[🐛] Pod install Fails Due to GoogleDataTransport Version Conflict Between @react-native-firebase/messaging and react-native-vision-camera-ocr-plus

[zahid502]

I’m encountering an issue with pod install failing due to a GoogleDataTransport version conflict between the libraries @react-native-firebase/messaging and react-native-vision-camera-ocr-plus.

Environment:

react: 19.1.0
react-native: 0.81.1
@react-native-firebase/app: ^24.0.0
@react-native-firebase/messaging: ^24.0.0
react-native-vision-camera-ocr-plus: ^1.2.4

Issue:

When I run pod install in my iOS project, I get the following error message:

_[!] CocoaPods could not find compatible versions for pod "GoogleDataTransport":
  In Podfile:
    RNFBMessaging (from `../node_modules/@react-native-firebase/messaging`) was resolved to 24.0.0, which depends on
      Firebase/Messaging (= 12.10.0) was resolved to 12.10.0, which depends on
        FirebaseMessaging (~> 12.10.0) was resolved to 12.10.0, which depends on
          GoogleDataTransport (~> 10.1)

    RNVisionCameraOCR (from `../node_modules/react-native-vision-camera-ocr-plus`) was resolved to 1.2.4, which depends on
      GoogleMLKit/TextRecognitionKorean was resolved to 2.3.0, which depends on
        MLKitTextRecognitionKorean (~> 1.0.0-beta1) was resolved to 1.0.0-beta1, which depends on
          MLKitCommon (~> 3.1) was resolved to 3.1.0, which depends on
            GoogleDataTransport (~> 9.0)_

As you can see,
@react-native-firebase/messaging requires GoogleDataTransport (> 10.1),
but react-native-vision-camera-ocr-plus depends on GoogleDataTransport (> 9.0),
leading to the conflict when running pod install.

Attempted Solution:

I added the following to my Podfile in an attempt to resolve the conflict by targeting iOS 16+ since react-native-vision-camera-ocr-plus uses ML Kit 8, which is compatible with Firebase and GoogleDataTransport 10:

platform :ios, '16.0'

Request:
Is there a cleaner way to resolve this conflict without needing to change the iOS version requirement in the Podfile?
Are there any planned updates to react-native-vision-camera-ocr-plus to support the newer GoogleDataTransport 10.1 version?
What’s the best way to handle this issue while using both @react-native-firebase/messaging and react-native-vision-camera-ocr-plus together?

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[mikehardy]

I believe the cleaner way is to get the other library to update their transitive dependencies to a newer version that itself has a transitive on GoogleDataTransport that's current / harmonious with the one our transitive of FirebaseMessaging pulls in

I'd propose a patch over there for them to upgrade that dependency if at all possible