After importing react-native-firebase/firestore in to my app, I get the build error 'Could not find com.google.firebase:firebase-bom:21.3.0.'

Question

I have just added react-native-firebase/firestore v6.2.0 to my React Native app. It was previously building fine whilst using the auth and messaging modules.

Now when I build the app I get the error:

> Could not resolve all task dependencies for configuration ':app:debugRuntimeClasspath'.
   > Could not find com.google.firebase:firebase-bom:21.3.0.
     Searched in the following locations:
       ...
     Required by:
         project :app > project :@react-native-firebase_messaging
         project :app > project :@react-native-firebase_app
         project :app > project :@react-native-firebase_auth

I'm not sure what this file is or why it would have been removed.

Any help much appreciated!

Answer 1

After some tracking I noticed that com.google.firebase:firebase-bom:21.3.0 is missing in the Maven repositories

Which makes me believe it never existed. After some tracking in the react-native-firebase files I noticed that tag v6.1.0 has com.google.firebase:firebase-bom:21.1.0 for some packages except for firestore, which has com.google.firebase:firebase-bom:21.3.0 . And this is repeated for v6.2.0

So... yeah, It may have been problem updating the dependencies. I may upload an issue to address this.

My solution was to use version v6.0.3

You can manually edit the following file in your local node_modules : https://github.com/invertase/react-native-firebase/blob/v6.1.0/packages/firestore/android/build.gradle