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Android Execution failed for task ':app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac'. - React Native

I am working on a react native application. when I try to build the applications using react-native run-android the build fails. Here is the output of the error that occurs.
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac'.
> Compilation failed; see the compiler error output for details.
* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.
* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org
Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 6.0.
Use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings.
See https://docs.gradle.org/5.4.1/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings
BUILD FAILED in 8s
253 actionable tasks: 5 executed, 248 up-to-date
error Could not install the app on the device, read the error above for details.
Make sure you have an Android emulator running or a device connected and have
set up your Android development environment:
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started.html
error Command failed: ./gradlew app:installDebug
debug Error: Command failed: ./gradlew app:installDebug
at checkExecSyncError (child_process.js:607:13)
at execFileSync (child_process.js:627:13)
at runOnAllDevices (/Users/FaisalHussain/mobile/node_modules/#react-native-community/cli/build/commands/runAndroid/runOnAllDevices.js:58:39)
at buildAndRun (/Users/FaisalHussain/mobile/node_modules/#react-native-community/cli/build/commands/runAndroid/runAndroid.js:142:41)
at then.result (/Users/FaisalHussain/mobile/node_modules/#react-native-community/cli/build/commands/runAndroid/runAndroid.js:104:12)
at <anonymous>
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:189:7)
The application was on a old version of react native (0.48.x) I have updated it to 0.59.10.
What I have done so far:
used jetifier to resolve issues with the plugins.
checked that the build tools version matches the compile sdk version
checked if the emulator is running.
Hence I have tried everything I could to resolve this but had no luck. Please do guide me on how to resolve this issue. Looking forward to your answers.

make sure you have followed all the necessary steps from the upgrade helper https://react-native-community.github.io/upgrade-helper/?from=0.48.0&to=0.59.10
also i would suggest you to upgrade to v0.60+ because there are breaking changes after v0.59.10.
having said that
before you run the app make sure your gradle is clean
run the following command to clean your gradle cd android && ./gradle clean
then later you can navigate back to your app folder cd .. and try and run again react-native run-android

Looks like your packages not working stable with Android side. It's better be update all packages and react native version to their last stable versions.
If you face with too much error while update, you can create fresh new react native project (with same package name with your current project), install all packages (and their dependencies) and copy your current project's source code to your new project.

Android in React Native does not allow similar packages to reside in the project.
In my case I had react-native-cookies and #react-native-cookies/cookies packages that add similar code to the Kotlin file upon build. This causes issue of similar imports in java JDK.
I removed one and it worked.

SOLVED at the same issue:
My solution was at /android/build.gradle file.
Somehow, the buildscript versions were wrong.
Follow the exact same step of RN documentation and make a totally new & clean project.
And compate the /android/build.gradle file > buildscript & dependencies part.
There should be some version differences.
It matters by your own local env settings.
After changing buildToolsVersion, ndkVersion, classpath, it worked fine again!!
also, remove duplicated libraries, as #Nimantha said.

'com.github.triplet.play' Some problems were found with the configuration of task ':app:generateAppNameReleasePlayResources'

After i have updated android studio to 3.4.2 and gradle,
when i run this line
gradlew publishApkappNameRelease
im getting this error :
* What went wrong: Some problems were found with the configuration of task ':app:generateappNameReleasePlayResources'.
> File 'E:\Projects\packagename\app\src\main\play' specified for property '$1' does not exist.
> File 'E:\Projects\packagename\app\src\appName\play' specified for property '$2' does not exist.
> File 'E:\Projects\packagename\app\src\release\play' specified for property '$3' does not exist.
> File 'E:\Projects\packagename\app\src\appNameRelease\play' specified for property '$4' does not exist.
* Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.
* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org
Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 6.0. Use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings. See https://docs.gradle.org/5.1.1/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings
BUILD FAILED in 2m 47s 56 actionable tasks: 55 executed, 1 from cache
note: this line is used to auto publish apk using
apply plugin: 'com.github.triplet.play'
classpath 'com.github.triplet.gradle:play-publisher:1.1.5'
same when i run this command line gradlew --recompile-scripts i get error
Unknown command-line option '--recompile-scripts'
These commands were running fine before the updates.
UPDATE:
when i try to update the triplet.play to any of t hose versions (2.2.1 - 2.2.0 - 2.1.1 - 2.1.0 - 2.0.0 - 2.0.0-rc2) i get this error
Could not find com.github.triplet.gradle:play-publisher:2.2.1.
Searched in the following locations:
- https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/github/triplet/gradle/play-publisher/2.2.1/play-publisher-2.2.1.pom
- https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/github/triplet/gradle/play-publisher/2.2.1/play-publisher-2.2.1.jar
- https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/github/triplet/gradle/play-publisher/2.2.1/play-publisher-2.2.1.pom
- https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/github/triplet/gradle/play-publisher/2.2.1/play-publisher-2.2.1.jar
- https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/github/triplet/gradle/play-publisher/2.2.1/play-publisher-2.2.1.pom
- https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/github/triplet/gradle/play-publisher/2.2.1/play-publisher-2.2.1.jar
Required by:
project :

