kotlin-gradle-plugin version required by package not recent enough for react-native 0.71.0

[RenaudAubert]

Hi!
I've updated my app to react-native- 0.71.0 and when I run npx react-native run-android I get this error

* What went wrong:
The Android Gradle plugin supports only kotlin-android-extensions Gradle plugin version 1.6.20 and higher.
The following dependencies do not satisfy the required version:
project ':react-native-safe-area-context' -> org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.6.10

I tried creating a new app and installed react-navigation (which requires this package) and I also get this error.

I'm on windows 10 using node 16.14.2

[Romick2005]

Suggested fix is to replace
RNSAC_kotlinVersion=1.6.10
with
RNSAC_kotlinVersion=1.7.0
https://github.com/th3rdwave/react-native-safe-area-context/blob/8f93c44f14a5ea4fd398457848abb75809d66ecd/android/gradle.properties#L1

[RenaudAubert]

Suggested fix is to replace ReactNativeWebView_kotlinVersion=1.6.10 with ReactNativeWebView_kotlinVersion=1.7.0

https://github.com/th3rdwave/react-native-safe-area-context/blob/8f93c44f14a5ea4fd398457848abb75809d66ecd/android/gradle.properties#L1

That's what I figured. I didn't create a PR because changing RNSAC_kotlinVersion might have side effect and I know nothing about android development 😅

[kkafar]

Hi, I might be wrong, but looking at this code you can try to add following line to your project gradle.properites

kotlinVersion=1.6.20

It will most likely overwrite kotlin version used by the library, moreover - everything should be working just fine.

In react-native-screens I use 1.6.21 and it works fine with this library.

[janicduplessis]

Fixed in 4.5.0