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💡 Overview

Drop the @react-native-firebase/* runtime dependency from the Stream Video RN SDK's ringing push flow. FCM reaches the SDK through callingx's native event bus, with StreamMessagingService now extending Google's
FirebaseMessagingService directly.

Consumers who installed RNFirebase purely to make Stream ringing work can uninstall it. Those who still need RNFirebase for their own flows (analytics, non-ringing display) can keep it — the Expo config plugin auto-detects it
symmetric with existing expo-notifications detection and generates a service that extends their chosen base, delegating ring pushes to Stream and forwarding tokens for device registration.

Breaking change: callingx's StreamMessagingService no longer extends ReactNativeFirebaseMessagingService. Anyone who referenced it by that supertype needs to adjust. firebaseDataHandler is kept as a deprecated no-op so existing consumer wiring continues to compile.

📝 Implementation notes

Pin firebase-messaging at 21.0.0 (the minimum, not the latest)

Pinning at the floor rather than the latest means Gradle's "highest version wins" resolution always respects the consumer's own Firebase BOM. A consumer on BOM 33 or 35 or any future version gets exactly what they asked for; our pin is just a safety net saying "we need at least this." Pinning high would force consumers upward unnecessarily and risk mixed-BOM artifact states when they're deliberately on an older Firebase stack.

🎫 Ticket: https://linear.app/stream/issue/RN-437/react-native-firebase-dependency-dependency-removal

📑 Docs: https://github.com/GetStream/getstream.io/pull/582

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  • New Features
    • Added access to the current Android push notification token and notifications when it refreshes.
    • Added a consistent token retrieval method across platforms; it returns an empty value on iOS.
    • Android push notification setup now supports Expo Notifications and React Native Firebase messaging configurations.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved handling of incoming call notifications by validating required call details before processing.
    • Skips sending push registration updates when the initial Android token is empty.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

CallingX adds cross-platform FCM token retrieval and Android token-refresh events. The SDK uses CallingX for Android push-token registration. The Expo config plugin updates messaging-service selection and manifest handling. Sample apps update their Firebase messaging setup.

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FCM token API and Android service

Layer / File(s) Summary
CallingX token API and event contract
packages/react-native-callingx/src/types.ts, packages/react-native-callingx/src/spec/NativeCallingx.ts, packages/react-native-callingx/src/CallingxModule.ts, packages/react-native-callingx/android/src/{oldarch,newarch}/.../CallingxModule.kt, packages/react-native-callingx/ios/Callingx.mm
CallingX adds getFcmToken() and the fcmTokenRefresh event. Android exposes the current FCM token and emits refresh events; iOS resolves token requests with an empty string.
Android FCM service and token events
packages/react-native-callingx/android/build.gradle, packages/react-native-callingx/android/src/main/...
StreamMessagingService now extends FirebaseMessagingService and publishes refreshed tokens through CallEventBus. CallingxModuleImpl retrieves the current token and forwards refresh events to JavaScript. The manifest and helper update service integration instructions and declarations.

Expo service configuration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Service selection, generation, and manifest updates
packages/react-native-sdk/expo-config-plugin/src/withAndroidMessagingService.ts, packages/react-native-sdk/expo-config-plugin/__tests__/withAndroidMessagingService.test.ts
The plugin detects React Native Firebase and selects a service base class, while generated services forward token refreshes. Manifest updates remove competing FCM service entries. Tests cover base selection, generated source, manifest changes, and idempotency. The plugin’s Firebase Gradle dependency injection and related tests are removed.

SDK push integration and sample apps

Layer / File(s) Summary
Push registration, payload types, and Firebase integration updates
packages/react-native-sdk/src/utils/push/*, packages/react-native-sdk/package.json, packages/react-native-callingx/package.json, sample-apps/react-native/*
The SDK retrieves and subscribes to tokens through CallingX, and ring-push handling accepts RingCallPushPayload. Firebase messaging loader modules and package declarations are removed. The tutorial removes Firebase configuration, while the dogfood app updates its Firebase messaging API usage and dependency versions.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SDK
  participant CallingxModuleImpl
  participant FirebaseMessagingService
  participant CallEventBus
  SDK->>CallingxModuleImpl: Request current token
  CallingxModuleImpl->>SDK: Resolve token
  FirebaseMessagingService->>CallEventBus: Publish refreshed token
  CallEventBus->>CallingxModuleImpl: Deliver token refresh action
  CallingxModuleImpl->>SDK: Emit fcmTokenRefresh with token
  SDK->>SDK: Send token through setDeviceToken
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 0aba0

Consumers using both Expo notifications and RNFirebase may stop receiving refreshed tokens through RNFirebase, so the service integration should be corrected before merge.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 0aba0

