Error building Litho with React Native: Bad service configuration file, or exception thrown while constructing Processor object:...

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Version

compile fileTree(dir: "libs", include: ["*.jar"])
compile "com.facebook.react:react-native:+"  // From node_modules

// Litho
compile 'com.facebook.litho:litho-core:0.14.0'
compile 'com.facebook.litho:litho-widget:0.14.0'
provided 'com.facebook.litho:litho-annotations:0.14.0'

annotationProcessor 'com.facebook.litho:litho-processor:0.14.0'

// SoLoader
compile 'com.facebook.soloader:soloader:0.2.0'

// For integration with Fresco
compile 'com.facebook.litho:litho-fresco:0.14.0'

// For testing
testCompile 'com.facebook.litho:litho-testing:0.14.0'

// Sections
compile 'com.facebook.litho:litho-sections-core:0.14.0'
compile 'com.facebook.litho:litho-sections-widget:0.14.0'
provided 'com.facebook.litho:litho-sections-annotations:0.14.0'

annotationProcessor 'com.facebook.litho:litho-sections-processor:0.14.0'

Issues and Steps to Reproduce

Attempting to integrate Litho with React Native. I have followed “Getting Started” and FAQs Using Litho with React Native. Gradle is syncing successfully, but when I build the project it comes back with this error:

error: Bad service configuration file, or exception thrown while constructing Processor object: javax.annotation.processing.Processor: Provider com.facebook.litho.specmodels.processor.ComponentsProcessor could not be instantiated: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/facebook/litho/annotations/FromPrepare

FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong: Execution failed for task ‘:app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac’.

Compilation failed; see the compiler error output for details.

Expected Behavior

Project can build without errors. Project is extremely bare bones, haven’t added any additional code to my MainActivity or MainApplication file, everything fresh from react-native init with a react-native run-android

Link to Code

My App build.gradle file

 apply plugin: "com.android.application"
 import com.android.build.OutputFile
 project.ext.react = [
     entryFile: "index.js"
 ]
 apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native/react.gradle"
 def enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture = false
 def enableProguardInReleaseBuilds = false
 android {
   compileSdkVersion 27
   buildToolsVersion "27.0.1"

  defaultConfig {
      applicationId "com.lithodiscovery"
      minSdkVersion 18
      targetSdkVersion 27
      versionCode 1
      versionName "1.0"
      ndk {
          abiFilters "armeabi-v7a", "x86"
      }
  }
  splits {
      abi {
          reset()
          enable enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture
          universalApk false  // If true, also generate a universal APK
          include "armeabi-v7a", "x86"
      }
  }
  buildTypes {
      release {
          minifyEnabled enableProguardInReleaseBuilds
          proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile("proguard-android.txt"), "proguard-rules.pro"
      }
  }
  // applicationVariants are e.g. debug, release
  applicationVariants.all { variant ->
      variant.outputs.each { output ->
          // For each separate APK per architecture, set a unique version code as described here:
          // http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-guide/apk-splits
          def versionCodes = ["armeabi-v7a":1, "x86":2]
          def abi = output.getFilter(OutputFile.ABI)
          if (abi != null) {  // null for the universal-debug, universal-release variants
              output.versionCodeOverride =
                      versionCodes.get(abi) * 1048576 + defaultConfig.versionCode
          }
      }
   }
}

configurations.all {
    exclude group: 'com.facebook.yoga', module: 'yoga'
    exclude group: 'com.facebook.litho', module: 'litho-annotations'
    resolutionStrategy {
        force 'com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305:1.3.9'
        force 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:26.+'
        force 'com.android.support:support-compat:26.+'
        force 'com.android.support:support-core-ui:26.+'
        force 'com.android.support:support-annotations:26.+'
        force 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:26.+'
   }
}

  dependencies {
  compile fileTree(dir: "libs", include: ["*.jar"])
  compile "com.facebook.react:react-native:+"  // From node_modules

  // Litho
  compile 'com.facebook.litho:litho-core:0.14.0'
  compile 'com.facebook.litho:litho-widget:0.14.0'
  provided 'com.facebook.litho:litho-annotations:0.14.0'

  annotationProcessor 'com.facebook.litho:litho-processor:0.14.0'

  // SoLoader
  compile 'com.facebook.soloader:soloader:0.2.0'

  // For integration with Fresco
  compile 'com.facebook.litho:litho-fresco:0.14.0'

  // For testing
  testCompile 'com.facebook.litho:litho-testing:0.14.0'

  // Sections
  compile 'com.facebook.litho:litho-sections-core:0.14.0'
  compile 'com.facebook.litho:litho-sections-widget:0.14.0'
  provided 'com.facebook.litho:litho-sections-annotations:0.14.0'

  annotationProcessor 'com.facebook.litho:litho-sections-processor:0.14.0'
}

// