compile project (':react-native-aes-crypto') fails

[acarlstein]

Just an FYI, I think the instructions are outdated by the current version of Gradle.

I followed the instructions in the README.md. I am getting the error:

For some reason, the line compile project(':react-native-aes-crypto'), added under dependencies, in the file android/app/build.gradle fails:

A problem occurred evaluating project ':app'.
> Could not find method compile() for arguments [project ':react-native-aes-crypto'] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler.

Here is the information provided by gradle:

./gradlew --version                  

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Gradle 8.3
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Build time:   2023-08-17 07:06:47 UTC
Revision:     8afbf24b469158b714b36e84c6f4d4976c86fcd5

Kotlin:       1.9.0
Groovy:       3.0.17
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.13 compiled on January 4 2023
JVM:          21.0.1 (Oracle Corporation 21.0.1+12-29)
OS:           Mac OS X 14.2 x86_64

[acarlstein]

Tried changing to implementation project(':react-native-aes-crypto') but getting:

Execution failed for task ':react-native-aes-crypto:compileDebugJavaWithJavac'.
> Could not resolve all files for configuration ':react-native-aes-crypto:androidJdkImage'.
   > Failed to transform core-for-system-modules.jar to match attributes {artifactType=_internal_android_jdk_image, org.gradle.libraryelements=jar, org.gradle.usage=java-runtime}.