Appcenter: support building React native 0.64

[vonovak]

Hello, I'd like to ask for AppCenter to support react native 0.64

Currently, there are 2 issues in AC with regard to this

• Usage of Android Gradle Plugin 4.1.0+ is not supported at the moment.

React Native uses newer plugin now. It works with the older version too, but something that would be nice to have

• NDK version used by RN is not available in AC

> Task :app:stripReleaseDebugSymbols FAILED
WARNING: Support for ANDROID_NDK_HOME is deprecated and will be removed in the future. Use android.ndkVersion in build.gradle instead.
Support for ANDROID_NDK_HOME is deprecated and will be removed in the future. Use android.ndkVersion in build.gradle instead.
w: Detected multiple Kotlin daemon sessions at build/kotlin/sessions

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:stripReleaseDebugSymbols'.
> No version of NDK matched the requested version 20.1.5948944. Versions available locally: 18.1.5063045, 21.4.7075529, 21.4.7075529, 21.4.7075529, 22.0.7026061

Again, it appears that newer NDK can be used as well but would be nice to use the one specified by RN - not sure what implications this can have...

Thank you!

[syedquadri1982]

Is there a workaround for this with react native 0.64?

[marcshilling]

@syed I've been using NDK version 21.4.7075529 and Gradle 4.0.2 and everything seems to be working OK for now. I'd still feel a lot better using the RN 0.64 defaults, so hopefully this gets fixed soon.

[Gitarcitano]

I've just have set the ndkVersion to 22.0.7026061 and that is working fine with RN 0.64 (Android and iOS)

[maxckelly]

How have you guys managed to workaround this? I'm getting the below errors for Android. Would appreciate any help

Android:

Welcome to Gradle 6.7!

Here are the highlights of this release:
 - File system watching is ready for production use
 - Declare the version of Java your build requires
 - Java 15 support

For more details see https://docs.gradle.org/6.7/release-notes.html

Starting a Gradle Daemon (subsequent builds will be faster)
Gradle 6.7

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Settings file '/Users/runner/work/1/s/android/settings.gradle' line: 3

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating settings 'aLifeLived'.
> Could not read script '/Users/runner/work/1/s/node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-android/native_modules.gradle' as it 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

BUILD FAILED in 26s
Error: /Users/runner/work/1/s/android/gradlew failed with return code: 1
    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/Users/runner/work/_tasks/Gradle_8d8eebd8-2b94-4c97-85af-839254cc6da4/1.128.0/node_modules/vsts-task-lib/toolrunner.js:569:30)
    at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
    at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:920:16)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (internal/child_process.js:351:11)
    at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:188:7)
    at Pipe._handle.close [as _onclose] (net.js:509:12)
##[error]Error: /Users/runner/work/1/s/android/gradlew failed with return code: 1

[douglasjunior]

Any news about that?

React Native 0.64.x now uses Android Gradle Plugin 4.1.0.

So now we are unable to use React Native with AppCenter.

[douglasjunior]

@Gitarcitano, please, what version of Android Gradle Plugin are you using with the NDK 22.0.7026061?

[douglasjunior]

Sorry guys, my problem was actually with the jetifier 2.0.0: https://github.com/mikehardy/jetifier/issues/67

Everything working with React Native 0.64.1, Gradle Plugin 4.1.0 and NDK 20.1.5948944.

[marcshilling]

@douglasjunior so you're saying AppCenter is able to build a Gradle Plugin 4.1.0 app even though the banner at the top says "Android Gradle Plugin 4.1.x is not supported"?

[douglasjunior]

@marcshilling Unbelievable, but yes.

I setup two apps, a new app created in RN 0.64.1, and another app created 2 years ago and updated to RN 0.64.1. Both with default Gradle Plugin 4.1.0.

[maxckelly]

Has anyone else been able to do this? I still get build failed.

[yvbeek]

@MatkovIvan Do you have an update for us on when this going to be fixed?

Third party libraries are now requiring Gradle 4.1+. Which means that we have to use older versions for now and can't get the latest bug fixes.

[ivankostic85]

@maxckelly @yvbeek there is a workaround in order to use Gradle 4.1.x

Public documentation has recently been updated
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/build/android/code-signing#setting-up-code-signing

Another alternative is the latest 4.2.0 version

[maxckelly]

@ivankostic85 - Seems to still be failing even with the above suggestions. This seems to be happening on the distribution part. When I disable distribution of the Android app to the store it passes.

##[error]Error: Failed find: ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat '/Users/runner/work/1/s/node_modules/@babel/register/node_modules/make-dir/node_modules/.bin/semver'

[victorkvarghese]

hi any workarounds to this issue
i tried using jetifier version 1.6.6, but it triggered some other issues