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How to solve (Could not initialize class org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ReflectionCache) issue in react native

$ npx react-native run-android
info Running jetifier to migrate libraries to AndroidX. You can disable it using "--no-jetifier" flag.
Jetifier found 864 file(s) to forward-jetify. Using 4 workers...
info Starting JS server...
info Launching emulator...
error Failed to launch the emulator. Reason: Could not start an emulator within 30 seconds.
warn Please launch an emulator manually or connect a device. Otherwise, the app may fail to launch.
info Installing the app...
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
What went wrong:
Could not initialize class org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper
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
BUILD FAILED in 1m 23s
error Failed to install the app. Make sure you have the Android development environment set up: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started.html#android-development-environment. Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details.
Error: Command failed: gradlew.bat app:installDebug -PreactNativeDevServerPort=8081
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
What went wrong:
Could not initialize class org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper
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
BUILD FAILED in 1m 23s
at checkExecSyncError (child_process.js:629:11)
at execFileSync (child_process.js:647:13)
at runOnAllDevices (E:\work\react-native\AwesomeProject1\node_modules\#react-native-community\cli-platform-android\build\commands\runAndroid\runOnAllDevices.js:94:39)

I think I had the same issue. After installing RN (May 20th, 2020), I bumped into this error. I found this solution on https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/10248.
In short:
Go to /android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties file in your RN project
Find this line that starts with distributionUrl. Change the gradle version into gradle-6.3-all.zip.
In my project, it was:
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.0.1-all.zip
and I changed it into:
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.3-all.zip
That's it.

I had the same error on Mac OS and React Native v0.62.
Apply these instructions correctly: React native environment setup
Adding this variable solved my problem:
export JAVA_HOME="/Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/jre/jdk/Contents/Home"

In the React Native version 0.62.x even the initialized application is not ready for a development build.
I change the Gradle version to the latest and I could to have a clean build, so change this file:
// this file => /android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
from:
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.0.1-all.zip
to:
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.5-all.zip
Pay Attention: The latest version of the Gradle for my time is 6.5. when you are reading this answer please check this link to see the latest version number of the Gradle.
Update Jan 24, 2023
7.6

I fixed this by these steps:
install android studio 3.5 (or later)
install java 1.8
if you have java JDE 14.x.x you have to remove its folder from library/java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-14.x.x.jdk (on mac os)
install an older version of JDE (I installed 11.0.6)
npm run android!

Just follow these 2 steps only and take your coffee.
Navigate to 'android' > gradle > wrapper > gradle-wrapper.properties
Change 'distributionUrl' from old to >
distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.3-all.zip

This Error occurs when the gradle version you used is not compatible on your environment, so you just need to update your gradle version to latest Gradle Versions, just go to: /android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties to your project file.

Auguest 2021
I was using JDK 16.0.1 and faced this issue. So, for JDK 16.0.1 you need 7.0 version of gradle.
I fixed it by going to /android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties and changing
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.2-all.zip
to
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.0-all.zip

If you are a macOS user then you should install
brew cask install adoptopenjdk/openjdk/adoptopenjdk8
brew cask install android-platform-tools
update your .bash_profile
nano ~/.bash_profile
export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8)
This would resolve your problem. If you are working on a legacy codebase then changing the distribution URL would lead to other problems. It usually happens because of mismatching java versions.

It's probably because you use Gradle as the build system and JDK14
and the Gradle version is old. Reference:
If you use Gradle Wrapper then refer to
$PROJECT_ROOT/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
Property distributionUrl should be:
distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.3-bin.zip
If it's an older version then change it, run ./gradlew clean build
and try again.

It is because your Gradle version is not supported by the Java JDK. If you use the JDK version 15.0.2 then you need to Gradle version change 6.6.1 or 6.7
To Change the Gradle Version in Android Studio.
android[project_name]/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
Open this file and set this
distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.6.1-all.zip
then this problem will be solved.
To check the java JDK version.
open cmd.
run echo %JAVA_HOME%
Then you can also search on google to check the supported version of Gradle to the JDK.

updating JAVA_HOME works for me in mac OS
export JAVA_HOME="/Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/jre/jdk/Contents/Home"

