react-native-google-fit: Build failed with an exception: cannot find symbol getName()

Build failed on new RN project

/node_modules/react-native-google-fit/android/src/main/java/com/reactnative/googlefit/StepHistory.java:211: error: cannot find symbol
            if (dataSource.getName() != null) {
                          ^
  symbol:   method getName()
  location: variable dataSource of type DataSource
/node_modules/react-native-google-fit/android/src/main/java/com/reactnative/googlefit/StepHistory.java:212: error: cannot find symbol
                source.putString("name", dataSource.getName());
                                                   ^
  symbol:   method getName()
  location: variable dataSource of type DataSource
/node_modules/react-native-google-fit/android/src/main/java/com/reactnative/googlefit/RecordingApi.java:56: error: cannot find symbol
                return DataType.TYPE_ACTIVITY_SAMPLES;
                               ^
  symbol:   variable TYPE_ACTIVITY_SAMPLES
  location: class DataType

to fix that you need explicitly set rootProject.ext.set("fitnessVersion", "18.0.0") in your build.gradle config, there is breaking changes in v19

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works! in android/app/build.gradle

+13

agnieszkabugla on Aug 11, 2020

or, you can put in your root gradle file at app-name/android/build.gradle:

buildscript {
    ext {
        buildToolsVersion = "29.0.3"
        minSdkVersion = 19
        compileSdkVersion = 29
        targetSdkVersion = 29
        supportLibVersion = "28.0.0"

        // react-native-google-fit
        fitnessVersion = "18.0.0"
    }
    repositories {
    ...

Hesowcharov on Aug 11, 2020

Thanks this just started happening when a build was fine on Friday.

lemonkey on Aug 10, 2020

As @HumbleBeck says, put it in node-modules/react-native-google-fit/android/build-gradle

def safeExtGet(prop, fallback) { rootProject.ext.set("fitnessVersion", "18.0.0") }

KaviduAloka on Aug 11, 2020

@mkwforaus do you try to clean cache and rebuild/reinstall your project? any sign out or sign in mechanism? Note that version 10 use deprecated api to fetch data, v13 uses the standard one.

aboveyunhai on Aug 12, 2020

This is due to a recent release of Google play fitness service: https://developers.google.com/android/guides/releases#august_10_2020

@agnieszkabugla fix is working for me, but I think that this library shouldn’t use the most recent version of Google services, but a fixed version

qlereboursBS on Aug 11, 2020

We were actually using an old version of the node module which was not taking the dependency version from the rootProject. We have upgraded the version to 0.13.0 and then tried to set the version of fitnessVersion to 18.0.0 as mentioned by @HumbleBeck and it works fine. Thanks a lot everyone 😃

saitejamalapati on Aug 11, 2020