React-native-navigation: Android build types that aren't "debug" or "release"

[ahwatts]

Issue Description

I'm working with a "legacy" app using RNN, and it has in its gradle config a "releaseStaging" and a "releaseProduction" build type, the differences being the signing config and a handful of environment variables. I'm able to build a debug build just fine, and RNN works like it ought on the emulators / simulators. I am, however, trying to build the "releaseStaging" type, and it's not working. I suspect there's some Gradle configuration that I don't know how to work with breaking the build. Specifically, the error I'm getting is that, for each dependency, I get the following message (I just picked the last one, react-native-localize, as an example):

   > Could not resolve project :react-native-localize.
     Required by:
         project :app
      > Unable to find a matching configuration of project :react-native-localize:
          - Configuration 'debugApiElements':
              - Required RNN.reactNativeVersion 'reactNative57_5' but no value provided.
              - Required com.android.build.api.attributes.BuildTypeAttr 'releaseStaging' and found incompatible value 'debug'.
              - Found com.android.build.api.attributes.VariantAttr 'debug' but wasn't required.
              - Required com.android.build.gradle.internal.dependency.AndroidTypeAttr 'Aar' and found compatible value 'Aar'.
              - Required org.gradle.usage 'java-runtime' and found incompatible value 'java-api'.
          - Configuration 'debugRuntimeElements':
              - Required RNN.reactNativeVersion 'reactNative57_5' but no value provided.
              - Required com.android.build.api.attributes.BuildTypeAttr 'releaseStaging' and found incompatible value 'debug'.
              - Found com.android.build.api.attributes.VariantAttr 'debug' but wasn't required.
              - Required com.android.build.gradle.internal.dependency.AndroidTypeAttr 'Aar' and found compatible value 'Aar'.
              - Required org.gradle.usage 'java-runtime' and found compatible value 'java-runtime'.
          - Configuration 'releaseApiElements':
              - Required RNN.reactNativeVersion 'reactNative57_5' but no value provided.
              - Required com.android.build.api.attributes.BuildTypeAttr 'releaseStaging' and found incompatible value 'release'.
              - Found com.android.build.api.attributes.VariantAttr 'release' but wasn't required.
              - Required com.android.build.gradle.internal.dependency.AndroidTypeAttr 'Aar' and found compatible value 'Aar'.
              - Required org.gradle.usage 'java-runtime' and found incompatible value 'java-api'.
          - Configuration 'releaseRuntimeElements':
              - Required RNN.reactNativeVersion 'reactNative57_5' but no value provided.
              - Required com.android.build.api.attributes.BuildTypeAttr 'releaseStaging' and found incompatible value 'release'.
              - Found com.android.build.api.attributes.VariantAttr 'release' but wasn't required.
              - Required com.android.build.gradle.internal.dependency.AndroidTypeAttr 'Aar' and found compatible value 'Aar'.
              - Required org.gradle.usage 'java-runtime' and found compatible value 'java-runtime'.

RNN's error message is slightly different:

   > Could not resolve project :react-native-navigation.
     Required by:
         project :app
      > Unable to find a matching configuration of project :react-native-navigation:
          - Configuration 'reactNative57_5DebugApiElements':
              - Required RNN.reactNativeVersion 'reactNative57_5' and found compatible value 'reactNative57_5'.
              - Required com.android.build.api.attributes.BuildTypeAttr 'releaseStaging' and found incompatible value 'debug'.
              - Found com.android.build.api.attributes.VariantAttr 'reactNative57_5Debug' but wasn't required.
              - Required com.android.build.gradle.internal.dependency.AndroidTypeAttr 'Aar' and found compatible value 'Aar'.
              - Required org.gradle.usage 'java-runtime' and found incompatible value 'java-api'.
          - Configuration 'reactNative57_5DebugRuntimeElements':
              - Required RNN.reactNativeVersion 'reactNative57_5' and found compatible value 'reactNative57_5'.
              - Required com.android.build.api.attributes.BuildTypeAttr 'releaseStaging' and found incompatible value 'debug'.
              - Found com.android.build.api.attributes.VariantAttr 'reactNative57_5Debug' but wasn't required.
              - Required com.android.build.gradle.internal.dependency.AndroidTypeAttr 'Aar' and found compatible value 'Aar'.
              - Required org.gradle.usage 'java-runtime' and found compatible value 'java-runtime'.
          - Configuration 'reactNative57_5ReleaseApiElements':
              - Required RNN.reactNativeVersion 'reactNative57_5' and found compatible value 'reactNative57_5'.
              - Required com.android.build.api.attributes.BuildTypeAttr 'releaseStaging' and found incompatible value 'release'.
              - Found com.android.build.api.attributes.VariantAttr 'reactNative57_5Release' but wasn't required.
              - Required com.android.build.gradle.internal.dependency.AndroidTypeAttr 'Aar' and found compatible value 'Aar'.
              - Required org.gradle.usage 'java-runtime' and found incompatible value 'java-api'.
          - Configuration 'reactNative57_5ReleaseRuntimeElements':
              - Required RNN.reactNativeVersion 'reactNative57_5' and found compatible value 'reactNative57_5'.
              - Required com.android.build.api.attributes.BuildTypeAttr 'releaseStaging' and found incompatible value 'release'.
              - Found com.android.build.api.attributes.VariantAttr 'reactNative57_5Release' but wasn't required.
              - Required com.android.build.gradle.internal.dependency.AndroidTypeAttr 'Aar' and found compatible value 'Aar'.
              - Required org.gradle.usage 'java-runtime' and found compatible value 'java-runtime'.

Steps to Reproduce / Code Snippets / Screenshots

I apologize, I'm not sure how to reproduce this in a "clean" app, and I was wondering if anyone had seen this before.

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Environment

• React Native Navigation version: 2.11.0
• React Native version: 0.58.5
• Platform(s) (iOS, Android, or both?): Android
• Device info (Simulator/Device? OS version? Debug/Release?): Build issue for a release-type build.

[ahwatts]

This was totally not a bug with RNN. But if someone does get here from Google, I fixed it by setting the matchingFallbacks config option so that my releaseStaging build type corresponded to release build types in the dependent projects.

android {
    // ...
    buildTypes {
        releaseStaging {
            initWith release
            matchingFallbacks = ['release']
            // ...
        }
        releaseProduction {
            initWith release
            matchingFallbacks = ['release']
            // ...
        }
    }
}