react-native-sensors Error: Native modules for sensors not available. Did react-native link run successfully? - react-native-sensors

Question

Thanks for any help, getting error message "Error: Native modules for sensors not available. Did react-native link run successfully?" when running npx react-native start
npx react-native run-android gives this error: > Task :app:processDebugManifest FAILED
right after installing react-native-sensors.
Install procedure:
npx react-native init proj8
cd proj8
npm install react-native-sensors --save
npx react-native link react-native-sensors
The last command reported successful but when I went through the manual Android procedure some parts were not done as follows:
import com.sensors.RNSensorsPackage;
was in android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainApplication.java
new RNSensorsPackage()
was not there, I added as follows:
#Override
protected List<ReactPackage> getPackages() {
#SuppressWarnings("UnnecessaryLocalVariable")
List<ReactPackage> packages = new PackageList(this).getPackages();
// Packages that cannot be autolinked yet can be added manually here, for example:
// packages.add(new MyReactNativePackage());
packages.add(new RNSensorsPackage());
return packages;
}
include ':react-native-sensors'
project(':react-native-sensors').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-sensors/android')
were both there in android/settings.gradle
dependencies {
implementation project(':react-native-sensors')
implementation fileTree(dir: "libs", include: ["*.jar"])
//noinspection GradleDynamicVersion
implementation "com.facebook.react:react-native:+" // From node_modules
I had to add implementation project(':react-native-sensors')
I don't think my code matters yet but App.js:
import React, {useState, useEffect, useRef} from 'react';
import { StyleSheet,ScrollView,SafeAreaView,Platform, View,Text } from 'react-native';
export default function App() {
var Rndr =
<Text>asdf</Text>
return Rndr
}
package.json:
{
"name": "proj8",
"version": "0.0.1",
"private": true,
"scripts": {
"android": "react-native run-android",
"ios": "react-native run-ios",
"start": "react-native start",
"test": "jest",
"lint": "eslint ."
},
"dependencies": {
"react": "16.13.1",
"react-native": "0.63.3",
"react-native-sensors": "^7.0.1"
},
"devDependencies": {
"#babel/core": "^7.8.4",
"#babel/runtime": "^7.8.4",
"#react-native-community/eslint-config": "^1.1.0",
"babel-jest": "^25.1.0",
"eslint": "^6.5.1",
"jest": "^25.1.0",
"metro-react-native-babel-preset": "^0.59.0",
"react-test-renderer": "16.13.1"
},
"jest": {
"preset": "react-native"
}
}

Answer 1

I encountered the same problem. This occurs because react-native-sensors has a minsdk version is 17 and react-native's default minsdk version is 16 Its quite easy to solve.
Just go to android/build.gradle
Change minSdkVersion to anything above 17
Before
ext {
buildToolsVersion = "29.0.2"
minSdkVersion = 16
compileSdkVersion = 29
targetSdkVersion = 29
}
After
ext {
buildToolsVersion = "29.0.2"
minSdkVersion = 19
compileSdkVersion = 29
targetSdkVersion = 29
}