This issue is caused by incorrect version of graddle. so to fix this follow these steps
Make sure you have Android studio installed and SDK is setuped from Android studio menu Tool-> SDK Manager you can setup SDK, install latest SDK if you are using latest version of React Native .
From Android Studio menu Tools > AVD Manager Setup one device and download the image. and test it to see that emulator is running OK.
Make Sure JDK is installed for latest react native install latest JDK : https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase-downloads.html
Next from Android Studio menu File > New > new project create one dummy project aka Hello world and build make sure all android studio issues resolved and your Android studio hello world app is running on emulator.
Now time to fix your react native app. Stop your Android studio hello world app and keep the emulator running.
Locate your Android studio hello world app on your system and go to gradle\wrapper folder and copy the gradle-wrapper.properties file
example in windows case my hello world app is located in my documents:
C:\Users\Superman\Documents\android\hello world\gradle\wrapper
Next go to your react native app folder like : myReactApp\android\gradle\wrapper and paste the gradle-wrapper.properties file you copied from your Android studio hello world app.
finally in your terminal execute : npx react-native run-android

I have the same issue with new project and windows. I try all these way but it doesn'. Ridiculously, I move java/jdk folder from C:\Program Files to another dir in D:\ and it works like a charm.
May be it's useful.

December 2021
If you're using the latest version of Java Development Kit, you'll need to change the Gradle version of your project so it can recognize the JDK. You can do that by going to {project root folder}\android\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.properties and changing the distributionUrl value to upgrade the Gradle version. You can check out here the lastest releases of Gradle.

If you're looking for a solution for a Java/Kotlin Core Android project and not a React Project because i was also facing this problem in my core android project so here you go...
None of the above solutions worked for me. So basically the idea is to Change the version of gradle. How to do that you ask? Follow these steps:
File>Project Structure
Select SDK Location
You will find something written as "JDK was moved to Gradle Settings". Click on Gradle Settings.
Use Gradle Version 11.0
Sync the project again.
And there you go! A successfully built project! :)

Can't get Terminal Emulator for Android to build in Android Studio

I'm trying to build Terminal Emulator for Android. I'm running Android Studio 1.4 in Kubuntu 15.04. I also tried building it in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with the same results. The project requires the latest Android NDK, SDK 22, and SDK 11 which I've downloaded and configured in Android Studio. My system gradle version is 2.8, and Android Studio has downloaded some other versions internally. I'm using jdk1.8.0_65, which is set to JAVA_HOME and configured in Android Studio. I've built several other projects with my configured Android Studio and only seem to have a problem with this project. I need to use this project as a base for an app I'm developing.
I end up with same error, posted below, no matter what route I take to fix it in Android Studio. This is generally what I've done to try and get the project to work. I open up the project unmodified in Android Studio. I click Build >> Rebuild Project. I get an error telling me ndk implementation is deprecated. I add a file gradle.properties to the root directory of the project with the line android.useDeprecatedNdk=true and rebuild. It gives me an error: Task 'generateDebugTestSources' not found in project. I execute Sync Project With Gradle Files to resolve it. Then I end up with the following error and can't get past it.
Gradle 'Android-Terminal-Emulator-master' project refresh failed
Error:exception during working with external system:
or
Gradle sync failed: exception during working with external system:
Consult IDE log for more details (Help | Show Log)
idea.log
Things I've done to try and get the project to build:
Modify all of the project's build.gradle files to use the experimental plugin
Use different versions of Android Studio
Switch from openjdk to Oracle's jdk
Upgrade gradle to the latest version
Set gradle to default wrapper (default) and also set gradle to different versions
invalidate cache, remove ~/.gradle, and rebuild project
Make sure PATH includes the gradle and jdk bin directories and is in ~/.bashrc, ~/.profile, and ~/.zshrc
remove proguard from libtermexec library
reboot computer
I should note that the project builds without issue on the command line. I'd really like to get the project to build in Android Studio for development.

Install Arch and run Android Studio there.
I decided to try building Terminal Emulator on my Arch server, so I installed a xfce (Desktop Environment) and Android-Studio through pacman. I followed the same general path to get things setup, and the app built without issue.
The idea log Android Studio generated for the failed build on Windows and Ubuntu didn't point to any clear problem, even with --stacktrace enabled with gradle. I'm not going to waste my time figuring out why gradle doesn't want to build apps in Ubuntu or Windows.

Android Studio Path (ANDROID-HOME) not able to set?

I am facing the below problem while importing the downloaded project into Andoroid Stuio.
Please help me.
**
Could not execute build using Gradle distribution 'http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.7-bin.zip'.
Build file '/Users/Rajesh.K/Desktop/Test/Project/build.gradle' line: 9
A problem occurred evaluating project ':Project'.
A problem occurred evaluating project ':Project'.
SDK location not found. Define location with sdk.dir in the local.properties file or with an ANDROID_HOME environment variable.
Consult IDE log for more details (Help | Show Log)
**
Please help me to come out of this isssue. I am facing this issue in the Android Studio Mac version.

