Fresh React Native CLI init project does not work on Android with a Mac M1 Max

[xlangit]

Description

I have a Mac m1 Max, trying to get a fresh project running,it is runing IOS without problem, but no luck on android, the error message I'm getting is the following when trying to build and run using react-native run-android --verbose The following errors are reported:

I did install java with sdkman:

| 8.0.322 | zulu | installed | 8.0.322-zulu

error Failed to install the app. Make sure you have the Android development environment set up: https://reactnative.dev/docs/environment-setup.

Error: Command failed: ./gradlew app:installDebug -PreactNativeDevServerPort=8081

Warning: Mapping new ns http://schemas.android.com/repository/android/common/02 to old ns http://schemas.android.com/repository/android/common/01

Warning: Mapping new ns http://schemas.android.com/repository/android/generic/02 to old ns http://schemas.android.com/repository/android/generic/01

Warning: Mapping new ns http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/addon2/02 to old ns http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/addon2/01

Warning: Mapping new ns http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/addon2/03 to old ns http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/addon2/01

Warning: Mapping new ns http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/repository2/02 to old ns http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/repository2/01

Warning: Mapping new ns http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/repository2/03 to old ns http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/repository2/01

Warning: Mapping new ns http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/sys-img2/03 to old ns http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/sys-img2/01

Warning: Mapping new ns http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/sys-img2/02 to old ns http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/sys-img2/01

Warning: unexpected element (uri:"", local:"base-extension"). Expected elements are <{}codename>,<{}layoutlib>,<{}api-level>

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:

Execution failed for task ':app:processDebugResources'.

> Could not resolve all files for configuration ':app:debugRuntimeClasspath'.

   > Failed to transform appcompat-1.3.0.aar (androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.3.0) to match attributes {artifactType=android-compiled-dependencies-resources, org.gradle.category=library, org.gradle.dependency.bundling=external, org.gradle.libraryelements=aar, org.gradle.status=release, org.gradle.usage=java-runtime}.

      > Execution failed for AarResourcesCompilerTransform: /Users/xlan/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/d7f19fb48ed68be2921ae87dc8e58f8e/transformed/appcompat-1.3.0.

         > AAPT2 aapt2-4.2.2-7147631-osx Daemon #1: Daemon startup failed

           This should not happen under normal circumstances, please file an issue if it does.

   > Failed to transform core-1.5.0.aar (androidx.core:core:1.5.0) to match attributes {artifactType=android-compiled-dependencies-resources, org.gradle.status=release}.

      > Execution failed for AarResourcesCompilerTransform: /Users/xlan/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/540dbfb90b248d7b59cd154497c15f99/transformed/core-1.5.0.

         > AAPT2 aapt2-4.2.2-7147631-osx Daemon #0: Daemon startup failed

           This should not happen under normal circumstances, please file an issue if it does.

   > Failed to transform core-1.5.0.aar (androidx.core:core:1.5.0) to match attributes {artifactType=android-compiled-dependencies-resources, org.gradle.category=library, org.gradle.dependency.bundling=external, org.gradle.libraryelements=aar, org.gradle.status=release, org.gradle.usage=java-runtime}.

      > Execution failed for AarResourcesCompilerTransform: /Users/xlan/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/540dbfb90b248d7b59cd154497c15f99/transformed/core-1.5.0.

         > AAPT2 aapt2-4.2.2-7147631-osx Daemon #0: Daemon startup failed

           This should not happen under normal circumstances, please file an issue if it does.

   > Failed to transform core-1.5.0.aar (androidx.core:core:1.5.0) to match attributes {artifactType=android-compiled-dependencies-resources, org.gradle.status=release}.

      > Execution failed for AarResourcesCompilerTransform: /Users/xlan/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/540dbfb90b248d7b59cd154497c15f99/transformed/core-1.5.0.

         > AAPT2 aapt2-4.2.2-7147631-osx Daemon #0: Daemon startup failed

           This should not happen under normal circumstances, please file an issue if it does.

