Support/Linking for older React-Native

[aajahid]

We are kind stuck with react-native 0.59 and planning to use notifee. Documentation says its untested on older react-native but I'm willing to try it out.

But due to no Auto-link feature - I'm having trouble to get start. Any idea on how can I figure out what the autolink does and I'll try those changes manually to manual link the library?

Thanks

[mikehardy]

There is no support for react-native that old, and it's not something we are likely to support. In general we'll try to go down to 0.63 and that's about it. I can't imagine they'll work well at all, specifically: you need Android API31 symbol access to use this package, that requires gradle 7 tool chain for various reasons, and gradle 7 requires at least react-native 0.64 if I recall correctly.

You can patch around all of these by ingesting the specific changes that make everything work but that's a tremendous waste of time vs investment in getting current, in my opinion.

https://react-native-community.github.io/upgrade-helper/

[faustaleonardo]

Hi related to this, due to quite a different project structure that my react-native app has, I am wondering is it possible to use manual linking instead of auto linking? My react native app version is 0.65.1 though.

[mikehardy]

It's always possible just not supported. In the end, auto linking is just adding the reference to Gradle then using it to import symbols and load the sub gradle scripts, while also auto adding the native module to the package list in Main application. Can all be done manually if motivated