Are you trying to imort studio project into Android studio or eclipse project into Android studio.?
Try to set up your ANDROID_HOME as studio asking you. ( export ANDROID_HOME="PATh to your SDK folder" ) and run studio form this console.
Or you can try to configure in within Android Studio (File->Project Structure->Android SDK) And then you should set the proper SDK path.

I faced something similar but the difference was I had already set the variable into Android Studio and even with that, it was not recognized.
What I did was a simple File -> Invalidade Cache and Restart -> Invalidade and Restart.
I did not go deeper to check if it is a known issue on Android Studio.

Gradle version 1.6 is required. Current version is 1.8-20130730220035+0000

Just updated Android-Studio to version 0.2.7 an now I get the error message from the title:
In the log window there is link to the grade setup:
No matter which option I use the error message stays the same.
I deleted my ~/.gradle directory and projects **/.gradle directories.
It seems that nothing helps.
Nitpick: compile on the command-line using \opt\gradle\1.6\bin\gradle.bat build works fine.

Go to Preferences > Project Settings > Gradle and choose "Use gradle wrapper" instead of the bundled option
Open your gradle-wrapper.properties and change the distributionUrl to use 1.7 if it is not already (mine was 1.6), i.e. distributionUrl=http\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.7-bin.zip

I managed to fix my project through some combination of invalidating Android Studio cache, deleting .idea and .gradle directories and .iml files, restarting Studio, and reimporting the project:
on Mac OSX using Homebrew, brew install gradle then pick local gradle distribution and point to /usr/local/Cellar/gradle/1.7/libexec for gradle home:

You do not want to manage gradle at a system level, it is better handled per project. Android Studio projects already setup gradle wrapper handling when creating new projects but if you have an older one you can add the same file that Android Studio does. Think of this as an gradle bootstrap file that will download the correct gradle version per project. You can also read up on Gradle Wrapper and generate a shell script called gradlew that will provide gradle-free bootstrapping.
In gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties in your project directory make sure you have:
#
#Tue Oct 08 13:40:54 CEST 2013
distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=http\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.7-bin.zip
Then when you go into Gradle you can set it to use the gradle wrapper. This is the default when creating new projects in Android Studio.
There are at least three approaches to migration or adding Gradle properly and using the new project structure Google and Android Studio has introduced.
Create a new project and copy over the code
Export from Eclipse to Gradle (deprecated)
Import code into Android Studio (recommended)
Try to manually get everything in order by creating the correct gradle files and reorganizing the project.
For now I'm copying the files over to a new project until the tools get a bit better.

We have two computers, one of which gave that same message after upgrading to Android Studio 0.2.7. We noticed that the computer which could still build had Gradle installed independently of Android Studio.
Installing Gradle 1.6 downloaded from the Gradle web site fixed this issue on the computer that wouldn't build.

My fix was basically what Abe did but I wanted to give a bit more explanation:
Download gradle 1.6 from the gradle website
Extract somewhere on your pc/mac
Open up android studio, go to Preferences -> Gradle (left panel) -> and chooose Local gradle distribution.
Point Gradle home to the location where you extracted gradle.
This fixed the issue for me. Using the gradle wrapper and the bundled gradle distribution both failed

In my case, i updated gradle to the latest version (1.8) and then changed the gradle.build files (for my project and for the libraries i was using) like these:
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.6.1+'
}
The Synchronize files and Refresh/Invalidate cache. This seems to solve the problem. I think that Gradle in order to determine the minimum required version just reads the above value.

Here's what I did to get my project working:
Installed Gradle 1.7 on my OS (OS X users can use brew for this)
Added this to my local.properties file: sdk.dir=/Applications/Android\ Studio.app/sdk
Created gradle wrappers with gradle wrapper command.
Chose "Use gradle wrapper (recommended)" option in Android Studio.

Error in android studio while creating new project [duplicate]

When I try to build a project on Android Studio, I get this error:
Compilation completed with 1 error and 0 warnings in 9 sec
1 error
0 warnings
org.gradle.tooling.GradleConnectionException: Could not install Gradle distribution from 'http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.6-bin.zip'.: Could not install Gradle distribution from 'http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.6-bin.zip'.
What can I do to fix it?
UPDATE:
When I look at the Error Log, I saw this:
org.jetbrains.plugins.gradle.settings.GradleSettings cannot be cast to org.jetbrains.plugins.gradle.settings.GradleSettings:
org.jetbrains.plugins.gradle.settings.GradleSettings cannot be cast to org.jetbrains.plugins.gradle.settings.GradleSettings

