Cannot get referrer properties using react-native-install-referrer

Question

I am trying to implement a referral system in a React Native Android app, using the react-native-install-referrer package, with the following code:

import RNInstallReferrer from 'react-native-install-referrer';

const handleReferrer = async () =>
    try {
        const referrer = await RNInstallReferrer.getReferrer();
    } catch (e) {
        console.log(e)}
    }
}

It fails with this error:

Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'getReferrer') while using react-native-install-referrer

What I am I doing wrong?