Android build fails due to jcenter dependencies

[itsfabijano]

We're experiencing the following error when trying to build our Android app. We already made sure that our build.gradle and our app/build.gradle match the ones in the docs (https://github.com/onfido/react-native-sdk#42-update-your-android-buildgradle-files).

Is anyone else experiencing this issue or does anyone have any ideas? Please help. Our team is currently blocked by this issue.

Error

> Task :app:lintVitalRelease FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:lintVitalRelease'.
> Could not resolve all artifacts for configuration ':onfido_react-native-sdk:releaseRuntimeClasspath'.
   > Could not resolve com.facebook.react:react-native:+.
     Required by:
         project :onfido_react-native-sdk
      > Failed to list versions for com.facebook.react:react-native.
         > Unable to load Maven meta-data from https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/facebook/react/react-native/maven-metadata.xml.
            > Could not get resource 'https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/facebook/react/react-native/maven-metadata.xml'.
               > Could not GET 'https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/facebook/react/react-native/maven-metadata.xml'.
                  > Read timed out

build.gradle

buildscript {
    ext {
        buildToolsVersion = "30.0.2"
        minSdkVersion = 21
        compileSdkVersion = 31
        targetSdkVersion = 31
        ndkVersion = "21.4.7075529"
        androidXBrowser = "1.3.0"

    }
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath('com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.2.2')
        classpath('com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.10')
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
        mavenLocal()
        maven {
            url("$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android")
        }
        maven {
            url("$rootDir/../node_modules/jsc-android/dist")
        }
        google()
        maven { url 'https://www.jitpack.io' }
        maven {
            url "$rootDir/../node_modules/expo-camera/android/maven"
        }
    }
}

app/build.gradle

[...]
android {
    defaultConfig {
        multiDexEnabled true
    }
    [...]
}
[...]

Versions

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** EDIT ** I'm getting this error when trying to build an APK: $ ./gradlew assembleRelease