react native app instantly crashes when adding senderID to react-native-push-notification configure

Question

react-native-push-notification works fine when calling PushNotification.configure() without senderID however, when adding it, the app closes with no log.

platform: android (real device)

react-native-push-notification: ^3.0.2

react-native: 0.49.3

I tried try catch and tried sentry, both did not catch the error

Answer 1

The problem was that I was using an incompatible version of play-services-gcm.

so I just changed force=true to force=false in app/build.gradle

compile ('com.google.android.gms:play-services-gcm:8.1.0') {
    force = false; <== Here
}