'sharedApplication' is unavailable: not available on iOS (App Extension)

When I try to build my iOS app (which includes a share extension) I’m getting this error:

❌  [...]/node_modules/react-native/React/Modules/RCTTiming.m:150:49: 'sharedApplication' is unavailable: not available on iOS (App Extension) - Use view controller based solutions where appropriate instead.

    _backgroundTaskIdentifier = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] beginBackgroundTaskWithName:@"rct.timing.gb.task" expirationHandler:^{
[...]

My Podfile looks like this:

platform :ios, '10.3'
require_relative '../node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-ios/native_modules'

def common_pods
  pod 'FBLazyVector', :path => "../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/FBLazyVector"
  pod 'FBReactNativeSpec', :path => "../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/FBReactNativeSpec"
  pod 'RCTRequired', :path => "../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/RCTRequired"
  pod 'RCTTypeSafety', :path => "../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/TypeSafety"
  pod 'React', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/'
  pod 'React-Core', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/'
  pod 'React-CoreModules', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/React/CoreModules'
  pod 'React-Core/DevSupport', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/'
  pod 'React-RCTActionSheet', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/ActionSheetIOS'
  pod 'React-RCTAnimation', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/NativeAnimation'
  pod 'React-RCTBlob', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/Blob'
  pod 'React-RCTImage', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/Image'
  pod 'React-RCTLinking', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/LinkingIOS'
  pod 'React-RCTNetwork', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/Network'
  pod 'React-RCTSettings', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/Settings'
  pod 'React-RCTText', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/Text'
  pod 'React-RCTVibration', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/Libraries/Vibration'
  pod 'React-Core/RCTWebSocket', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/'

  pod 'React-cxxreact', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/ReactCommon/cxxreact'
  pod 'React-jsi', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/ReactCommon/jsi'
  pod 'React-jsiexecutor', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/ReactCommon/jsiexecutor'
  pod 'React-jsinspector', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/ReactCommon/jsinspector'
  pod 'ReactCommon/jscallinvoker', :path => "../node_modules/react-native/ReactCommon"
  pod 'ReactCommon/turbomodule/core', :path => "../node_modules/react-native/ReactCommon"
  pod 'Yoga', :path => '../node_modules/react-native/ReactCommon/yoga'

  pod 'DoubleConversion', :podspec => '../node_modules/react-native/third-party-podspecs/DoubleConversion.podspec'
  pod 'glog', :podspec => '../node_modules/react-native/third-party-podspecs/glog.podspec'
  pod 'Folly', :podspec => '../node_modules/react-native/third-party-podspecs/Folly.podspec'

  use_native_modules!
end

target 'MyApp' do
  # Comment the next line if you're not using Swift and don't want to use dynamic frameworks
  # use_frameworks!

  # Pods for MyApp
  pod 'Hakawai', '6.0.1'

  common_pods
end

target 'ShareExtension' do
  # Comment the next line if you're not using Swift and don't want to use dynamic frameworks
  # use_frameworks!

  # Pods for ShareExtension
  common_pods
end

target 'NotificationService' do
    # Comment the next line if you're not using Swift and don't want to use dynamic frameworks
    # use_frameworks!
    
    # Pods for NotificationService
    # pod 'Sodium', :git => 'https://github.com/jedisct1/swift-sodium.git'
    pod 'Sodium', '0.8.0'
end

post_install do |installer|
    installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
        target.build_configurations.each do |config|
            if ['Sodium'].include? target.name
                config.build_settings['SWIFT_VERSION'] = '5.0'
            end
        end
    end
end

React Native version:

System:
    OS: macOS 10.15
    CPU: (12) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-8950HK CPU @ 2.90GHz
    Memory: 1.17 GB / 32.00 GB
    Shell: 5.7.1 - /bin/zsh
  Binaries:
    Node: 12.10.0 - /var/folders/r4/pdxxhfbj3cqg_0n5th1p2t400000gn/T/yarn--1571217098131-0.37052803821248426/node
    Yarn: 1.19.0 - /var/folders/r4/pdxxhfbj3cqg_0n5th1p2t400000gn/T/yarn--1571217098131-0.37052803821248426/yarn
    npm: 6.11.3 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.10.0/bin/npm
    Watchman: 4.9.0 - /usr/local/bin/watchman
  SDKs:
    iOS SDK:
      Platforms: iOS 13.1, DriverKit 19.0, macOS 10.15, tvOS 13.0, watchOS 6.0
  IDEs:
    Android Studio: 3.5 AI-191.8026.42.35.5900203
    Xcode: 11.1/11A1027 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
  npmPackages:
    react: 16.9.0 => 16.9.0 
    react-native: 0.61.2 => 0.61.2 
  npmGlobalPackages:
    react-native-cli: 2.0.1
    react-native-git-upgrade: 0.2.7

Steps To Reproduce

1. Just build a dummy iOS app having a share extension target will trigger this

Now I guess one could simply replace the sharedApplication call with RCTSharedApplication() as a quick fix (I’ve done it but then it fails somewhere further in DevSupport-RCTDevLoadingView) but I’m wondering if it’s the best approach or if there are pods that can simply be excluded from the extension target?

[kevinetore]

@alexisbronchart I had add some lines in my Podfile which fixed the issue (for now).

post_install do |installer|
  installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
    target.build_configurations.each do |config|
      config.build_settings['APPLICATION_EXTENSION_API_ONLY'] = 'NO'
    end
  end
end

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