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

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"
    }