[FIXED] My React Native was working fine upto 4 November but now throwing an exception while Running yarn android

Issue

I have tried many solutions but all in vain, including this React Native Android build failure with different errors without any changes in code for past days due to publish of React Native version 0.71.0-rc.0 I am having deadline ahead and my project is not building from last 4 days, any help will be appreciated.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:checkDebugAarMetadata'.
> A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.CheckAarMetadataWorkAction
   > The minCompileSdk (31) specified in a
     dependency's AAR metadata (META-INF/com/android/build/gradle/aar-metadata.properties)
     is greater than this module's compileSdkVersion (android-30).
     Dependency: androidx.activity:activity-compose:1.4.0.
     AAR metadata file: /Users/dev/.gradle/caches/transforms-2/files-2.1/c35837abe789834d04f87678613d3ab9/jetified-activity-compose-1.4.0/META-INF/com/android/build/gradle/aar-metadata.properties.

* Try:
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I have tried compileSdkVersion = 31 targetSdkVersion = 31 after that I am getting

Execution failed for task ':react-native-incall-manager:compileDebugJavaWithJavac'.
> Compilation failed; see the compiler error output for details.

My build.gradle file is

// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.

buildscript {
    ext {
        buildToolsVersion = "30.0.2"
        minSdkVersion = 21
        compileSdkVersion = 31
        targetSdkVersion = 31
        androidXCore = "1.7.0" 
    }
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.2.1")
        // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
        // in the individual module build.gradle files
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        mavenLocal()
        maven {
            // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
            url("$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android")
        }
        maven {
            // Android JSC is installed from npm
            url("$rootDir/../node_modules/jsc-android/dist")
        }

        google()
        jcenter()
        maven { url 'https://www.jitpack.io' }
    }
}

React native version is "^0.66.3"

Solution

Your app was working fine before right so, please follow below steps and check

1. Revert back all the changes you have made after that (if you changed versions of sdk, gradle, java, react-native etc)
2. Delete node_modules
3. Delete build folders (android/build & android/app/build)
4. Recheck the package.json if the react-native version is as which was worked before (in your case 0.66.3)
5. Run npm install or yarn to install packages
6. Clean (remove gradle cache like mentioned here : https://stackoverflow.com/a/30450020/10657559) and rebuild the app by adding the below changes to your android/build.gradle file

def REACT_NATIVE_VERSION = new File(['node', '--print',"JSON.parse(require('fs').readFileSync(require.resolve('react-native/package.json'), 'utf-8')).version"].execute(null, rootDir).text.trim())


buildscript {
     // ...
}
    
    
allprojects {
    configurations.all {
          resolutionStrategy {
            force "com.facebook.react:react-native:" + REACT_NATIVE_VERSION
          }
    }
    // ...  
}

Ref: Fix and updates on Android build failures happening since Nov 4th 2022 #35210

Answered By - Thanhal
Answer Checked By - David Marino (JavaFixing Volunteer)