   > Failed to transform core-1.5.0.aar (androidx.core:core:1.5.0) to match attributes {artifactType=android-compiled-dependencies-resources, org.gradle.status=release}.

      > Execution failed for AarResourcesCompilerTransform: /Users/xlan/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/540dbfb90b248d7b59cd154497c15f99/transformed/core-1.5.0.

         > AAPT2 aapt2-4.2.2-7147631-osx Daemon #0: Daemon startup failed

           This should not happen under normal circumstances, please file an issue if it does.

   > Failed to transform core-1.5.0.aar (androidx.core:core:1.5.0) to match attributes {artifactType=android-compiled-dependencies-resources, org.gradle.status=release}.

      > Execution failed for AarResourcesCompilerTransform: /Users/xlan/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/540dbfb90b248d7b59cd154497c15f99/transformed/core-1.5.0.

         > AAPT2 aapt2-4.2.2-7147631-osx Daemon #0: Daemon startup failed

           This should not happen under normal circumstances, please file an issue if it does.

   > Failed to transform core-1.5.0.aar (androidx.core:core:1.5.0) to match attributes {artifactType=android-compiled-dependencies-resources, org.gradle.status=release}.

      > Execution failed for AarResourcesCompilerTransform: /Users/xlan/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/540dbfb90b248d7b59cd154497c15f99/transformed/core-1.5.0.

         > AAPT2 aapt2-4.2.2-7147631-osx Daemon #0: Daemon startup failed

           This should not happen under normal circumstances, please file an issue if it does.

   > Failed to transform core-1.5.0.aar (androidx.core:core:1.5.0) to match attributes {artifactType=android-compiled-dependencies-resources, org.gradle.status=release}.

      > Execution failed for AarResourcesCompilerTransform: /Users/xlan/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/540dbfb90b248d7b59cd154497c15f99/transformed/core-1.5.0.

         > AAPT2 aapt2-4.2.2-7147631-osx Daemon #0: Daemon startup failed

           This should not happen under normal circumstances, please file an issue if it does.

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BUILD FAILED in 16m 10s

    at makeError (/Users/xlan/projects/baredemo/node_modules/execa/index.js:174:9)

    at /Users/xlan/projects/baredemo/node_modules/execa/index.js:278:16

    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)

    at async runOnAllDevices (/Users/xlan/projects/baredemo/node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-android/build/commands/runAndroid/runOnAllDevices.js:109:5)

    at async Command.handleAction (/Users/xlan/projects/baredemo/node_modules/@react-native-community/cli/build/index.js:192:9)

  --

Version

0.67.1

Output of npx react-native info

info Fetching system and libraries information... (node:10552) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'padLevels' of module exports inside circular dependency (Use node --trace-warnings ... to show where the warning was created) System: OS: macOS 12.2 CPU: (10) arm64 Apple M1 Max Memory: 32.65 GB / 64.00 GB Shell: 5.8 - /bin/zsh Binaries: Node: 17.4.0 - /opt/homebrew/bin/node Yarn: 1.22.17 - /opt/homebrew/bin/yarn npm: 8.3.1 - /opt/homebrew/bin/npm Watchman: 2022.01.24.00 - /opt/homebrew/bin/watchman Managers: CocoaPods: 1.11.2 - /opt/homebrew/bin/pod SDKs: iOS SDK: Platforms: DriverKit 21.2, iOS 15.2, macOS 12.1, tvOS 15.2, watchOS 8.3 Android SDK: API Levels: 30, 31, 32 Build Tools: 30.0.2, 32.0.0, 32.1.0 System Images: android-32 | Google APIs ARM 64 v8a Android NDK: Not Found IDEs: Android Studio: 2021.1 AI-211.7628.21.2111.8092744 Xcode: 13.2.1/13C100 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild Languages: Java: 1.8.0_322 - /Users/xlan/.sdkman/candidates/java/current/bin/javac npmPackages: @react-native-community/cli: Not Found react: 17.0.2 => 17.0.2 react-native: 0.67.1 => 0.67.1 react-native-macos: Not Found npmGlobalPackages: react-native: Not Found