Apparently this can be fixed by upgrading the version of the play-publisher plugin from 1.1.5 to 2.1.1 as per the GitHub issue here: https://github.com/Triple-T/gradle-play-publisher/issues/532
However, it seems that the newer versions of the plugin aren't available on all artifact repositories. I found it here which has clear steps of doing it: https://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/com.github.triplet.play
Lastly it is advised that you check their GitHub page again to make sure that the config you currently have is still compatible: https://github.com/Triple-T/gradle-play-publisher
With regards to gradlew --recompile-scripts, this has been deprecated and removed in the new version since most of the times the gradle daemon is running and ignores this option. More info here: https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/1425

First, add a new repo to your repositories on build.gradle (Project)
repositories {
maven { url 'https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/' }
}
Now , upgrade your classpath.
classpath 'com.github.triplet.gradle:play-publisher:2.1.1'

install gradle wrapper when build failes because of wrong gradle version

I'm new to Gradle and Java development and I'm having a hard time using a Gradle project which requires an old version of Gradle.
Basically, the problem is that every gradle command I run ends up with the same error:
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* Where:
Build file '/var/code/doron/reverb/libpulse-android/build.gradle' line: 10
* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':libpulse-android'.
> Failed to apply plugin [id 'android-library']
> Gradle version 1.10 is required. Current version is 4.10.2. If using the gradle wrapper, try editing the distributionUrl in /var/code/doron/reverb/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties to gradle-1.10-all.zip
* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.
* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org
Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 5.0.
Use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings.
See https://docs.gradle.org/4.10.2/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings
BUILD FAILED in 0s
From what I understood, the recommended way to work with this kind of project is to install and use the gradle wrapper - Use the ./gradlew command instead of the system's gradle. I have searched the internet and reached this web page: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/gradle_wrapper.html#sec:adding_wrapper Which basically says I should run:
gradle wrapper --gradle-version 1.10
But that ends in the same errors as above!
When searching for an answer, I have encountered this question: Getting error "Gradle version 1.10 is required. Current version is 1.12." when executing "gradle wrapper"? Which have failed to solve my problem. It seems the answers for that question only try to explain why the problem happens and not how to solve it.
Do you see why the problem is absurdly recursive? I can't install a needed version of Gradle in a wrapper because the build fails and the build fails because I don't use a specific version of gradle and I don't use the wrapper which I can't install.

If you don't yet have the Wrapper in your project: what you can do is to create a new temporary Gradle project, configure the wrapper in this project to match your needed gradle version, and then copy the wrapper related files into your initial project. If you already have a wrapper you can simply configure it by changing distribution url in ./gradle/wrapper/gradle.properties:
In details
1) create new empty project
mkdir tmp-project
cd tmp-project
gradle init
2) change wrapper version
gradle wrapper --gradle-version 1.10
3) check version (this will download the distribution)
$ ./gradlew --version
Downloading https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.10-bin.zip
......................................
------------------------------------------------------------
Gradle 1.10
------------------------------------------------------------
4) copy the wrapper related resources to your project:
./gradle/ directory
./gradlew script
./gradlew.bat script

open gradle-wrapper.properties in GradleScripts file change distributionUrl like below
#Thu Apr 12 11:14:54 IST 2018
distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.4-all.zip
don't forget to clean and rebuild project

How do you use the gradle javafx android builder?

