Build failure with v1.7.0 and RN 0.69.4

[zarkoden]

Description

Android build fails with message:

FAILURE: Build completed with 2 failures.

1: Task failed with an exception.
-----------
* Where:
Build file '/Users/zarkodencic/Documents/Coding/ReanimatedTest/node_modules/react-native-reanimated/android/build.gradle' line: 21

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':react-native-reanimated'.
> Plugin with id 'maven' not found.

Steps to reproduce

Run: npx react-native run-android

Snack or a link to a repository

https://github.com/zarcode/ReanimatedTest

Reanimated version

1.7.0

React Native version

0.69.4

Platforms

Android

JavaScript runtime

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Workflow

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Architecture

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Build type

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Device

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Device model

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Acknowledgements

Yes

[Kwasow]

Hi, thanks for reporting the issue, it seems to be due to the maven plugin being removed in Gradle version 7.0 (https://docs.gradle.org/7.0/userguide/upgrading_version_6.html#removal_of_the_legacy_maven_plugin).

You can try one of the two things as a workaround, before we fix this on our end:

• downgrade Gradle to a 6.x version
• ~~change apply plugin: 'maven' to apply plugin: 'maven-publish' in the file that is mentioned in the error message~~ I think this might not actually work, but feel free to try it anyway

[zarkoden]

@Kwasow, thanks for reply, I got:

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':react-native-gradle-plugin:compileKotlin'.
> Compilation error. See log for more details

after I changed:

1. build.gradle classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.2.2")
2. android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.9-all.zip
3. android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar

[Kwasow]

Hi again, Reanimated v1 is in legacy support now, and we only fix major issues. We cannot guarantee that it works with new Gradle and React Native versions. We encourage you to use Reanimated v2, which is actively supported and includes all the features of v1.

[zarcode]

Didn't know that v2 supports old APIs. @Kwasow thank you very much.

[Latropos]

Closing the issue, since it is related to deprecated Reanimated v1