Steps to reproduce

react-native init baredemo cd baredemo react-native run-android --verbose

Snack, code example, screenshot, or link to a repository

my android/build.grade

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

buildscript { ext { buildToolsVersion = "30.0.2" minSdkVersion = 29 compileSdkVersion = 30 targetSdkVersion = 30 ndkVersion = "21.4.7075529" } repositories { google() mavenCentral() jcenter() } dependencies { classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.2.2") // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong // in the individual module build.gradle files } }

allprojects { repositories { 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") } mavenCentral { // We don't want to fetch react-native from Maven Central as there are // older versions over there. content { excludeGroup "com.facebook.react" } } google() maven { url 'https://www.jitpack.io' } jcenter() } }

my android/app/build.grade

apply plugin: "com.android.application"

import com.android.build.OutputFile

/**

• The react.gradle file registers a task for each build variant (e.g. bundleDebugJsAndAssets
• and bundleReleaseJsAndAssets).
• These basically call react-native bundle with the correct arguments during the Android build
• cycle. By default, bundleDebugJsAndAssets is skipped, as in debug/dev mode we prefer to load the
• bundle directly from the development server. Below you can see all the possible configurations
• and their defaults. If you decide to add a configuration block, make sure to add it before the
• apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native/react.gradle" line.
• project.ext.react = [
• // the name of the generated asset file containing your JS bundle
• bundleAssetName: "index.android.bundle",
• // the entry file for bundle generation. If none specified and
• // "index.android.js" exists, it will be used. Otherwise "index.js" is
• // default. Can be overridden with ENTRY_FILE environment variable.
• entryFile: "index.android.js",
• // https://reactnative.dev/docs/performance#enable-the-ram-format
• bundleCommand: "ram-bundle",
• // whether to bundle JS and assets in debug mode
• bundleInDebug: false,
• // whether to bundle JS and assets in release mode
• bundleInRelease: true,
• // whether to bundle JS and assets in another build variant (if configured).
• // See http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-guide#TOC-Build-Variants
• // The configuration property can be in the following formats
• // 'bundleIn${productFlavor}${buildType}'
• // 'bundleIn${buildType}'
• // bundleInFreeDebug: true,
• // bundleInPaidRelease: true,
• // bundleInBeta: true,
• // whether to disable dev mode in custom build variants (by default only disabled in release)
• // for example: to disable dev mode in the staging build type (if configured)
• devDisabledInStaging: true,
• // The configuration property can be in the following formats
• // 'devDisabledIn${productFlavor}${buildType}'
• // 'devDisabledIn${buildType}'
• // the root of your project, i.e. where "package.json" lives
• root: "../../",
• // where to put the JS bundle asset in debug mode
• jsBundleDirDebug: "$buildDir/intermediates/assets/debug",
• // where to put the JS bundle asset in release mode
• jsBundleDirRelease: "$buildDir/intermediates/assets/release",
• // where to put drawable resources / React Native assets, e.g. the ones you use via
• // require('./image.png')), in debug mode
• resourcesDirDebug: "$buildDir/intermediates/res/merged/debug",
• // where to put drawable resources / React Native assets, e.g. the ones you use via
• // require('./image.png')), in release mode
• resourcesDirRelease: "$buildDir/intermediates/res/merged/release",
• // by default the gradle tasks are skipped if none of the JS files or assets change; this means
• // that we don't look at files in android/ or ios/ to determine whether the tasks are up to
• // date; if you have any other folders that you want to ignore for performance reasons (gradle
• // indexes the entire tree), add them here. Alternatively, if you have JS files in android/
• // for example, you might want to remove it from here.
• inputExcludes: ["android/", "ios/"],
• // override which node gets called and with what additional arguments
• nodeExecutableAndArgs: ["node"],
• // supply additional arguments to the packager
• extraPackagerArgs: []
• ] */

project.ext.react = [ enableHermes: false, // clean and rebuild if changing ]

apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native/react.gradle"

