React Native Lottie: Cannot read property 'play' of undefined

I'm using the Lottie imperative API to display a looping animation. The imperative API works fine on all of my components except one that uses React Native Sound. I assume the problem is that both libraries are called with .play(). Is this possible?

Lottie: this.animation.play(); React Native Sound: this.sound.play()

After calling the Lottie method, I'm getting the Error Message:

Cannot read property 'play' of undefined

Any Ideas?

Thanks in advance.

I eventually figured it out. React Native Sound of course wasn't the problem - it might have just delayed the initialization of Lottie and thus animation was still undefined when I called it.

The solution is to build in a timer and was already suggested in this thread: https://github.com/airbnb/lottie-react-native/issues/21

  componentDidMount() {
      this.initAnimation();
  }

  initAnimation(){
    if (!this.animation){
      setTimeout(() => {
        this.initAnimation();
      }, 100);
    } else {
        this.animation.play();
    }
  }