[HAS WORKAROUND] Android build fails for AAR metadata (app:checkDebugAarMetadata)

[ajith-ab]

WORKAROUND

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Description

Builds started failing couple hours ago.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:checkDebugAarMetadata'.
> A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.CheckAarMetadataWorkAction
   > The minCompileSdk (31) specified in a
     dependency's AAR metadata (META-INF/com/android/build/gradle/aar-metadata.properties)
     is greater than this module's compileSdkVersion (android-30).
     Dependency: androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.4.1.
     AAR metadata file: /Users/ajithab/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/39f92ca209255d032ca0f63ea8bb1f5a/transformed/appcompat-1.4.1/META-INF/com/android/build/gradle/aar-metadata.properties.

Version

0.67.2

Output of npx react-native info

System: OS: macOS 13.0 CPU: (8) arm64 Apple M1 Memory: 78.53 MB / 8.00 GB Shell: 5.8.1 - /bin/zsh Binaries: Node: 16.18.1 - /opt/homebrew/opt/node@16/bin/node Yarn: 1.22.19 - ~/develop/2dpoint-mobile-app/node_modules/.bin/yarn npm: 8.19.2 - /opt/homebrew/opt/node@16/bin/npm Watchman: 2022.10.31.00 - /opt/homebrew/bin/watchman Managers: CocoaPods: 1.11.3 - /opt/homebrew/bin/pod SDKs: iOS SDK: Platforms: DriverKit 22.1, iOS 16.1, macOS 13.0, tvOS 16.1, watchOS 9.1 Android SDK: Not Found IDEs: Android Studio: 2021.3 AI-213.7172.25.2113.9123335 Xcode: 14.1/14B47b - /usr/bin/xcodebuild Languages: Java: 11.0.17 - /usr/bin/javac npmPackages: @react-native-community/cli: Not Found react: 17.0.2 => 17.0.2 react-native: 0.67.2 => 0.67.2 react-native-macos: Not Found npmGlobalPackages: react-native: Not Found

Steps to reproduce

yarn run android

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

Please find below my android/build.gradle file

// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.

buildscript {
    ext {
        buildToolsVersion = "30.0.2"
        minSdkVersion = 21
        compileSdkVersion = 30
        targetSdkVersion = 30
        ndkVersion = "21.4.7075529"
    }
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.2.2")
        classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.13'
        // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
        // in the individual module build.gradle files
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        maven {
            // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
            url("$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android")
        }
        maven {
            // Android JSC is installed from npm
            url("$rootDir/../node_modules/jsc-android/dist")
        }
        mavenCentral {
            content {
                excludeGroup("com.facebook.react")
            }
        }
        jcenter() 
        google()
        maven { url 'https://www.jitpack.io' }
    }
}

[iamyamar]

same here.

[arianacosta]

What's the workaround? The same is happening on RN 0.64 after the 0.71 release was launched.

[cortinico]

Closing as stale and we haven't seen those kind of errors in a while, so I believe this was transient.