When will it support react-native 0.60.+

[abdallaemadeldin]

How to make viro react work with react native project where react-native version is 0.61.5? @dthian

[dthian]

@abdallaemadeldin, all you need to do is to rebuild Viro with the updated ReactNative version. If the new ReactNative version has new Apis, or function signatures, or dependencies, then you will have to resolve them. Since ViroReact is opensourced, you can pretty much do this upgrade on your local workspace, good luck!

For future Viro questions @VikAdvani would be the best person to ask. Im maintaining mostly the ViroCore repo.

[abdallaemadeldin]

@VikAdvani after upgrading package

<ViroVRSceneNavigator
  initialScene={{
          scene: () => {
            return (
               // i added ViroScene here
            );
          }
        }}
      />

app crashed when i add ViroScene do you have any solution?

[dthian]

@abdallaemadeldin I'm not sure if you are upgrading the right way. You should just be bumping up the version and then performing a re-install via npm.

However, it looks like Google has released BREAKING changes in their latest version of play services and Firebase because of AndroidX. This is causing havoc in ReactNative. As shown here and here.

I would recommend using Rn 0.59 for now.

[abdallaemadeldin]

@dthian thank you so much

[sercanov]

We're already using Viro with RN 0.60+ on iOS for months now, without any issues.

 "react": "16.9.0",
 "react-native": "0.61.5",
 "react-viro": "^2.17.0",

[abdallaemadeldin]

@sercanov how did you update it?

[dthian]

Interesting, @sercanov did you only test it for iOS? Or did you manage to verify that it works on Android as well with RN 0.60+? (From the links above, it looks like it wouldn't just work right off the bat)

[netojose]

For me, the RN version 0.61.5 works on IOS, but on Android, not :(

[sercanov]

@dthian it's stable on iOS. Last week I managed to made it work on Android with https://github.com/citychallenge/viro

You can try it out on AppStore

[dthian]

@sercanov could you share the steps with the community on how you got Rn 0.60+ working on Android? From the link you shared, the package.json manifest still had Rn0.59....

[sercanov]

For iOS, it's pretty straightforward as on the official viro docs, here and here For Android I was getting errors while building, this comment helped https://github.com/viromedia/viro/issues/781#issuecomment-576043790

[cristianoccazinsp]

And RN 0.62 is coming soon, yet we need to manually build for Android a react_viro-release.aar file each time RN updates. Would be great to build from the project's RN source instead of a hardcoded aar file. I know the goal of the aar file is to reduce the repo size, but it's getting painful.

[sanders54]

Same issue here. Would need to build react-viro manually with RN 0.60+ since AppStore will not allow new apps that contain RN 59.9 due to deprecations.

[Peege151]

Upgrading from 59.9 to 62.2 for me was a PITA but it wasn't anything to do with the Viro library that was causing problems, as much as just react-native. Just go into package.json and change the version and reinstall.

There's a number of issues that can pop up at this point, but more than likely they are related to the auto-link issues. Some libs still require manual placement of pods... my build is requiring every pod I need, but it's working in 62.2

[ManigandanRaamanathan]

@sercanov any update on the iOS deprecated UIWebView issue? Apple already stopped receiving the UIWebView API. Now we are unable to upload the app

[ManigandanRaamanathan]

@dthian please fix the OS deprecated UIWebView issue

[dthian]

@ManigandanRaamanathan please stop mass spamming issues that are not related to the UIWebView issue. This thread is related to react upgrades.

[emeagenciadigital]

Viro currently is dead. Without a way to run it on RN latest version, you will face this issue UIWebView issue and IOs will not accept your app @dthian

[dthian]

Some developers have mitigate this issue @emeagenciadigital, see https://github.com/viromedia/viro/issues/852#issuecomment-657235338. Good luck!

[akashchekka]

I am able to use viro in RN 0.63.3 by doing following:

Clone viro repository Updated react and react-native versions to latest version in package.json Updated react and react-native versions to latest version in package.json in test folder and run npm install (May be not necessary) execute prepare_release.sh in root directory => It generates react-viro-2.17.0.tgz file Created project with react-native init and installed react-viro and create-react-class using npm Remove all the contents of react-viro in node-modules and then extract the contents of tgz file into cleared react-viro. execute this script to make all necessary modifications in gradle, AndroidManifest.xml and java files: ./node_modules/react-viro/bin/android-setup.sh true. Modified few errors Then running android script with GvrDebug, react-native run-android --variant=GvrDebug

The above mentioned steps made my VR app to run perfectly. refer this gist to see all the necessary changes: https://gist.github.com/akeemphilbert/8323a7b71e682469b922920a624b35a8

Hope this helps

[mynameisntrick]

I am able to use viro in RN 0.63.3 by doing following:

Clone viro repository Updated react and react-native versions to latest version in package.json Updated react and react-native versions to latest version in package.json in test folder and run npm install (May be not necessary) execute prepare_release.sh in root directory => It generates react-viro-2.17.0.tgz file Created project with react-native init and installed react-viro and create-react-class using npm Remove all the contents of react-viro in node-modules and then extract the contents of tgz file into cleared react-viro. execute this script to make all necessary modifications in gradle, AndroidManifest.xml and java files: ./node_modules/react-viro/bin/android-setup.sh true. Modified few errors Then running android script with GvrDebug, react-native run-android --variant=GvrDebug

The above mentioned steps made my VR app to run perfectly. refer this gist to see all the necessary changes: https://gist.github.com/akeemphilbert/8323a7b71e682469b922920a624b35a8

Hope this helps

Works for me! Thank you.

Would recommend to create a new Repository with the contents of the tgz File and install the Module via "npm install git+..." this will prevent npm to revert the changes on every install

[haider792]

I am able to use viro in RN 0.63.3 by doing following:

Clone viro repository Updated react and react-native versions to latest version in package.json Updated react and react-native versions to latest version in package.json in test folder and run npm install (May be not necessary) execute prepare_release.sh in root directory => It generates react-viro-2.17.0.tgz file Created project with react-native init and installed react-viro and create-react-class using npm Remove all the contents of react-viro in node-modules and then extract the contents of tgz file into cleared react-viro. execute this script to make all necessary modifications in gradle, AndroidManifest.xml and java files: ./node_modules/react-viro/bin/android-setup.sh true. Modified few errors Then running android script with GvrDebug, react-native run-android --variant=GvrDebug

The above mentioned steps made my VR app to run perfectly. refer this gist to see all the necessary changes: https://gist.github.com/akeemphilbert/8323a7b71e682469b922920a624b35a8

Hope this helps

execute ./prepare_releasae.sh is giving an error of the viro_bridge. can you please tell me about this? @Akash76

[adelarsq]

@haider792 I'm also with this error. Any idea?

For reference https://github.com/viromedia/viro/issues/917

[haider792]

@mynameisntrick is VR app is on apple store?

[SamiChab]

Is it planned to make Viro compatible with React Native versions greater than 0.59.9 in the future ?

[adelarsq]

@SamiChab There is no plans.

On the current project we are maintaining just +0.63.2 versions.

[SamiChab]

Thank you so much, I didn't knew there was a @viro-community package !!

[adelarsq]

@SamiChab I decide to create a fork since this project isn't maintained anymore. After a lot of people joined together and we was able to create a community.

See our discord if you need some help. There are already a lot of people there.

By the way we still didn't have time to move the documentation from the original site. It's a little outdated, but still can help.