chore: improve bridgeless interop layer compatibility

[behenate]

Why

In react-native 0.74 when new architecture is enabled bridgeless mode will be enabled by default.
By default modules which use the bridge will use an interop layer but it's not perfect. After creating a project, which uses react-native 0.74.0-rc.6 both Android and iOS don't work at all under bridgeless.

How

I managed to get the features of the example app working on iOS by removing some declarations from RNTrackPlayerBridge.m: getSleepTimerProgress, setSleepTimer, sleepWhenActiveTrackReachesEnd and clearSleepTimer are declared, but never implemented (correct me if I'm wrong), which causes a segmentation fault when using bridgeless. Removing them fixes the issue. All of the functionality seems to be working ok after the fix.

On Android some of the @ReactMethod annotated functions are assigned a value of scope.launch. This causes the interop layer to unnecessarily try to pass the returned Jobs to the JS side, which fails. Added a wrapper for scope.launch, so that the assignment can be kept for better readability, but the function return type is changed to Unit.

Unfortunately some things still don't work well with bridgeless on Android. Some of the events aren't sent correctly (eq. the PlaybackActiveTrackChanged). For some reason all of the notification controls become broken. Those issues are likely easy fixes, but I currently don't have time to learn the codebase and fix them 😕

[behenate]

@dcvz It would be good to have bridgeless working before 0.74 is released. Do you guys have plans for fixing the Android issues I mentioned?

[brentvatne]

@dcvz - any chance you could review this? react-native-track-player came up as one of the top 400 most popular packages in the react-native and we're hoping to get as many popular libraries as possible compatible leading up to the launch of [email protected] - reactwg/react-native-new-architecture#167

[lovegaoshi]

thank you for the work @behenate I put together a bare minimum example app
https://github.com/lovegaoshi/RNTPExampleNewArch

for the event issue, it's actually none of the hooks/useEvents work anymore; the addEventListener inside doesnt do anything I believe. however TP.addEventListener as in SetupService works. tbh i'm completely lost with the new arch stuff, if anyone have any insight, thank you very much in advance
hooks are set up as https://github.com/doublesymmetry/react-native-track-player/blob/main/src/hooks/useTrackPlayerEvents.ts

notification is a bigger issue imo bc all of that should be native.

[lovegaoshi]

I guess somehow bridge and bridgeless are running concurrently? RNTP internal hooks is registered as NOBRIDGE and listeners added via AppRegistry.registerHeadlessTask is registered in the bridge? they use different NativeEventEmitters and the nobridge ones arent updating at all.
the ... count logs are console.log(emitter.listenerCount(event), event, 'count')

(NOBRIDGE) LOG  Bridgeless mode is enabled
(NOBRIDGE) LOG  Running "RNTPExampleNewArch" with {"rootTag":241,"initialProps":{},"fabric":true}
(NOBRIDGE) LOG  deb playback-progress-updated
(NOBRIDGE) LOG  0 playback-progress-updated count
LOG  0 remote-pause count
LOG  0 remote-play count
LOG  0 remote-next count
(NOBRIDGE) LOG  getInitialURL null
LOG  0 remote-previous count
LOG  0 remote-jump-forward count
LOG  0 remote-jump-backward count
LOG  0 remote-seek count
LOG  0 remote-duck count
LOG  0 playback-queue-ended count
LOG  0 playback-active-track-changed count
LOG  0 playback-progress-updated count
LOG  0 playback-play-when-ready-changed count
LOG  0 playback-state count
LOG  0 playback-metadata-received count
LOG  0 metadata-chapter-received count
LOG  0 metadata-timed-received count
LOG  0 metadata-common-received count
LOG  1 playback-metadata-received count
LOG  Event.PlaybackProgressUpdated {"buffered": 1626.357, "duration": 0, "position": 1575.25, "track": 5}
(NOBRIDGE) LOG  deb playback-active-track-changed
(NOBRIDGE) LOG  0 playback-active-track-changed count
(NOBRIDGE) LOG  0 playback-state count
(NOBRIDGE) LOG  0 playback-play-when-ready-changed count
(NOBRIDGE) LOG  1 playback-state count
LOG  Event.PlaybackProgressUpdated {"buffered": 1657.469, "duration": 0, "position": 1577.249, "track": 5}
LOG  Event.PlaybackProgressUpdated {"buffered": 1659.454, "duration": 0, "position": 1579.249, "track": 5}
LOG  Event.PlaybackProgressUpdated {"buffered": 1661.466, "duration": 0, "position": 1581.251, "track": 5}
LOG  Event.PlaybackProgressUpdated {"buffered": 1663.451, "duration": 0, "position": 1583.252, "track": 5}
LOG  Event.PlaybackProgressUpdated {"buffered": 1665.462, "duration": 0, "position": 1585.251, "track": 5}
LOG  Event.PlaybackProgressUpdated {"buffered": 1667.448, "duration": 0, "position": 1587.252, "track": 5}
LOG  Event.PlaybackProgressUpdated {"buffered": 1669.459, "duration": 0, "position": 1589.251, "track": 5}
LOG  Event.PlaybackProgressUpdated {"buffered": 1671.444, "duration": 0, "position": 1591.247, "track": 5}
LOG  Event.PlaybackProgressUpdated {"buffered": 1673.456, "duration": 0, "position": 1593.251, "track": 5}

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[Medkhat]

Hi there! @lovegaoshi @behenate

RN version 0.75.1 has already been released. Does anyone have plans to improve this case, or have you found any solution for it?

[dcvz]

There’s some stuff in the works, but still needs more time to be refined.

[Medkhat]

There’s some stuff in the works, but still needs more time to be refined.

Thanks a lot, there are many guys here who are working on their startups and are using your invaluable package. I think this needs to be resolved as quickly as possible. If there are any needs from my side, I'm always happy to help in any way I can. :)

[migueldaipre]

Hey guys, any news ? I would like to help if needed

[lovegaoshi]

sure if u can help on facebook/react-native#46050 tia

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[Medkhat]

@lovegaoshi Hi! This issue is not only Android related, it also breaks the connection between the Metro bundler and the native side on iOS)

[lovegaoshi]

uh sure, u r welcome to report to fb too. im not an ios person.

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