[Android][RN@0.71.1] Could not find com.facebook.react:react-native

[birdofpreyru]

Description

@cortinico Essentially, I believe, I encountered the same issue with RN@0.71.0–0.71.1 as #35909 and #35945. As I mentioned in #35909 (I think you overlooked my message in the thread there), I also encounter this problem when I create a standard scaffolding for a library using

$ npx create-react-native-library@latest react-native-awesome-module

With Turbo module with backward compat, Java and Objective-C; then installing NPM dependencies, copying in Gradle (thus, looking into Android build), and running ./gradlew lint ⇐ I guess, this should do as a repro?

Version

0.71.1

Output of npx react-native info

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Steps to reproduce

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Snack, code example, screenshot, or link to a repository

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[cortinico]

I also encounter this problem when I create a standard scaffolding for a library using

So let's try to keep things separate. The problem you faced with create-react-native-library should be reported here:
https://github.com/callstack/react-native-builder-bob/issues

Anyway I'm going to answer here as I already have an answer for you:

copying in Gradle (thus, looking into Android build), and running ./gradlew lint ⇐ I guess, this should do as a repro?

You're not supposed to copy gradlew there and you're also not supposed to run ./gradlew lint from that folder. The reason being that inside the ./android folder you just have a library, but not a full Gradle build (previously it was probably working for you by chance, but you're not supposed to invoke Gradle from there anyway. You're missing crucial files like settings.gradle and other files there).

You should be invoking gradlew from the ./example/android folder instead (or generally from the app project, not from the library project). Specifically create-react-native-library creates for you an example app in the ./example folder that you can use to test your library.

So to invoke lint in your case you will have to:

npx create-react-native-library@latest react-native-awesome-module && cd react-native-awesome-module && yarn && cd example/android && ./gradlew lint

(Note that this will run lint on both the app and the library module. If you want to lint only the library you'll have to ./gradlew react-native-awesome-module:lint

[birdofpreyru]

Thanks @cortinico ! It turns out I misread the new architecture migration guide back when upgrading my library to RN@0.69 and the new architecture. It says to configure gradle plugin for the app as a prerequiste for lib, but I also added it to the library, and somehow it worked fine prior to RN@0.71.

[Sunbreak]

Probably duplicate of callstack/react-native-builder-bob#361, fixed by callstack/react-native-builder-bob#362

Try add + back

   // For < 0.71, this will be from the local maven repo
   // For > 0.71, this will be replaced by `com.facebook.react:react-android:$version` by react gradle plugin
   //noinspection GradleDynamicVersion
-  implementation "com.facebook.react:react-native"
+  implementation "com.facebook.react:react-native:+"