React-native: Failure trying to build UIExplorer on Android

[dboydor]

Getting an error when trying to build Android version of UIExplorer. iOS version worked fine.

./gradlew :Examples:UIExplorer:android:app:installDebug

• Where:
  Build file '/Users/dboyd/mpp/workspace/client/react-native/ReactAndroid/build.gradle' line: 3

• What went wrong:
  A problem occurred evaluating project ':ReactAndroid'.

  java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/android/build/gradle/LibraryPlugin : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0

[helengray]

me too,the android studio require jre1.8

[helengray]

I solve the problem by change the gradle tools version:
dependencies { classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.1.3' }

[hramos]

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