RN One of RECEIVER_EXPORTED or RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED should be specified when a receiver isn't being registered exclusively for system broadcasts

I'm upgrading my targetSdkVersion to 34

buildscript {
    ext {
        buildToolsVersion = "29.0.3"
        minSdkVersion = 26
        compileSdkVersion = 33
        targetSdkVersion = 34
        supportLibVersion = 34
    }

and I've run into this error when running the react-native app.

I've seen a lot of solutions online that suggest adding

context.registerReceiver(broadcastReceiver, intentFilter, RECEIVER_EXPORTED);

But they don't mention where it needs to be added. I've only worked on the react-native side so it would help if I had more details about the Android specific updates.

Solution

I added the following to MainApplication.java file.

import android.content.BroadcastReceiver; 
import android.content.Intent; 
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.IntentFilter;
import android.os.Build;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;

and before public void onCreate() in the same file,

  @Override
  public Intent registerReceiver(@Nullable BroadcastReceiver receiver, IntentFilter filter) {
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 34 && getApplicationInfo().targetSdkVersion >= 34) {
      return super.registerReceiver(receiver, filter, Context.RECEIVER_EXPORTED);
    } else {
      return super.registerReceiver(receiver, filter);
    }
  }

In android/build.gradle under dependencies

classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.3.1")

In android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.5.1-all.zip

I also kept getting the error

couldn't find DSO to load: libhermes.so

For which I had to upgrade react-native-reanimated to 3.5.4.

I also upgraded my react-native-screens to 3.22.0.

My other main library versions

    "react-native": "0.71.4",
    "react": "18.2.0",
    "@react-navigation/native": "^6.1.6",
    "@react-navigation/stack": "^6.3.16",

This fixed things for me