could not invoke RNfusedlocation.getCurrentPosition - react-native-geolocation-service

Question

react-native-geolocation-service(^5.3.1) throws this error or app crashed when Geolocation.getCurrentPosition() is called. The error started getting after I have added react-native-maps(^1.8.0) library. It was working fine before. After doing a lot of search, i saw somewhere it was probably due to version mismatch of playservices from other modules.

react-native version - 0.72.3

In my android/build.gradle > googlePlayServicesVersion = "17.0.0"

When i change googlePlayServicesVersion version then the build fails with the following message: `* What went wrong: Could not determine the dependencies of task ':react-native-device-info:compileDebugAidl'.

Could not resolve all task dependencies for configuration ':react-native-device-info:debugCompileClasspath'. Could not find com.google.android.gms:play-services-iid:18.0.0. Required by: project :react-native-device-info

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BUILD FAILED in 9s error Failed to install the app. Command failed with exit code 1: ./gradlew app:installDebug -PreactNativeDevServerPort=8081 FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * What went wrong: Could not determine the dependencies of task ':react-native-device-info:compileDebugAidl'.

Could not resolve all task dependencies for configuration ':react-native-device-info:debugCompileClasspath'. > Could not find com.google.android.gms:play-services-iid:18.0.0. Required by: project :react-native-device-info`

Tried - bumping googlePlayServicesVersion to 17.+/18.0.0/20.0.0.

implementation (project(path: ':react-native-device-info')) { exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms', module: 'play-services' } added the above line in android>app>build.gradle

Answer 1

Faced similar issue, after hours of debugging here is the solution below.

In android/build.gradle:

Add this line =>playServicesLocationVersion = "21.0.1" inside buildscript.ext

In android/app/build.gradle:

Add this line or upgrade the version to 21.0.1 if older version already exists=>

implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:21.0.1' **inside dependencies**