setEventEmitterCallback NoSuchMethodError during app startup on Android API 26

[leoogh]

Description

Using the event emitter support in a RN 0.76.3 Turbo Module, the simulator or device crashes during app startup, with logcat error:
JNI DETECTED ERROR IN APPLICATION: JNI IsAssignableFrom called with pending exception java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: no non-static method "Lcom/calcturbo/CalcturboModule;.setEventEmitterCallback(Lcom/facebook/react/bridge/CxxCallbackImpl;)V"

This only happens when using Android API 26 (Oreo 8.1).
When using API 27 or higher it works fine. App runs also fine on iOS

Steps to reproduce

• prerequisites: Android SDK 35 was installed and RN apps can be built on your mac

• clone the git repo

• cd ./ReproducerApp

• if not installed yet, install yarn with npm i -g yarn

• yarn

• start an android simulator with api 26 (Oreo 8.0)

• npx react-native run-android

  • should build and then crash the app on the simulator with errors mentioned above

• switch to another android simulator with api 27 (Oreo 8.1)

• npx react-native run-android

• should build and run fine

React Native Version

0.76.3

Affected Platforms

Runtime - Android

Areas

TurboModule - The New Native Module System

Output of npx react-native info

System:
  OS: macOS 14.7.1
  CPU: (10) arm64 Apple M1 Pro
  Memory: 79.28 MB / 32.00 GB
  Shell:
    version: "5.9"
    path: /bin/zsh
Binaries:
  Node:
    version: 22.9.0
    path: /opt/homebrew/bin/node
  Yarn:
    version: 1.22.22
    path: /opt/homebrew/bin/yarn
  npm:
    version: 10.8.2
    path: /opt/homebrew/bin/npm
  Watchman:
    version: 2024.10.14.00
    path: /opt/homebrew/bin/watchman
Managers:
  CocoaPods:
    version: 1.15.2
    path: /opt/homebrew/bin/pod
SDKs:
  iOS SDK:
    Platforms:
      - DriverKit 24.1
      - iOS 18.1
      - macOS 15.1
      - tvOS 18.1
      - visionOS 2.1
      - watchOS 11.1
  Android SDK: Not Found
IDEs:
  Android Studio: 2024.1 AI-241.19072.14.2412.12360217
  Xcode:
    version: 16.1/16B40
    path: /usr/bin/xcodebuild
Languages:
  Java:
    version: 17.0.12
    path: /usr/bin/javac
  Ruby:
    version: 2.6.10
    path: /usr/bin/ruby
npmPackages:
  "@react-native-community/cli":
    installed: 15.0.1
    wanted: 15.0.1
  react:
    installed: 18.3.1
    wanted: 18.3.1
  react-native:
    installed: 0.76.3
    wanted: 0.76.3
  react-native-macos: Not Found
npmGlobalPackages:
  "*react-native*": Not Found
Android:
  hermesEnabled: true
  newArchEnabled: true
iOS:
  hermesEnabled: true
  newArchEnabled: true

Stacktrace or Logs

2024-11-28 18:42:59.661  4242-4286  ReactNativeJS           com.reproducerapp                    I  Bridgeless mode is enabled
2024-11-28 18:42:59.664  4242-4286  ReactNativeJS           com.reproducerapp                    I  Running "ReproducerApp" with {"rootTag":11,"initialProps":{},"fabric":true}
2024-11-28 18:42:59.832  4242-4286  zygote64                com.reproducerapp                    A  java_vm_ext.cc:504] JNI DETECTED ERROR IN APPLICATION: JNI IsAssignableFrom called with pending exception java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: no non-static method "Lcom/calcturbo/CalcturboModule;.setEventEmitterCallback(Lcom/facebook/react/bridge/CxxCallbackImpl;)V"
2024-11-28 18:42:59.832  4242-4286  zygote64                com.reproducerapp                    A  java_vm_ext.cc:504]   at void com.facebook.jni.NativeRunnable.run() (NativeRunnable.java:-2)
2024-11-28 18:42:59.832  4242-4286  zygote64                com.reproducerapp                    A  java_vm_ext.cc:504]   at void android.os.Handler.handleCallback(android.os.Message) (Handler.java:789)
2024-11-28 18:42:59.832  4242-4286  zygote64                com.reproducerapp                    A  java_vm_ext.cc:504]   at void android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(android.os.Message) (Handler.java:98)
2024-11-28 18:42:59.832  4242-4286  zygote64                com.reproducerapp                    A  java_vm_ext.cc:504]   at void com.facebook.react.bridge.queue.MessageQueueThreadHandler.dispatchMessage(android.os.Message) (MessageQueueThreadHandler.java:27)
2024-11-28 18:42:59.832  4242-4286  zygote64                com.reproducerapp                    A  java_vm_ext.cc:504]   at void android.os.Looper.loop() (Looper.java:164)
2024-11-28 18:42:59.832  4242-4286  zygote64                com.reproducerapp                    A  java_vm_ext.cc:504]   at void com.facebook.react.bridge.queue.MessageQueueThreadImpl.lambda$startNewBackgroundThread$2(com.facebook.react.common.futures.SimpleSettableFuture) (MessageQueueThreadImpl.java:217)
2024-11-28 18:42:59.832  4242-4286  zygote64                com.reproducerapp                    A  java_vm_ext.cc:504]   at void com.facebook.react.bridge.queue.MessageQueueThreadImpl$$ExternalSyntheticLambda1.run() (D8$$SyntheticClass:0)
2024-11-28 18:42:59.832  4242-4286  zygote64                com.reproducerapp                    A  java_vm_ext.cc:504]   at void java.lang.Thread.run() (Thread.java:764)
2024-11-28 18:42:59.832  4242-4286  zygote64                com.reproducerapp                    A  java_vm_ext.cc:504] 
2024-11-28 18:42:59.832  4242-4286  zygote64                com.reproducerapp                    A  java_vm_ext.cc:504]     in call to IsAssignableFrom
2024-11-28 18:42:59.832  4242-4286  zygote64                com.reproducerapp                    A  java_vm_ext.cc:504]     from void com.facebook.jni.NativeRunnable.run()

Reproducer

https://github.com/leoogh/RNBugRepro1

Screenshots and Videos

No response

[CodeWithBlaze]

Facing same issue. Did anyone have any update on how to solve this ?

[cortinico]

As an immediate workaround, you can add the following in the module code:

class CalcturboModule(reactContext: ReactApplicationContext) :
  NativeCalcturboSpec(reactContext) {

+ private fun setEventEmitterCallback(eventEmitterCallback: CxxCallbackImpl) {
+   super.mEventEmitterCallback = eventEmitterCallback
+ }
}

I verified that the crash disappears.
However I'm looking into this a bit further to understand why it's happening on API lvl 26

[CodeWithBlaze]

Will try it thank you for the information and help

[CodeWithBlaze]

the above solution works for me thnx

[cortinico]

This is going to be fixed for good with #48606 in React Native 0.78