For the gradle javafx builder I've used the tutorial at: https://bitbucket.org/javafxports/android/wiki/Building%20and%20deploying%20JavaFX%20Applications
I downloaded the runtime from here: https://bitbucket.org/javafxports/android/downloads
I'm using javafx in eclipse. I have tried to build the project with theses parameters:
gradle -PDEBUG -PDIR=C:/Users/spencer/Desktop -PNAME=HelloAndroidWorld -PPACKAGE=com.helloworld -PJFX_SDK=C:/Users/spencer/Downloads/dalvik-sdk-latest/dalvik-sdk/android-tools -PJFX_APP=C:/Users/spencer/Documents/Eclipse/Work" "Space/Interactive" "JavaFX/src -PJFX_MAIN=application.Main.java
Here is the message I got afterwards:
C:\Users\spencer>gradle -PDEBUG -PDIR=C:/Users/spencer/Desktop -PNAME=HelloAndro
idWorld -PPACKAGE=com.helloworld -PJFX_SDK=C:/Users/spencer/Downloads/dalvik-sdk
-latest/dalvik-sdk/android-tools -PJFX_APP=C:/Users/spencer/Documents/Eclipse/Wo
rk" "Space/Interactive" "JavaFX/src -PJFX_MAIN=application.Main.java
:help
Welcome to Gradle 1.12.
To run a build, run gradle <task> ...
To see a list of available tasks, run gradle tasks
To see a list of command-line options, run gradle --help
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 9.871 secs
I cannot find the file on my desktop! When i try adding "createProject" to the end i give me errors.
How do i build a android project?
I am not sure what id did wrong this is my first time trying this please help. All the help so far has been great!
Thanks

you have to give task to a gradle for creating a project give createProject task at the end of all parameters but before that you have to run gradle from your dalvik sdk into the android-tools folder
because it contain the build.gradle file in which createProject task is defined for example
into the command line:
c:\User\dalvik\dalvik-sdk\android-tools> gradle -PDEBUG -PDIR=C:/Users/spencer/Desktop -PNAME=HelloAndroidWorld -PPACKAGE=com.helloworld -PJFX_SDK=C:/Users/spencer/Downloads/dalvik-sdk-latest/dalvik-sdk/android-tools -PJFX_APP=C:/Users/spencer/Documents/Eclipse/Work" "Space/Interactive" "JavaFX/src -PJFX_MAIN=application.Main.java createProject

You haven't run any task. Run gradle tasks to see the list of available tasks. Then pick up a task from the list and run the command once again with task specified. There's also a detailed info:
To run a build, run gradle <task> ...
To see a list of available tasks, run gradle tasks
To see a list of command-line options, run gradle --help

Android Studio and Gradle build error

I've been using the new preview of android studio and really like it. But recently my project won't build. I get the following error:
Gradle:
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':TestProj:compileDebug'.
> Compilation failed; see the compiler error output for details.
* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
Could not execute build using Gradle distribution 'http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.6-bin.zip'.
Question is how do I enable the stack trace so I can get to the root of the error. As it is I really have no idea what's causing this.

If you are using the Gradle Wrapper (the recommended option in Android Studio), you enable stacktrace by running gradlew compileDebug --stacktrace from the command line in the root folder of your project (where the gradlew file is).
If you are not using the gradle wrapper, you use gradle compileDebug --stacktrace instead (presumably).
You don't really need to run with --stacktrace though, running gradlew compileDebug by itself, from the command line, should tell you where the error is.
I based this information on this comment:
Android Studio new project can not run, throwing error

Similar to #joe_deniable 's answer the thing I found with my own projects was that gradle would output that kind of error when there was a misconfiguration of my system.
I discovered that by running gradlew installDebug or similar command from the terminal I got better output as to what the real problem was.
e.g. initially it turns out my JAVA_HOME was not setup correctly. Then I discovered it encountered errors because I didn't have a package space setup correctly. Etc.

The only solution I've found is to first create the project in Android Studio, then close the project, then import the project. I searched all over and could not find the root cause and all other solutions people posted didn't work.

OK seems like a caching issue of some sort. There was indeed an error in code with the R.id.some_id not being found but the editor was not picking it up displaying that there were no errors.

I installed Android Studio on an old WinXP with only for me option. After install I did the new project wizard and when opening the new project a got some Gradle error with some failed path to my instalation dir. c:/Document"#¤!"#¤ and settins/...
The I uninstalled and did a new install with option for all users (C:/Programs/..) then I opend the previous created project with no errors.
So it might be a path problem. (Just spent 10 sec debugging, so I might be wrong but it solved my gradle error)

I found this post helpful:
"It can happen when res folder contains unexpected folder names. In my case after merge mistakes I had a folder src/main/res/res. And it caused problems."
from: "https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/adt-dev/0pEUKhEBMIA/ZxO5FNRjF8QJ"

I used a local distribution of gradle downloaded from gradle website and used it in android studio.
It fixed the gradle build error.

Edit the gradle wrapper settings in gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties and change gradle-1.6-bin.zip to gradle-2.4-bin.zip.
./gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties :
#Wed Apr 10 15:27:10 PDT 2013
distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=http\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.8-bin.zip
It should compile without any error now.
Note: update version numbers with the most recent ones