Could not find com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.5.6.

[rubenhr]

Starting yesteday. Some weird behavior start ocurring. We didn't change anything in terms of configurations but our builds stops working.

Do you know, what could be a reason this starts failing?

[kefahB]

Hi,

Do you have this in your /app/App_Resources/Android/app.gradle ?

project.ext {
    googlePlayServicesVersion = "+"
}

[kefahB]

If it doesn't work, please post info about your NS config ns info and with which version on android you'r running.

[ebiscardi]

I have the same issue. Just to try to identify the problem, should be this issue related to the use of compile instruction in include.gradle, removed in gradle 7?
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/upgrading_version_6.html#sec:configuration_removal

As described here:
NativeScript/android#1706
when Nativescript CLI builds on Android, Gradle version is not pulled from the current platform, but from the latest Nativescript version, using first

npm view @nativescript/android dist-tags --json

to get the latest version, and then

npm view @nativescript/android@<version> gradle --json

to get the appropriate gradle info

You can see that using --log trace option when you build on Android.
For this reason, version 8.2.0 is broken, and fails to build on Android
The latest version (8.2.1), released some hours later, uses gradle 7.4:

npm view @nativescript/android@8.2.1  gradle --json
{
  "version": "7.4",
  "android": "7.1.2"
}

the previous ones, version 6.4

npm view @nativescript/android@7.0.1  gradle --json
{
  "version": "6.4",
  "android": "3.6.4"
}

npm view @nativescript/android@8.1.1  gradle --json
{
  "version": "6.4",
  "android": "3.6.4"
}

[rubenhr]

HI @kefahB
Yes, I have the googlePlayServicesVersion = "+" in our app.gradle file.
Weird thing is that suddently, everything starts working fine. But today I'm getting the same issue again.

We are using 8.1.5 version with Android 8.1.1.

But for some reason, gradle picks up latest version instead of the appropiate.

[lambourn]

see NativeScript/NativeScript#9814 (comment) - that should fix the issue (needs you to update CLI, though)

[kefahB]

Thanks @lambourn ;)

@rubenhr please try the fix and tel me

[CalebSWhite]

@kefahB Might need to update the include.gradle to use implementation rather than the deprecated compile.

[kefahB]

Hi everyone,

I've published a new version .. please give it a try and tel me if every think run as expected

[rubenhr]

Hi everyone.

So, at the end, I was able to fix all my issues upgrading to new NS version and also upgrading NG version.
I'm running now on 8.2.2 with Java 11.

I'm getting this error right now:

[lekhmanrus]

I have the same error as @rubenhr has:

ERROR in ./node_modules/@kefah/nativescript-google-maps/index.android.ts
Module build failed (from ../../node_modules/@ngtools/webpack/src/index.js):
Error: \node_modules\@kefah\nativescript-google-maps\index.android.ts is missing from the TypeScript 
compilation. Please make sure it is in your tsconfig via the 'files' or 'include' property.
    at \node_modules\@ngtools\webpack\src\ivy\loader.js:60:26

@nativescript/android: 8.2.2
@kefah/nativescript-google-maps: 1.0.4

[kefahB]

@lekhmanrus, @rubenhr can you provide a sample project with the error, because every think work as expected even with angular project.

[CalebSWhite]

@kefahB looks like you might have published the plugin unbuilt to npm. It doesn't have the js files and it shouldn't include the tsconfig

[kefahB]

@CalebSWhite, I've build the project, in my own I do have the tsconfig ! and it work as expected!

[CalebSWhite]

It just looks a bit different from the previous (npm) packaged version. Since no code was changed (just the gradle and a version bump) I assumed it was a build/packing step???

[kefahB]

Oh, I've mad a npm publish that does not build by default! this repo it is a NS plugin that integrate the command npm run publish-package and it does the build before pushing a new version :)

Please take a test and tel me ;)

[CalebSWhite]

Good stuff. v1.0.6 is working for me.

[rubenhr]

1.0.6 is working for me too. We can close this ticket. Thanks a lot for all comments