Does not compile for android using react-native 0.72.4

[abhisekmallik]

I have followed all the steps mentioned in the installation:

then ran yarn android

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong: A problem occurred configuring project ':nozbe_watermelondb'.

  Failed to notify project evaluation listener. Could not create task ':nozbe_watermelondb:compileDebugAndroidTestKotlin'. Cannot use @TaskAction annotation on method AbstractKotlinCompile.execute() because interface org.gradle.api.tasks.incremental.IncrementalTaskInputs is not a valid parameter to an action method. KotlinJvmAndroidCompilation with name 'debugAndroidTest' not found.

[mattjbrill]

Hi @abhisekmallik!

I'm not a collaborator on this project. I just happened to be looking through issues for something unrelated to yours.

Lot of react native packages are having issues due to the architecture changes, including the upcoming move to AGP 8.0. As of AGP 7.3, which is shipped with react native 0.71+, android projects should start including a namespace. As of AGP 8.0, it is required. Wouldn't you know it, there's no namespace in watermelondb.

I don't know if this will resolve your issue, but try adding

def agpVersion = com.android.Version.ANDROID_GRADLE_PLUGIN_VERSION
if (agpVersion.tokenize('.')[0].toInteger() >= 7) {
  namespace "com.nozbe.watermelondb"
}

to this line https://github.com/Nozbe/WatermelonDB/blob/0974c47a559fa4f102f0026afb62d0ee368d01ca/native/android/build.gradle#L26

Also you may see a warning about the package name being declared in the android manifest (https://github.com/Nozbe/WatermelonDB/blob/0974c47a559fa4f102f0026afb62d0ee368d01ca/native/android/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml#L2), but you should be able to ignore it for now.

Props to https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/issues/671#issuecomment-1598892444 for the potential fix!

[daamsie]

I was able to get past this error by specifying the kotlin version in build.gradle

buildscript {
    ext {
        ...
        kotlinVersion = "1.8.22"
    }
    ...
}

[xkelxmc]

same problem with kotlinVersion 1.8.10, 1.8.22, 1.9.0

[edwinwong90]

@xkelxmc you need to check the react native gradle's version to specific dedicated kotlinVersion. Please refer here. To check your gradle version, go to android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties in the file you will see this line

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.0.1-all.zip

Which mean the gradle version is 8.0.1. and use the correct kotlin version based on the link I mentioned. Hope this help!

[mimeyn]

I was able to get past this error by specifying the kotlin version in build.gradle

buildscript {
    ext {
        ...
        kotlinVersion = "1.8.22"
    }
    ...
}

This solution worked for me. Thanks a lot daamsie.

As a side note (Honestly at first I was a little confused🤦‍♂️):

Add this lines to android/build.gradle✅, not adding to android/app/build.gradle❌