React Native error while building for android - Task :react-native-gesture-handler:compileReleaseKotlin FAILED

Question

Here is the error I'm facing while building the android apk of a branch. (does not happen while building for ios). I have been using react-native-gesture-handler since years on this codebase but never faced this error.

This error started occuring after a pr was merged, but this pr does not contain any android side native change.

Version Info : react-native-gesture-handler: ^2.3.2 kotlin version in build.gradle: 1.6.10 react-native version: 0.68.5

> Task :react-native-gesture-handler:compileReleaseKotlin FAILED
e: /Users/saumya/Desktop/latest/lc-app/node_modules/react-native-gesture-handler/android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/gesturehandler/react/RNGestureHandlerButtonViewManager.kt: (247, 92): Unresolved reference: TIRAMISU

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':react-native-gesture-handler:compileReleaseKotlin'.
> Compilation error. See log for more details

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

Have tried popular solutions for this issue like :

1. using this

npm i jetifier
npx jetify

2. these are already present in gradle.properties :

android.useAndroidX=true  
android.enableJetifier=true

but still the issue is not getting solved!

Please share any solutions or ask any info . It will be super helpful.

Answer 1

This react-native-gesture-handler issue seems to be popping up everywhere. There must be a version mismatch in the packages that is leading to this error. You'll have to update your entire project and look for breaking changes.

Or, downgrading to react-native-gesture-handler to version 2.8.0 should work in most cases: yarn add [email protected]

Answer 2

Updating android/build.gradle sdk versions works for me:

buildscript {
  ext {
    targetSdkVersion  '33.0.0'
    buildToolsVersion = 33
    compileSdkVersion = 33
  }
}