/**

• Set this to true to create two separate APKs instead of one:
• • An APK that only works on ARM devices
• • An APK that only works on x86 devices
• The advantage is the size of the APK is reduced by about 4MB.
• Upload all the APKs to the Play Store and people will download
• the correct one based on the CPU architecture of their device. */ def enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture = false

/**

• Run Proguard to shrink the Java bytecode in release builds. */ def enableProguardInReleaseBuilds = false

/**

• The preferred build flavor of JavaScriptCore.
• For example, to use the international variant, you can use:
• def jscFlavor = 'org.webkit:android-jsc-intl:+'
• The international variant includes ICU i18n library and necessary data
• allowing to use e.g. Date.toLocaleString and String.localeCompare that
• give correct results when using with locales other than en-US. Note that
• this variant is about 6MiB larger per architecture than default. */ def jscFlavor = 'org.webkit:android-jsc:+'

/**

• Whether to enable the Hermes VM.
• This should be set on project.ext.react and that value will be read here. If it is not set
• on project.ext.react, JavaScript will not be compiled to Hermes Bytecode
• and the benefits of using Hermes will therefore be sharply reduced. */ def enableHermes = project.ext.react.get("enableHermes", false);

/**

• Architectures to build native code for in debug. */ def nativeArchitectures = project.getProperties().get("reactNativeDebugArchitectures")

android { ndkVersion rootProject.ext.ndkVersion

compileSdkVersion rootProject.ext.compileSdkVersion

defaultConfig {
    applicationId "com.baredemo"
    minSdkVersion rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
    targetSdkVersion rootProject.ext.targetSdkVersion
    versionCode 1
    versionName "1.0"
}
splits {
    abi {
        reset()
        enable enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture
        universalApk false  // If true, also generate a universal APK
        include "armeabi-v7a", "x86", "arm64-v8a", "x86_64"
    }
}
signingConfigs {
    debug {
        storeFile file('debug.keystore')
        storePassword 'android'
        keyAlias 'androiddebugkey'
        keyPassword 'android'
    }
}
buildTypes {
    debug {
        signingConfig signingConfigs.debug
        if (nativeArchitectures) {
            ndk {
                abiFilters nativeArchitectures.split(',')
            }
        }
    }
    release {
        // Caution! In production, you need to generate your own keystore file.
        // see https://reactnative.dev/docs/signed-apk-android.
        signingConfig signingConfigs.debug
        minifyEnabled enableProguardInReleaseBuilds
        proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile("proguard-android.txt"), "proguard-rules.pro"
    }
}

compileOptions {
    sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
}

// applicationVariants are e.g. debug, release
applicationVariants.all { variant ->
    variant.outputs.each { output ->
        // For each separate APK per architecture, set a unique version code as described here:
        // https://developer.android.com/studio/build/configure-apk-splits.html
        // Example: versionCode 1 will generate 1001 for armeabi-v7a, 1002 for x86, etc.
        def versionCodes = ["armeabi-v7a": 1, "x86": 2, "arm64-v8a": 3, "x86_64": 4]
        def abi = output.getFilter(OutputFile.ABI)
        if (abi != null) {  // null for the universal-debug, universal-release variants
            output.versionCodeOverride =
                    defaultConfig.versionCode * 1000 + versionCodes.get(abi)
        }