Please read the log from:
On Microsoft Windows:
[Windwos Drive]\Documents and Settings\[your username]\.AndroidStudioPreview\system\log
On Mac and Linux: ~/.AndroidStudioPreview/system/log/
And you will find the tmp download path of gradle-1.6-bin.zip. For example, mine is:
2013-05-17 09:42:16,934 [ 283002] INFO - ution.rmi.RemoteProcessSupport - Unzipping C:\Documents and Settings\Kiki.J.Hu\.gradle\wrapper\dists\gradle-1.6-bin\72srdo3a5eb3bic159kar72vok\gradle-1.6-bin.zip to C:\Documents and Settings\Kiki.J.Hu\.gradle\wrapper\dists\gradle-1.6-bin\72srdo3a5eb3bic159kar72vok
...
Caused by: com.intellij.openapi.externalSystem.model.ExternalSystemException: Could not install Gradle distribution from 'http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.6-bin.zip'.
java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file
So I know the cause: I downloaded an incomplete ZIP package.
Then I downloaded the full ZIP package from http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.6-bin.zip manually and copied this ZIP package to:
Windows: C:\Documents and
Settings\Kiki.J.Hu\.gradle\wrapper\dists\gradle-1.6-bin\72srdo3a5eb3bic159kar72vok\
Mac OS X: ~/.gradle/wrapper/dists/gradle-1.10-all/6vpvhqu0efs1fqmqr2decq1v12/
Everything is OK now.

For OS X:
Install Homebrew as a package manager. Then on Terminal, run:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"
Install Gradle:
brew install gradle
It is the easiest way to get Gradle.

Before you click to new project, go to configure and set your proxy. I recommend set host name and port number, since I had problems with auto-detect proxy settings. Check your connection in settings.

I also had issues downloading Gradle through Android Studio.
This was my workaround:
Download Gradle directly from http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.6-bin.zip
Copy the contents of gradle-1.6 to \Android\android-studio\plugins\gradle
Copy gradle.jar to \Android\android-studio\lib\
Restart Android Studio
Hope this helps!

Edit the gradle wrapper settings in gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties and change gradle-1.6-bin.zip to gradle-1.8-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.

In my case this was because the system had low memory. When I closed some applications, the error disappeared.

For me it turned out to be my firewall, which is VIPRE, was blocking the Gradle.org site and quietly causing a bad gradle-1.7-bin.zip to be created under .gradle\wrapper\dists\.
I had to open VIPRE and add gradle.org to "Bad Web Site Exceptions" (menu File -> Settings -> Firewall).
Then I downloaded http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.7-bin.zip using a browser and overwrote the bad version. I restarted Android Studio, and all is good.

FYI, on my Mac, it was downloading Gradle into the ~/.gradle directory. You can see how it's progressing by looking there:
du ~/.gradle

I noticed that my MyProject/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties file was completely empty, so I deleted it and Android Studio proceeded to download whatever it needed.
After that it worked.

I tried Kiki Hu's solution, and it worked. After that, there will be more downloads from the Maven repository which includes Dalvik Debug Monitor Server (DDMS), Guava, etc., which again is not required if you are exporting from Eclipse into Android Studio.

If you're like me, you tried to start a version prior to 0.2.0. Following Google's notes
in Getting Started with Android Studio, you'll need to remove and re-install Android Studio.
"Note: There is not a patch update available from 0.1.9 to 0.2. To update from Android Studio 0.1.x to 0.2.x, you must install a new Android Studio bundle from this page. The reason for that is that we have made changes to the bundled SDK such that it includes a pre-configured local Maven repository which can serve up the v4 support library and which is required for creating new projects."
Also be aware that if you have your Android SDK files stored in C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-studio\sdk you should move them before the uninstall, or you'll need to download the SDK files again.
After the un-install and re-install, it is now working on my Windows 7 64-bit system.

Remove all files from C:\Documents and Settings\[User]\.gradle\wrapper\dists\, rebuild the project and rebuild your project on Android Studio. It works for me :)

I have noticed one thing: When my Android Studio is build 130.737825, it automatic downloads Gradle 1.6 to C:\Users\yourname\.gradle/wrapper/dists/gradle-1.6-bin/72srdo3a5eb3bic159kar72vok/.
However, when I update my Android Studio to build 132.821530, it automatically downloads Gradle 1.7 to C:\Users\Administrator\.gradle\wrapper\dists\gradle-1.7-bin\2g3i7gan25uopmtc0lnjb1l9ff.
I don't know if it matters.

I had this error under fresh installation of IntelliJ (14.0), the problem was that I had not specified JDK. Fix: press ctrl + A + S (project structure), and check if SDK is correct.
my error looked like this:
Error:Android Gradle Build Target: org.gradle.tooling.GradleConnectionException: Could not execute build using Gradle installation ...