Unable to install in Expo 54 using instructions from online docs

[crrobinson14]

Which package/packages do you use?

• [] @stream-io/video-react-sdk
• [X ] @stream-io/video-react-native-sdk
• @stream-io/video-client

Describe the bug
While trying to install this package per the instructions in the Web portal (npm install @stream-io/video-react-native-sdk @config-plugins/react-native-webrtc expo-build-properties expo-dev-client react-native-safe-area-context --force although we had the last few already) we get this error while trying to do a pod install in the ios directory:

[!] Unable to find a specification for `stream-react-native-webrtc` depended upon by `stream-video-react-native

When reviewing the podspec for this SDK we can see this dependency:

  s.dependency "stream-react-native-webrtc"

But https://cocoapods.org/ does not have a listing for this package.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create any Expo project using any means you like.
2. Run npm install @stream-io/video-react-native-sdk. You can install the rest if you want, but it doesn't matter.
3. Run yarn prebuild-clean. You will get this error doing that, or a manual cd ios && pod install with or without --repo-update.

Expected behavior
The library's dependencies should exist.

Version

• 1.26.2

Additional context
It appears as if this https://github.com/GetStream/react-native-webrtc/blob/687b266ace4dbf45ff424bcd8c97123acee8a09d/stream-react-native-webrtc.podspec is somehow related or the intended source of this dependency, but it's (apparently) not published to CocoaPods so it can't be found there.

[oliverlaz]

hi @crrobinson14, can you try installing @stream-io/react-native-webrtc as well to your app? I believe it should solve the issue for you.
Here is a snippet from our docs explaining which packages should be installed:

• https://getstream.io/video/docs/react-native/setup/installation/expo/

npx expo install \
  @stream-io/video-react-native-sdk \
  @stream-io/react-native-webrtc \
  @config-plugins/react-native-webrtc \
  react-native-svg \
  @react-native-community/netinfo \
  expo-build-properties

[crrobinson14]

Hmmm. We did follow that before getting the error (it's how we got @stream-io/video-react-native-sdk installed in the first place) but after trying the ye-olde-RN-trick of completely removing node_modules and yarn.lock and-reinstalling everything, it seems to have taken. But now when building the project in XCode for iOS we're getting a new error, could this be a version issue? This is with XCode 26.1.1 building for iOS 26, on Expo 54.

Include of non-modular header inside framework module 'stream_react_native_webrtc.RCTConvert_WebRTC': '/Users/chad/projects/propel/mobile/ios/Pods/Headers/Public/React-Core/React/RCTConvert.h'

There are five more errors but they're all the same non-modular header issue. This time we tried all the usual tricks like clearing the build folder and derived.

[santhoshvai]

@crrobinson14

could you try doing this please.. invertase/react-native-firebase#8657 (comment)

this seems to be because of an issue on expo 54: expo/expo#39233

[santhoshvai]

This should happen only if you were adding useFrameworks": "static", in app.json, doing the below part would also fix it

      "ios": {
        "useFrameworks": "static",
        "forceStaticLinking": [
            //.. the statically linked libraries
          "stream-react-native-webrtc",
        ]
      }