The use of "react-native-picker/picker" block the APK file generation of my expo project

[mohamedbelhassen]

When trying to generate the app APK file of my expo project, I get the following error during the build process:

WARNING:Software Components will not be created automatically for Maven publishing from Android Gradle Plugin 8.0. To opt-in to the future behavior, set the Gradle property android.disableAutomaticComponentCreation=true in the `gradle.properties` file or use the new publishing DSL.

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FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

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* Where:

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Build file '/home/expo/workingdir/build/admin/node_modules/react-native-picker/android/build.gradle' line: 25

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* What went wrong:

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A problem occurred evaluating project ':react-native-picker'.

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> Could not find method compile() for arguments [directory 'libs'] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler.

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* Try:

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> Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace.

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> Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

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> Run with

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--scan to get full insights.

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* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

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BUILD FAILED in 2m 19s

Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 8.0.

You can use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings and determine if they come from your own scripts or plugins.

See https://docs.gradle.org/7.5.1/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings

5 actionable tasks: 5 executed

Error: Gradle build failed with unknown error. See logs for the "Run gradlew" phase for more information.

[Zllocke1s]

I am also running into this issue. I have seen in many places to try replacing "compile" to "implementation", but that doesn't work with the eas managed workflow.

[mohamedbelhassen]

In my case, the problem is resolved after uninstalling another package called "react-native-picker".