    }
}

}

dependencies { implementation fileTree(dir: "libs", include: ["*.jar"]) //noinspection GradleDynamicVersion implementation "com.facebook.react:react-native:+" // From node_modules

implementation "androidx.swiperefreshlayout:swiperefreshlayout:1.0.0"

debugImplementation("com.facebook.flipper:flipper:${FLIPPER_VERSION}") {
    exclude group:'com.facebook.fbjni'
}

debugImplementation("com.facebook.flipper:flipper-network-plugin:${FLIPPER_VERSION}") {
    exclude group:'com.facebook.flipper'
    exclude group:'com.squareup.okhttp3', module:'okhttp'
}

debugImplementation("com.facebook.flipper:flipper-fresco-plugin:${FLIPPER_VERSION}") {
    exclude group:'com.facebook.flipper'
}

if (enableHermes) {
    def hermesPath = "../../node_modules/hermes-engine/android/";
    debugImplementation files(hermesPath + "hermes-debug.aar")
    releaseImplementation files(hermesPath + "hermes-release.aar")
} else {
    implementation jscFlavor
}

}

// Run this once to be able to run the application with BUCK // puts all compile dependencies into folder libs for BUCK to use task copyDownloadableDepsToLibs(type: Copy) { from configurations.implementation into 'libs' }

apply from: file("../../node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-android/native_modules.gradle"); applyNativeModulesAppBuildGradle(project)

[xlangit]

Any info, or guide will help on this issue. Thanks

[cortinico]

I don't have a M1 Mac so I can't really try this. Any guide/support from the community would be more than appreciated at this stage 🙏

[kepocnhh]

My environment - Monterey 12.2.1 (21D62) aarch64 I have the same issue when using the com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.0.2 plugin:

AAPT2 aapt2-7.0.2-7396180-osx Daemon #0: Daemon startup failed

But when using version 7.1.0, there is no such problem.

PS: I am not building React Native. Only java 11.0.14 + gradle 7.3.

[xlangit]

Ok I did change on my baredemo/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties this line distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.4-all.zip

to use the latest gradle version

and in this file baredemo/android/build.gradle

I did change this line classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.1.0")

to use the plugin as you suggested.

One thing I don't quite get if the plugin version is the same as the gradle version, and what version should we use.

But after cleaning my gradle folder -rf ~/.gradle
I did try again the build using react-native run-android --verbose and It works. Thanks a lot, I know need to try these with another project or and old proyect and see what is going on.

[LorenzoInvernizzi]

i encountered the same issue on a new mac pro M1. Above comment fixed the issue for me. The only thing is that the first time i run it i got the error:

Unable to install /Users/XX/Documents/XX/android/app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk com.android.ddmlib.InstallException: Unknown failure: Exception occurred while executing 'install': java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android.content.pm.PackageManagerInternal.freeStorage(java.lang.String, long, int)' on a null object reference

I just rerun it and it worked. I thing it is because the simulator didn't finish to boot. Now i will do the same mods to a big project, lets hope it works

[devandres-tech]

Same as everyone, encountered the same problem on a brand new Mac M1 pro chip, I only had to add this line: classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.1.0") So basically I just changed the gradle version to 7.1.0, no need to change the distributionUrl. Well, it worked for me in my case.

[jrnkng]

I did both things described above and it finally solved the issue. Thanks!

[cortinico]

Closing as there is nothing much actionable here. We're about to release RN 0.69 which will contain logic to default your NDK version to 24, which has full support for M1. Once you also use the Zulu JDK 11, you should be all good building for M1 on Android

[gaweki]

i just curious this happen for my m1 2020 ram 16. it had been solved by upgrade these classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.2.1")

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.5.1-all.zip

the error caused by this version

classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.2.2")

allprojects { repositories { exclusiveContent { // We get React Native's Android binaries exclusively through npm, // from a local Maven repo inside node_modules/react-native/. // (The use of exclusiveContent prevents looking elsewhere like Maven Central // and potentially getting a wrong version.) filter { includeGroup "com.facebook.react" } forRepository { maven { // NOTE: if you are in a monorepo, you may have "$rootDir/../../../node_modules/react-native/android" url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android" } } } .... } }

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.9-all.zip

But my colleagues m1 not occur this error

[roshansrashtasoft]

Any Solution I am stuck?