react-native-push-notification: evaluating RNPushNotification.getInitialNotification is not an object

Hi all,

I have installed React native push Notification and following the installation guide correctly but I faced this error: TypeError: null is not an object (evaluating 'RNPushNotification.getInitialNotification ').

import PushNotification from “react-native-push-notification”; import PushNotificationIOS from “@react-native-community/push-notification-ios”; import {Platform} from “react-native”; NotifService.js:

export default class NotifService {
  configure = () => {
    PushNotification.configure({
      // (optional) Called when Token is generated (iOS and Android)
      onRegister: function(token){
        console.log("[Notification Service] on register token:", token);
      },

      // (required) Called when a remote or local notification is opened or received
      onNotification: (notification) => {
        console.log("[Notification Service] onNotification:", notification);
    
        // process the notification
    
        // required on iOS only (see fetchCompletionHandler docs: https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-push-notification-ios)
        notification.finish(PushNotificationIOS.FetchResult.NoData);
      },
      senderID: "----",

      permissions: {
          alert: true,
          badge: true,
          sound: true,
      },
      popInitialNotification: true,
      requestPermissions: true,
    });
  }
}

MyComponent.js:

componentDidMount() {
    this.localNotif = new NotifService();
    this.localNotif.configure();
  }

Any help/Ideas please?!

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Comments: 29

Most upvoted comments

I solved my issue

npm install react-native-push-notification --save

+14

michaelVictoriaDev on Oct 16, 2020

Did you tried: #1335 (comment) ?

Yeah tried that too !

Edit : I reset the cache and deleted the build folder and now the error is gone but I am not getting the notification 😐

Edit 2. : I forgot to create a channel and after reading the changelog I did it properly and now it works perfectly and fine !

The possible fix for this issue is

reset the cache and delete the build folder and now the error will be gone

+13

tarunkishore2303 on Jan 3, 2021

Hello, I have the same error with an android device on an Expo App :

null is not an object (evaluating 'RNPushNotification.getInitialNotification').

Does anyone has already fixed this problem ? Thank you!

+10

Shamzic on May 11, 2020

Did you tried: #1335 (comment) ?

Yeah tried that too !

Edit : I reset the cache and deleted the build folder and now the error is gone but I am not getting the notification 😐

Edit 2. : I forgot to create a channel and after reading the changelog I did it properly and now it works perfectly and fine !

The possible fix for this issue is

reset the cache and delete the build folder and now the error will be gone

this woked for me

npm start – --reset-cache

davichoso on Jan 13, 2021

The package would not be linked to your java file. In your MainApplication.java file add:

import com.dieam.reactnativepushnotification.ReactNativePushNotificationPackage;

also add new ReactNativePushNotificationPackage() to getPackages method return value so it looks like this :

 @Override
    protected List<ReactPackage> getPackages() {
      return Arrays.<ReactPackage>asList(
          new MainReactPackage(),
              new ReactNativePushNotificationPackage()
      );
    }

anonewb on Nov 5, 2020

Still not fixed? I am on version 7 and it is returning same error.

jan-ambroz on Dec 24, 2020

Did you tried: #1335 (comment) ?

Yeah tried that too ! Edit : I reset the cache and deleted the build folder and now the error is gone but I am not getting the notification 😐 Edit 2. : I forgot to create a channel and after reading the changelog I did it properly and now it works perfectly and fine ! The possible fix for this issue is reset the cache and delete the build folder and now the error will be gone

@tarunkishore2303 where is the cache and build folder? I have this error! thanks

Build folder’s location : android/app/build

And you don’t need to manually search for the cache and delete it. Jus run the command npm start -- --reset-cache in your project’s directory

Hello there!

Unfortunately, this solution doesn’t work for me.

I’m using the 7.2.3 version

I would suggest you to uninstall and re install the app on your device after clearing cache and deleting build folder. I assume this issue is being caused when react native doesn’t recognise it properly.

tarunkishore2303 on Apr 6, 2021

Did you tried: #1335 (comment) ?

Yeah tried that too !

Edit : I reset the cache and deleted the build folder and now the error is gone but I am not getting the notification 😐

Edit 2. : I forgot to create a channel and after reading the changelog I did it properly and now it works perfectly and fine !

The possible fix for this issue is

reset the cache and delete the build folder and now the error will be gone

@tarunkishore2303 where is the cache and build folder? I have this error! thanks

Build folder’s location : android/app/build

And you don’t need to manually search for the cache and delete it. Jus run the command npm start -- --reset-cache in your project’s directory

tarunkishore2303 on Jan 14, 2021

EDIT: This is most likely because you changed non hot loaded files when configuring (like manifest, .java files) without relaunching run-android.

Kill everything. Then configure everything as dictated by the github install process. Then start your react service ‘npx react-native start’ then run your android ‘npx react-native run-android’

acSpock on Aug 22, 2020

@tarunkishore2303 Thank you very much!!! That really works!

kolyuchii on Apr 7, 2021

Wait for a fix or just downgrade. I have

"react-native-push-notification": "^3.1.1",

and this works

GeldgeilerGnom on Mar 9, 2020