Androidx Fix RN 0.60, Jetifier Compliance

In order to support React Native 0.60, library maintainers need to upgrade their android files to support androidx. This change can make a library unusable for users who have not upgraded their own app for androidx. The consensus solution for this issue is to update the build.gradle so that a library like jetifier can replace the non-compliant code.

For this app to be jetifier compliant, the following code in build.gradle needs to change from

compileOnly('com.facebook.react:react-native:+') 

to

implementation('com.facebook.react:react-native:+') {
        exclude group: 'com.android.support'
    }

Afterwards, all users need to do is run npx jetify to update the code before running react-native run-android The link below is an example of a successful PR implementing the above. https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-maps/commit/62bb953c19e55adb29200ecff9981eb5e594a7b3?diff=unified

@Agontuk could you please add these changes to your next commit? I am unable to submit a PR to address this issue myself.

[Agontuk]

I’ve pushed a fix for RN60 in a separate branch https://github.com/Agontuk/react-native-geolocation-service/tree/rn60-fix. Can you try and see if it works ?

[manu006]

Same issue arises to me when I upgrade my react-native version. This issue is arising due to react-native update for support of AndroidX

Go to ~/node_modules/react-native-geolocation-service/android/build.gradle

and do the changes on dependencies { ... compileOnly "com.facebook.react:react-native:+" }

to

dependencies { ... implementation('com.facebook.react:react-native:+') }