Old dependencies

• Jitsi Meet version: 2.10
• Platform: Android

We use jitsi with react-native. We got problem that every dependency conflicts each other and we excluded almost every:

    implementation(project(':react-native-jitsi-meet')) {
      exclude group: 'com.facebook.react',module:'react-native-sound'
      exclude group: 'com.facebook.react',module:'react-native-vector-icons'
      exclude group: 'com.facebook.react',module:'react-native-svg'
      exclude group: 'com.facebook.react',module:'react-native-community-async-storage'
      exclude group: 'com.facebook.react',module:'react-native-calendar-events'
      exclude group: 'com.facebook.react',module:'react-native-fast-image'
      exclude group: 'com.facebook.react',module:'react-native-linear-gradient'
      exclude group: 'com.facebook.react',module:'react-native-webview'
      exclude group: 'com.facebook.react',module:'react-native-google-signin'
      exclude group: 'com.facebook.react',module:'react-native-background-timer'
      exclude group: 'com.facebook.react',module:'react-native-locale-detector'
      exclude group: 'com.facebook.react',module:'react-native-community_netinfo'
      exclude group: 'com.facebook.react',module:'react-native'
      exclude group: 'com.facebook',module:'hermes'
      transitive = true
    }

After we excluded all dependencies we succeed to start app. But now jitsi is crashing. Main reason of crashes: old dependencies. Also I found that some dependencies are forked. Why??? Repositories are empty.

Currently I know at least 2 libs that causes crashes for android:

• react-native-calendar-events
• react-native-community_netinfo

Can you update dependencies to recent versions?

[jmagdada]

error: attribute android:foregroundServiceType not found.

Hey @jmagdada could you please tell me how did you resolve this error?

@deva-gopalani You have to make sure that compileSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion is set to 29. I forgot if setting minSdkVersion to 23 is necessary. But you can try it if not gonna work.

Also if you have this code in your android/build.gradle. make sure to set it to 29 as well.

subprojects {
    afterEvaluate {project ->
        if (project.hasProperty("android")) {
            android {
                compileSdkVersion 29
                buildToolsVersion '29.0.2'
            }
        }
    }
}

[saghul]

I hear you, but I’ve been bitten by this package before. Multiple times. Someone adds some feature, which I don’t use, but then the code runs regardless and things break.

Keeping our dependencies up to date is something we strive for, but again, we need to be careful because the are many users relying on our app not breaking.

Regarding the package change. I’ll be blunt, that’s rubbish. It adds nothing, just churn as you can see, for literally no benefit.

We will update it, but we need to go through the changes to make sure nothing breaks.