This changes who owns Android push delivery and token rotation. Mixed Expo and React Native Firebase installations can lose a previously forwarded token-refresh path, potentially leaving downstream device registration stale. Explicit service routing mitigates some integration risks, but consumer-specific behavior remains unverified. No privilege escalation has been established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · architecture · inferred: With Expo and RNFirebase both installed, automatic Expo selection no longer preserves the previous RNFirebase token-refresh forwarding path. The generated service removes RNFirebase's service registration and delegates its superclass callback only to Expo, while forwardNewToken now targets CallingX exclusively. Consumers relying on RNFirebase refresh callbacks for other device-registration flows can retain stale registrations. Stream's own forwarding remains intact; explicit RNFirebase base selection preserves RNFirebase's selected superclass path. The downstream callback impact is inferred because the installed RNFirebase implementation was not verified.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated reach is consumer Android applications using these messaging-service integrations and their token-registration dependents. The inspected routing changes do not establish cross-tenant access, broader cloud authority, or a remotely reachable privilege-escalation path. Installed third-party and backend behavior remain outside verified coverage.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The retained architecture concern is loss of refresh propagation to another notification consumer, not a verified attacker-controlled registration or data-disclosure path. Stream still receives forwarded tokens. Removing an RNFirebase service registration alone does not establish loss of all RNFirebase message delivery; separate receiver/headless delivery was identified in earlier third-party source inspection.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The default messaging service and call-event receiver remain non-exported, and the generated service is also non-exported. Normal token producers supply a String token. Although the bridge permits a refresh event without a token, no alternate reachable producer of that malformed event was established.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Registration remains tied to the connected client and token/user deduplication key, excludes anonymous users, and installs logout removal. The hook removes its listener on client or user changes. Deduplication is updated before registration succeeds, and initial and refresh operations are not serialized; these limitations existed before this PR and are not retained as newly introduced security concerns.
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🟠 Major · Restore the Firebase dependencies or migrate the Android listeners. · package.json:18-24

sample-apps/react-native/dogfood/package.json:18-24
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Restore the Firebase dependencies or migrate the Android listeners.

App.tsx calls setPushConfig() during startup. The Android implementation then imports @react-native-firebase/messaging and registers FCM listeners. Dogfood no longer declares that module or its required app peer.

The lockfile still contains stale Firebase entries for dogfood, but the current package manifest does not. Regenerating the lockfile or installing dogfood independently can therefore remove the module and break Android bundling.

Suggested fix
     "@react-native-community/netinfo": "12.0.1",
     "@react-native-community/push-notification-ios": "^1.12.0",
+    "@react-native-firebase/app": "^24.1.1",
+    "@react-native-firebase/messaging": "^24.1.1",
     "@react-navigation/elements": "^2.9.36",
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Dogfood’s Android push startup relies on Firebase modules that are missing from
its manifest. In the dogfood package dependencies, restore declarations for
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- Line 229: Update the service handling around KNOWN_FCM_COMPETITOR_SERVICES so
selecting Expo as the base does not suppress React Native Firebase token-refresh
callbacks. Keep a single FCM service and ensure its onNewToken flow forwards
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...new Set([
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve RN Firebase token callbacks when Expo is the base.

When both packages are installed, resolveBaseClass selects Expo. This removal then disables the RN Firebase service, while the generated onNewToken calls only Expo and StreamMessagingHelper.

RN Firebase v24.1.1 emits its token-refresh event from ReactNativeFirebaseMessagingService.onNewToken. Removing that service without forwarding its callback stops RN Firebase onTokenRefresh listeners from receiving rotated tokens. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Keep a single FCM service, but bridge token refreshes to both installed integrations. Alternatively, reject the unsupported combination with an actionable configuration error.

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🟠 Major · Preserve Firebase token registration when CallingX is absent. · android.ts:21

packages/react-native-sdk/src/utils/push/android.ts:21
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve Firebase token registration when CallingX is absent.

When Android has pushProviderName but does not install CallingX, initAndroidPushToken returns before it calls getToken() or addDevice(). The Android hook reaches this helper for a connected user with push configuration. CallingX is optional, and the merge-base implementation registered the token through Firebase Messaging. Restore that Firebase fallback while keeping the CallingX path for installations that provide it.

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-import { getCallingxLibIfAvailable } from './libs';
+import {
+  getCallingxLibIfAvailable,
+  getFirebaseMessagingLib,
+} from './libs';
@@
-    !pushConfig.android?.pushProviderName ||
-    !callingx
+    !pushConfig.android?.pushProviderName
   ) {
     return;
   }
@@
-  const subscription = callingx.addEventListener(
+  if (!callingx) {
+    const messaging = getFirebaseMessagingLib();
+    const unsubscribe = messaging().onTokenRefresh((refreshedToken) =>
+      setDeviceToken(refreshedToken),
+    );
+    setUnsubscribeListener(unsubscribe);
+    const token = await messaging().getToken();
+    await setDeviceToken(token);
+    return;
+  }
+
+  const subscription = callingx.addEventListener(
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