Update to 4.0.1 and got error: Cannot read property 'initialize' of undefined

[Dashue]

An uncaught Exception occurred on "main" thread.
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.readersguide.android/com.tns.NativeScriptActivity}: com.tns.NativeScriptException:
Calling js method onCreate failed

TypeError: Cannot read property 'initialize' of undefined
File: "file:///data/data/com.readersguide.android/files/app/tns_modules/nativescript-plugin-firebase/firebase.js, line: 290, column: 44

StackTrace:
Frame: function:'runInit', file:'file:///data/data/com.readersguide.android/files/app/tns_modules/nativescript-plugin-firebase/firebase.js', line: 290, column: 45
Frame: function:'Observable.notify', file:'file:///data/data/com.readersguide.android/files/app/tns_modules/tns-core-modules/data/observable/observable.js', line: 103, column: 23
Frame: function:'ActivityCallbacksImplementation.onCreate', file:'file:///data/data/com.readersguide.android/files/app/tns_modules/tns-core-modules/ui/frame/frame.js', line: 675, column: 36
Frame: function:'NativeScriptActivity.onCreate', file:'file:///data/data/com.readersguide.android/files/app/tns_modules/tns-core-modules/ui/frame/activity.js', line: 20, column: 25

at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2416)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2476)
at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap11(ActivityThread.java)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1344)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5417)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:726)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616)

Caused by: com.tns.NativeScriptException:
Calling js method onCreate failed

TypeError: Cannot read property 'initialize' of undefined
File: "file:///data/data/com.readersguide.android/files/app/tns_modules/nativescript-plugin-firebase/firebase.js, line: 290, column: 44

StackTrace:
Frame: function:'runInit', file:'file:///data/data/com.readersguide.android/files/app/tns_modules/nativescript-plugin-firebase/firebase.js', line: 290, column: 45
Frame: function:'Observable.notify', file:'file:///data/data/com.readersguide.android/files/app/tns_modules/tns-core-modules/data/observable/observable.js', line: 103, column: 23
Frame: function:'ActivityCallbacksImplementation.onCreate', file:'file:///data/data/com.readersguide.android/files/app/tns_modules/tns-core-modules/ui/frame/frame.js', line: 675, column: 36
Frame: function:'NativeScriptActivity.onCreate', file:'file:///data/data/com.readersguide.android/files/app/tns_modules/tns-core-modules/ui/frame/activity.js', line: 20, column: 25

at com.tns.Runtime.callJSMethodNative(Native Method)
at com.tns.Runtime.dispatchCallJSMethodNative(Runtime.java:1043)
at com.tns.Runtime.callJSMethodImpl(Runtime.java:925)
at com.tns.Runtime.callJSMethod(Runtime.java:912)
at com.tns.Runtime.callJSMethod(Runtime.java:896)
at com.tns.Runtime.callJSMethod(Runtime.java:888)
at com.tns.NativeScriptActivity.onCreate(NativeScriptActivity.java:13)
at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:6251)
at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1107)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2369)
... 9 more

[EddyVerbruggen]

Interesting.. do you have AdMob enabled? If not then something else is adding a class in the com.google.android.gms.ads package and we need to expand this check to:

if (typeof(com.google.android.gms.ads) !== "undefined" && typeof(com.google.android.gms.ads.MobileAds) !== "undefined") {

You can try that in your own project to see if it fixes the issue. Just tweak the file in node_modules/nativescript-plugin-firebase/firebase.android.js, rm -rf platforms/android and run the project again.

[Dashue]

I don't have AdMob enabled (haven't gotten around to it).

Downgrading back to 3.12.0 makes it work again for now

I'll try that fix now and let you know.

[EddyVerbruggen]

OK - if you like you can upgrade to 4.1.1 which should fix the problem (I applied that code suggestion.. didn't test it but I can't see a reason why it wouldn't work).

[Dashue]

Yup that made it work!