Failed to notify project evaluation listener

Description

I trying to first run an react-native app with react-native run-android.

Expected Behavior

I expect it to work, like it does when I call react-native run-ios

Observed Behavior

react-native run-android
Scanning folders for symlinks in /Users/tiagogouvea/www/go-along/mobile/node_modules (12ms)
JS server already running.
Building and installing the app on the device (cd android && ./gradlew installDebug)...
WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by org.gradle.internal.reflect.JavaMethod (file:/Users/tiagogouvea/.gradle/wrapper/dists/gradle-4.0-milestone-1-all/2rnr7rhi2zsmkxo9re7615fy6/gradle-4.0-milestone-1/lib/gradle-base-services-4.0.jar) to method java.lang.ClassLoader.getPackages()
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of org.gradle.internal.reflect.JavaMethod
WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release
NDK is missing a "platforms" directory.
If you are using NDK, verify the ndk.dir is set to a valid NDK directory.  It is currently set to /Users/tiagogouvea/Library/Android/sdk/ndk-bundle.
If you are not using NDK, unset the NDK variable from ANDROID_NDK_HOME or local.properties to remove this warning.


FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred configuring project ':app'.
> Failed to notify project evaluation listener.
   > javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlSchema

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED in 4s
Could not install the app on the device, read the error above for details.
Make sure you have an Android emulator running or a device connected and have
set up your Android development environment:
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/android-setup.html

Environment

Please run these commands in the project folder and fill in their results:

• npm ls react-native-scripts: empty
• npm ls react-native: react-native@0.50.3
• npm ls expo: empty
• node -v: v8.0.0
• npm -v: 5.5.1
• yarn --version: 1.2.1
• watchman version: 4.9.0

1. Operating system: macOs 10.12.6
2. Phone/emulator/simulator & version: Genymotion image

Reproducible Demo

To validate it I started a clean project with react-native init goalong and try to run it with react-native run-android.

[shan-du]

EDIT: it’s likely the JDK version you have (java -version) You need to use JDK 8, v9 does NOT work

[cparjaszewski]

Why JDK v9 doesn’t work? Java 10 is ahead of us, shouldn’t we use the newest possible version all the time and this ticket should be closed when it’s done?