Can't start react-native-youtube on Ubuntu/Android

[mlapis]

Hi,
I am trying to make react-native-youtube run locally on my Ubuntu 18.04 + Android. I installed it with following command in my react native app:

npm install react-native-youtube -S

Unfortunately I get following error message when starting the app.

Invariant Violation: Invariant Violation: requireNativeComponent: "ReactYouTube" was not found in the UIManager.
I am not quite sure what is the reason for this and have a hard time debugging it, as I am quite new to react native. Any help how to debug it better is also greatly appreciated. I am not quite sure to be honest if this is an issue with react-native-youtube or something on my side.

[davidohayon669]

@mlapis seems like a problem with connecting the library. try removing node_modules and install everything again

[mlapis]

@davidohayon669 thank you for the very fast answer! I just tried it with

$ rm -R node_modules/
$ npm install

Unfortunately the result is pretty much the same. I have to add that I am using expo. Is there a chance this might cause any issues like that?

[davidohayon669]

@mlapis AFAIK expo does not support linking native libraries

[mlapis]

I will check it out without expo. Thank you!