Incompatibility with Firebase

[nuagoz]

Hello,

I have a Firebase dependency conflict when building on iOS. In my app, I have Firebase installed with

"@react-native-firebase/app": "^21.11.0".

We can't use react-native-vision-camera-text-recognition alongside Firebase packages. This prevents iOS builds from completing due to incompatible version requirements.

> CocoaPods could not find compatible versions for pod "GoogleUtilities/UserDefaults":
>   In Podfile:
>     RNFBAppCheck (from `../node_modules/@react-native-firebase/app-check`) was resolved to 21.11.0, which depends on
>       Firebase/AppCheck (= 11.8.0) was resolved to 11.8.0, which depends on
>         FirebaseAppCheck (~> 11.8.0) was resolved to 11.8.0, which depends on
>           GoogleUtilities/UserDefaults (~> 8.0)
> 
>     VisionCameraTextRecognition (from `../node_modules/react-native-vision-camera-text-recognition`) was resolved to 3.1.1, which depends on
>       GoogleMLKit/TextRecognitionJapanese was resolved to 2.3.0, which depends on
>         MLKitTextRecognitionJapanese (~> 1.0.0-beta1) was resolved to 1.0.0-beta1, which depends on
>           MLKitCommon (~> 3.1) was resolved to 3.1.0, which depends on
>             GoogleUtilities/UserDefaults (~> 7.0)

It seems there are problems with the versions being installed in the podspec. It appears to be installing older versions that use GoogleUtilities 7, while Firebase has been using version 8 for many releases already. When looking at the MLKit documentation, I saw they made compatibility adjustments for iOS: https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/release-notes#september_30_2024

I tried to manually update the versions myself, but it didn't work. It requests building for a higher iOS target version, and I can't successfully build for iOS.

VisionCameraTextRecognition.podspec:

  s.dependency "React-Core"
  s.dependency "VisionCamera"
  s.dependency "GoogleMLKit/TextRecognition", "7.0.0"
  s.dependency "GoogleMLKit/TextRecognitionChinese", "7.0.0"
  s.dependency "GoogleMLKit/TextRecognitionDevanagari", "7.0.0"
  s.dependency "GoogleMLKit/TextRecognitionJapanese", "7.0.0"
  s.dependency "GoogleMLKit/TextRecognitionKorean", "7.0.0"
  s.dependency "GoogleMLKit/Translate", "7.0.0"

Would someone be able to update the MLKit packages on iOS to handle compatibility issues? It's supposed to be possible, and on Android it works perfectly.

Thank you for your help

[gev2002]

@nuagoz Will be fixed in a new version soon.

[Dr-Drake]

Thanks @gev2002.

In the meantime I had to downgrade my firebase dependencies to get it to build.

I used these versions in my package.json:
"@react-native-firebase/app": "^20.5.0",
"@react-native-firebase/messaging": "^20.5.0",

[ArviinM]

Looking forward for the fix soon.

[ShchipskiiYura]

Same problems. When expect a new version?

[tiagocorreiaalmeida]

Hey @gev2002 is there an ETA for this change? Is there anything that I can help with?

[tiagocorreiaalmeida]

This seems to fix it, it is also required to set deploymentTarget to at least 16 for the new package version

diff --git a/node_modules/react-native-vision-camera-text-recognition/VisionCameraTextRecognition.podspec b/node_modules/react-native-vision-camera-text-recognition/VisionCameraTextRecognition.podspec
index c480708..eabac53 100644
--- a/node_modules/react-native-vision-camera-text-recognition/VisionCameraTextRecognition.podspec
+++ b/node_modules/react-native-vision-camera-text-recognition/VisionCameraTextRecognition.podspec
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ Pod::Spec.new do |s|

   s.dependency "React-Core"
   s.dependency "VisionCamera"
-  s.dependency "GoogleMLKit/TextRecognition"
-  s.dependency "GoogleMLKit/TextRecognitionChinese"
-  s.dependency "GoogleMLKit/TextRecognitionDevanagari"
-  s.dependency "GoogleMLKit/TextRecognitionJapanese"
-  s.dependency "GoogleMLKit/TextRecognitionKorean"
-  s.dependency "GoogleMLKit/Translate"
+  s.dependency "GoogleMLKit/TextRecognition", '>= 8.0.0'
+  s.dependency "GoogleMLKit/TextRecognitionChinese", '>= 5.0.0'
+  s.dependency "GoogleMLKit/TextRecognitionDevanagari", '>= 5.0.0'
+  s.dependency "GoogleMLKit/TextRecognitionJapanese", '>= 5.0.0'
+  s.dependency "GoogleMLKit/TextRecognitionKorean", '>= 5.0.0'
+  s.dependency "GoogleMLKit/Translate", '>= 7.0.0'

 end

[briazzi64]

Any update on this issue and the Android build issues on React Native 0.77 being fixed?