NativeScript 7 The new package uses a shared library that is not available

[bufke]

Problem

On a new NativeScript project, nativescript-wear-os produces the error Unable to apply changes on device: emulator-5554. Error is: The new package uses a shared library that is not available..

Reproduction steps

• ns create
• ns plugin add nativescript-wear-os
• Update app.gradle minSdkVersion to 26 (avoids build error)

or clone https://gitlab.com/bufke/nativescript-wear-os-7-bug

Note that it's not necessary to actually use nativescript-wear-os. Just adding it causes builds to fail. It may be missing com.github.bradmartin:SmartWearOs but I couldn't find a work around.

[Erudition]

Same issue here, wish I knew about this before upgrading nativescript.
To add details: I can still deploy to wear os. But I'm trying to get my app to run on phones as well, and going back to phones is when I see this error.

[Erudition]

Workaround: dig into this package (in your node-modules folder - will get overridden unfortunately) and find include.gradle.

nativescript-wear-os/src/platforms/android/include.gradle

Line 10 in a90fb42

implementation 'com.github.bradmartin:SmartWearOs:0.2.0'

change that from implementation to compileOnly.

Now it builds again!

As a side effect this allowed me to depend on com.google.android.gms:play-services-wearable:17.1.0 in my app, when the previous configuration forced me to use 17.0.0.