Firebase Messaging on Android suddenly started crashing when message received

Question

Currently using react native, react-native-firebase, and react-native-push-notification. Everything was fine until suddenly today firebase messaging started causing the app to crash. The error message is the following:

    Process: com.packagename, PID: 30087
    java.lang.AbstractMethodError: abstract method "com.google.android.gms.tasks.Task com.google.firebase.iid.WithinAppServiceBinder$IntentHandler.zza(android.content.Intent)"
        at com.google.firebase.iid.WithinAppServiceBinder.zza(com.google.firebase:firebase-iid@@20.2.2:9)
        at com.google.firebase.iid.zzaw.zza(com.google.firebase:firebase-iid@@20.2.2:30)
        at com.google.firebase.iid.zzaw.onServiceConnected(com.google.firebase:firebase-iid@@20.2.2:59)
        at android.app.LoadedApk$ServiceDispatcher.doConnected(LoadedApk.java:2067)
        at android.app.LoadedApk$ServiceDispatcher$RunConnection.run(LoadedApk.java:2099)
        at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:883)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:100)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:237)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8016)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:493)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1076)

The error occurs when a notification is received, but does not trigger a data message. In addition, the notification is received and processed before causing the crash.

I thought the error might have been caused by changing the react-native-firebase/app version, so I reverted my project on git to that of a previous, working version. However, I still get the same error after cleaning and rebuilding. It also occurs even if there are no notification listeners set up on the react native side, although I'm not sure what that entails for the actual native code. What could possibly be the problem? I'm using versions of react-native-firebase/messaging (7.1.5) and react-native-firebase/app (7.2.0) that were previously functional.

Manassas

Answer 1

We tried adding firebaseMessagingVersion = "20.2.1" into the ext section in the root project android/build.gradle which fixed it for us. We looked into the safeExtGet method and found that it would try to extract the top level variable from the root project file.

By doing it in this way we didn't need to touch the node modules.

ext {
        googlePlayServicesVersion = "16.+"
        firebaseVersion = "17.3.4"
        firebaseMessagingVersion = "20.2.1"
    }

Greiner

This is what I ended up doing as well, will mark this as the correct answer – Manassas

I had the same issue and this saved my butt. Thank you! – Mushro

Yeah, downgrading worked. Thank you for pointing this out. – Rescission

Downgrading is the correct solution, see my answer below for more information. – Snakeroot

Answer 2

Edit 07/09/2020: We have released firebase-iid and firebase-messaging versions 20.2.3 with a fix for this issue, please upgrade to the latest versions.

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[Firebaser here] It looks like yesterday's releases of firebase-messaging and firebase-iid contain a bug which can cause this crash. We are working hard on a fix.

For now the best thing to do is to use the versions released on June 18th: https://firebase.google.com/support/release-notes/android#2020-06-18

• com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:20.2.1
• com.google.firebase:firebase-iid:20.2.1

We are working on a fix and hope to have a new release out soon. When we do I will update this answer and the release notes will be available here: https://firebase.google.com/support/release-notes/android

Snakeroot

Thanks for the update @sam-stern! I'm also having this issue, so please let us know whenever you have news 😄 – Bigener

Can the firebase Iid be set also with adding firebaseIidVersion = "20.2.1" to the android/build.gradle? – Lexington

Answer 3

Exact same issue with these versions. And yes they were functional before this "@react-native-firebase/app": "^6.7.1", "@react-native-firebase/messaging": "^6.7.1",

Issue Solved:

1. Go to react-native-push-notification/build.gradle
2. Change def firebaseVersion = safeExtGet('firebaseVersion', '+') to def firebaseVersion = safeExtGet('firebaseVersion', '20.2.1')

It was picking us the version 20.2.2 which is not stable and was causing all kind of weird issues.

Jocelin

wow this did it thanks so much! I was going insane because of this. – Manassas

By the way for me it was firebaseMessagingVersion, in case anyone else sees this and has the same issue – Manassas

Thanks! @Manassas I had to do the same as you, implementation "com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:${safeExtGet('firebaseMessagingVersion', '20.2.1')}" – Magistrate

Wouldn't this just get wiped when you reinstall node modules? Also it wouldn't be committed to version control (assuming you'd git-ignore node_modules). I'm new to RN, maybe I'm misunderstanding something. – Outleap

Yes it would get wiped, In this case I would recommend following the accepted answer but if you ever need to change anything in node_modules, patch-package is a convenient solution – Manassas

Answer 4

This upgrade fixed the issue for me

implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:20.2.3'

Flesher

This worked for me. Been scratching my head for 2 days. – Spaceless

Answer 5

This case is working for me:

implementation "com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:20.2.3"
implementation "com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics:17.4.4"

Ref to github issue

Fujio

Answer 6

This issue is fixed with latest version of this dependency. https://firebase.google.com/support/release-notes/android#messaging_v20-2-3

Aprilette