(React Native): Execution failed for task ':app:generatePackageList'

Question

I am generating an apk of a project that I developed using React Native. But when I run the command ./gradlew assembleRelease The following error appears:

> Configure project :react-native-audio
WARNING: Configuration 'compile' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'implementation' and 'api'.
It will be removed in version 5.0 of the Android Gradle plugin.
For more information, see http://d.android.com/r/tools/update-dependency-configurations.html.

> Task :app:generatePackageList FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Script 'C:\Users\romer\ProjetoAP\Gravador\teste\Gravador_de_audio\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\native_modules.gradle' line: 131

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:generatePackageList'.
> argument type mismatch

* 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

Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 8.0.
Use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings.
See https://docs.gradle.org/7.0/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings

BUILD FAILED in 24s
1 actionable task: 1 executed
PS C:\users\romer\ProjetoAP\Gravador\teste\Gravador_de_audio\android>

How to solve this problem?

Answer 1

I just ran across the same problem and was able to track down why it was happening on my system. Using the --stacktrace flag helped to figure out what was going on, which ended up pointing to the react-native-community/cli package.

After scanning the issues and PRs in the react-native-community/cli repo, I found this PR https://github.com/react-native-community/cli/pull/1396 which adds support for Gradle 7.

I had Gradle 7 on my system and downgrading to Gradle 6, running gradle wrapper, then ./gradlew clean allowed me to move on.

Hope that solves your issue, or at least gives you some insight on how to track it down on your system!

Answer 2

Use Gradle Version 6.9

Here are the highlights of this release:

• This is a small backport release.
• Java 16 can be used to compile when used with Java toolchains
• Dynamic versions can be used within plugin declarations
• Native support for Apple Silicon processors

Use Gradle Wrapper to change the Version.

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version 6.9

Answer 3

+1 for downgrade to 6. I wanted to do some upgrades today, but ended up opposite.

Answer 4

Upgrade your react-native version to the latest one with npx react-native upgrade

I had to upgrade from JDK 1.8 to 11 and this error occurred.

Thanks to J Myers answer I found that I had to upgrade the react native version: https://github.com/react-native-community/cli/pull/1396

Answer 5

Replacing distributionUrl with https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.9-all.zip in gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties fixed everything for me. Thank GOD

Answer 6

Steps to solve it for React Native*

1. Find apply from: file("../../node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-android/native_modules.gradle"); applyNativeModulesAppBuildGradle(project) in your app -> build.gradle.

2. Check if this line of code is being repeated.

3. Comment out one of them.

This should solve your issue.

Answer 7

Instead of downgrading, I checked the reactNativeModule parameter mentioned at line 131.

It seems like ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>>[] packages = this.reactNativeModules, there is literally a mismatch.

Indeed reactNativeModule doesn't have brackets in his declaration.

So I changed :

ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>>[] packages = this.reactNativeModules

to

ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> packages = this.reactNativeModules.

Answer 8

Upgrading @react-native-community/cli as described here solved the issue for me: https://github.com/react-native-community/cli#updating-the-cli

If you use lock files (yarn.lock or package-lock.json) - find all the @react-native-community/cli prefixed entries, remove them, run yarn install / npm install once again.