error occurred while executing doInBackground()

[gifary]

Issue

I am getting this error when in foreground when calling function firebase.notifications().displayNotification(notification)

java.lang.RuntimeException: An error occurred while executing doInBackground()
at android.os.AsyncTask$3.done(AsyncTask.java:309)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.finishCompletion(FutureTask.java:354)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.setException(FutureTask.java:223)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:242)
at android.os.AsyncTask$SerialExecutor$1.run(AsyncTask.java:234)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1113)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:588)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:818)
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: No virtual method setColorized(Z)Landroid/support/v4/app/NotificationCompat$Builder; in class Landroid/support/v4/app/NotificationCompat$Builder; or its super classes (declaration of 'android.support.v4.app.NotificationCompat$Builder' appears in /data/app/com.hellobeauty.vendor-2/base.apk:classes2.dex)
at io.invertase.firebase.notifications.DisplayNotificationTask.doInBackground(DisplayNotificationTask.java:148)
at io.invertase.firebase.notifications.DisplayNotificationTask.doInBackground(DisplayNotificationTask.java:31)
at android.os.AsyncTask$2.call(AsyncTask.java:295)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:237)
at android.os.AsyncTask$SerialExecutor$1.run(AsyncTask.java:234) 
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1113) 
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:588) 
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:818) 

Environment

1. Application Target Platform:
   Android

2. Development Operating System:
   Mac OS siera 10.13

3. Build Tools:
   via terimnal using react-native run android

4. React Native version:
   0.56

5. React Native Firebase Version:
   ^5.0.0

6. Firebase Module:
   Firebase messaging

7. Are you using typescript?
   No

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[Salakar]

Duplicate issue of #1550

[Salakar]

Hey, the issue here is that "com.android.support:support-v4" needs to be version v26 or higher as that's the version most of these API's that are causing crashes were introduced. I'd imagine it was being set to a version less than this.

You can see here that this method specifically was only introduced in version 26 of the dependency and is being called by Firebase internally but it doesn't exist in that version.

We do add checks in the code for build versions e.g. if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) { (26) but if the methods don't exist in the library because the version is out of date it would have crashed.

I've just added some try catches around all the methods that we've used that were introduced in v26 of the library - so it should now gracefully continue to work on v24-25 albeit without those specific notification features functioning.

However - should this error continue to keep happening then I'd suggest ensuring you're using v26 and above of the Android support library as some of these calls may be out of our control.

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