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Freewalker
Freewalker

Reputation: 7355

react-native link can't find my MainApplication.java file

Every time I try to react-native link a new library, I get the same error message. Here it is for react-native-video.

rnpm-install info Linking react-native-video android dependency rnpm-install ERR! Something went wrong while linking. Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/Me/Projects/myProject/android/app/src/main/java/com/companyName/appName/MainApplication.java' Please file an issue here: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues

The actual location of my MainApplication.java file is

./android/app/src/main/java/com/appName/MainApplication.java

The difference is that React Native Link is including "company name" in the path, which doesn't match my project.

How can I fix this?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 16431

Answers (4)

Pascal Nitcheu
Pascal Nitcheu

Reputation: 799

There are only two options that i am aware of to solve this problem

  1. close all the terminals to stop the node server running on a difference terminal.

    • If you still have the mistake after that then try the following option You might still have the error because you uninstall and re-install react-native without paying attention to the version that you installed which for most case will be the latest version. So double check the current version of your react-native when installing it. "\n"

  2. so either

    • in your package.json you add "react-native": "^0.60.5" if the version is 0.60.5 replace "^0.60.5" by the version you are trying to run, in devDepencies and run npm install or
    • run npm install [email protected] or npm install react-native@version

Upvotes: 0

Mark
Mark

Reputation: 2071

I'm pretty late to the party on this, but for future reference;

TLDR: Adding another folder like so java/com/companyName/AppName/ will fix your issue.

After updating to the latest react-native I had this issue too. Your android path contains your apps ID so com.test.app path should be android/app/src/main/java/com/test/app.

Looking at your error message, its actually telling you where it's expecting the file to be;

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/Me/Projects/myProject/android/app/src/main/java/com/companyName/appName/MainApplication.java'

If you create another folder like so java/com/companyName/AppName/ you will be able to automatically link plugins.

Upvotes: 5

My Mai
My Mai

Reputation: 1093

Another way I tried and it works for me: rm -rf node_modules && npm install

Then retry install your package: ex: npm install react-native-image-picker@latest --save

Then react-native link your package react-native link react-native-image-picker

Upvotes: 2

My Mai
My Mai

Reputation: 1093

I looked over some topic and found solution, you can try with:

npm install --save-dev babel-plugin-module-resolver and then add your npm install package & react-native link again.

Good luck

Upvotes: 7

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