/java/com/serializdmobile/MainApplication.java:12: error: cannot find symbol
import com.swmansion.gesturehandler.RNGestureHandlerPackage;
                                   ^
  symbol:   class RNGestureHandlerPackage
  location: package com.swmansion.gesturehandler
/Users/humad-home/tvproject-mobile/android/app/src/main/java/com/serializdmobile/MainApplication.java:13: error: cannot find symbol
import com.swmansion.gesturehandler.RNGestureHandlerPackage;
                                   ^
  symbol:   class RNGestureHandlerPackage
  location: package com.swmansion.gesturehandler
/Users/humad-home/tvproject-mobile/android/app/src/main/java/com/serializdmobile/MainApplication.java:14: error: cannot find symbol
import com.swmansion.gesturehandler.RNGestureHandlerPackage;
                                   ^
  symbol:   class RNGestureHandlerPackage
  location: package com.swmansion.gesturehandler
/Users/humad-home/tvproject-mobile/android/app/build/generated/rncli/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/PackageList.java:33: error: cannot find symbol
import com.swmansion.gesturehandler.RNGestureHandlerPackage;
                                   ^
  symbol:   class RNGestureHandlerPackage
  location: package com.swmansion.gesturehandler
/Users/humad-home/tvproject-mobile/android/app/build/generated/rncli/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/PackageList.java:104: error: cannot find symbol
      new RNGestureHandlerPackage(),
          ^
  symbol:   class RNGestureHandlerPackage
  location: class PackageList
Note: /Users/humad-home/tvproject-mobile/android/app/src/main/java/com/serializdmobile/MainActivity.java uses or overrides a deprecated API.
Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
6 errors

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

Package versions

  • React: 16.13.1
  • React Native: 0.63.4
  • React Native Gesture Handler: git://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-gesture-handler.git#5572e8d65d73889f0bdb91f5aaa33cc1958971cd
    (For React Native Gesture Handler, I’m on the above commit which fixes modal issues)

Other notes

This is only an issue with Android. The iOS app builds perfectly. I was able to build the Android app a few days ago. Not sure why it has stopped building now. I can’t find anything in my project’s commit history that indicates a breaking change.

About this issue

  • Original URL
  • State: closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Reactions: 1
  • Comments: 18

Most upvoted comments

npm install --save react-native-gesture-handler

npx pod-install ios

+9
Shiva207892 on Sep 8, 2022

In case others are as blind and stupid as I was, this is what the problem was (for us): We hadn’t read the docs thoroughly enough 🤦‍♀️ and didn’t update the MainActivity.java as instructed for migration to rn-gesture-handler 2: https://docs.swmansion.com/react-native-gesture-handler/docs/guides/upgrading-to-2 https://docs.swmansion.com/react-native-gesture-handler/docs/guides/migrating-off-rnghenabledroot/

And as we are using rn-gesture-handler along with React Navigation, we also needed to do this is needed as well, because otherwise the app did not “work correctly” as mentioned said here.

+4
veb-ioki on Aug 31, 2022

Fixed it one time by: npm install this repo npx jetify

But now I get the same error again Bildschirmfoto 2021-11-02 um 19 40 10

+4
mwegener-com on Nov 2, 2021

Same issue only in Android. Using react-native-gesture-handler 2.5.0 with react-native 0.65.

I install fresh package with npm install react-native-gesture-handler, then npx jetify, but I still have the issue cannot find symbol. import com.swmansion.gesturehandler.RNGestureHandlerPackage in my PackageList.java

+3
erickcrus on Dec 6, 2022

Hey, I noticed the same issue when I downloaded the package with Yarn. I deleted the entire node_modules directory and then reinstalled it (npm install). Now it works fine. As far as I understand, the main problem is with Yarn. I used npm before, and in this case, I installed the package with Yarn.

If you have used npm before, try installing the new package with npm (don’t use Yarn), and your app will build successfully.

+2
BiigBan on Sep 13, 2023

This is still an issue with react-native-gesture-handler 2.6.0. Exact same build failure.

+2
veb-ioki on Aug 29, 2022

Did anyone find a real solution for this? (or this https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-gesture-handler/issues/1707)

We have the same issue when trying to update from 2.2.0 to 2.5.0, Android build fails with:

/Users/<xxx>/<xxx>/<xxx>/android/app/src/main/java/com/<xxx>/<xxx>/MainApplication.java:23: error: cannot find symbol
import com.swmansion.gesturehandler.react.RNGestureHandlerPackage;
                                         ^
  symbol:   class RNGestureHandlerPackage
  location: package com.swmansion.gesturehandler.react
/Users/<xxx>/<xxx>/<xxx>/android/app/src/main/java/com/<xxx>/<xxx>/MainApplication.java:58: error: cannot find symbol
            packages.add(new RNGestureHandlerPackage());
                             ^
  symbol: class RNGestureHandlerPackage
Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API.
Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
2 errors

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac'.

Package versions

  • React: 17.0.2
  • React Native: 0.68.2
  • existing version of React Native Gesture Handler: 2.2.0

iOS builds fine

+2
veb-ioki on Aug 10, 2022

@mwegener-com have you found solution?

+2
Arkan4ik on Dec 14, 2021

@tchejanovich If you have manual dependency linking in your project, you should double check the import path for com.swmansion.gesturehandler.RNGestureHandlerPackage; in your MainApplication.

We were updating from 1.10.3 -> 2.5.0 and it looks like at some point the import path for the package was moved from import com.swmansion.gesturehandler.react.RNGestureHandlerPackage; to import com.swmansion.gesturehandler.RNGestureHandlerPackage;

+1
phillipkey on Dec 19, 2023

Running into this issue as well.

+1
tgreco on Dec 8, 2022
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