After upgrading Nativescript to 6 android.support.v4 is missing and project fails to compile

Question

After upgrading Nativescript to 6 android.support.v4 library is missing and my project fails to compile throwing the following errors:

error TS2339: Property 'text' does not exist on type 'typeof v4'

and

error TS2339: Property 'widget' does not exist on type 'typeof v4'

And this is what I'm doing:

android.support.v4.widget.TextViewCompat.setAutoSizeTextTypeWithDefaults((this.whatLabel.nativeElement as Label).android, android.support.v4.widget.TextViewCompat.AUTO_SIZE_TEXT_TYPE_UNIFORM);

android.support.v4.text.BidiFormatter.getInstance(new java.util.Locale("iw")).unicodeWrap(text, android.support.v4.text.TextDirectionHeuristicsCompat.RTL)

My reference.d.ts file contains this line:

<reference path="../node_modules/tns-platform-declarations/android-22.d.ts" />

Tried also:

<reference path="../node_modules/tns-platform-declarations/android.d.ts" />

Answer 1

Finally found a solution.

let androidSupport=null;
let anyGlobal = global as any;
if (anyGlobal.androidx && anyGlobal.androidx.core)
{
    androidSupport = anyGlobal.androidx.core;
}
else if (android.support && android.support.v4) {
    androidSupport = android.support.v4;
}

androidSupport.widget.TextViewCompat.setAutoSizeTextTypeWithDefaults((this.whatLabel.nativeElement as Label).android, androidSupport.widget.TextViewCompat.AUTO_SIZE_TEXT_TYPE_UNIFORM);

androidSupport.text.BidiFormatter.getInstance(new java.util.Locale("iw")).unicodeWrap(text, androidSupport.text.TextDirectionHeuristicsCompat.RTL)

Source: http://fluentreports.com/blog/?p=720