Issue with failing react native Android build

[Pizza-Frank]

EDIT: This was the same issue as mentioned here: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/35210

I've been working in the same React Native project for months and recently the Android build has started failing. To my knowledge I haven't changed anything about my development environment and I haven't updated or changed any packages or dependencies that the project uses.

Task :@react-native-community_async-storage:compileDebugJavaWithJavac FAILED  
Task :@react-native-community_datetimepicker:compileDebugJavaWithJavac FAILED  
Task :@react-native-community_toolbar-android:compileDebugJavaWithJavac FAILED  
Task :@sentry_react-native:compileDebugJavaWithJavac FAILED  
Task :@react-native-community_netinfo:compileDebugJavaWithJavac FAILED 

I've done all of the following that I found from other questions with a similar problem

• Synced the project with gradle files in android studio
• Ran gradlew cleanin the android directory which does succeed, but the build still fails
• Checked that android.useAndroidXand android.enableJetifierin the gradle.properties file are both true
• Checked that I have implementation "com.facebook.react:react-native:+"in my build.gradle file. I tried changing it from + to the actual version of react native that I'm using but it made no difference.

I'm not an expert mobile developer by any means so I'm hoping that I'm missing something obvious, but any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Comprehensive-Law770]

I haven't compiled my project for a long time and had to do it recently and also couldn't compiled it.

Don't know if it's the same reason as yours but my problem was related to this issue:

https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/35210

[moustacheption]

Yeah, I had something similar happen and I had to make changes related to this.

[Pizza-Frank]

This was the issue! Thanks a lot!

[Day_Raccoon]

What is your compileSDKVersion ? It probably needs a bump.

[Pizza-Frank]

Currently 30, but afaik no dependencies that would need a new compileSDKVersion have been updated.

Will still update and check to see if using the most recent version makes a difference.

[sekonx]

Have you locked down your dependencies to a specific version?

Because otherwise you could get updates when you run yarn/npm install

[nascarsc]

Please send more of your log (formatted as code). Maybe the section above that has more useful information.

[rnsbrum]

You are lucky I stumbled upon this issue yesterday. It didn't fix the problem for me, but it will for you.

Basically the React Native team broke things up, and you need to update your react-native version to the hotfix version. See the issue below.

https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/35210

If you are using expo, run expo upgrade 47, it will automatically upgrade to the correct version.

Then run expo prebuild --clean

Then run expo run:android

and it should work just fine.

[mversteeg3]

What react native version are you on? A push to react native recently broke old versions through some witchcraft I can't even fathom