diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 48cc5d62b..d6d409c26 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -8,8 +8,13 @@ import 'react-native-gesture-handler';
 // polyfills
 import 'react-native-get-random-values';
 import { TextDecoder } from 'text-encoding';
+import Long from 'long';
+import protobuf from 'protobufjs';
 global.TextDecoder = TextDecoder;
 
+protobuf.util.Long = Long;
+protobuf.configure();
+
 import {AppRegistry} from 'react-native';
 import './shim.js'
 import App from './App.tsx';
diff --git a/models/BaseModel.ts b/models/BaseModel.ts
index 27a632969..f2b691fa2 100644
--- a/models/BaseModel.ts
+++ b/models/BaseModel.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,15 @@
 export default class BaseModel {
     constructor(data?: any) {
         Object.keys(data).forEach((field: any) => {
-            this[field] = data[field];
+            // Handle Longs
+            if (
+                data[field].high !== undefined &&
+                data[field].low !== undefined
+            ) {
+                this[field] = data[field].toString();
+            } else {
+                this[field] = data[field];
+            }
         });
     }
 }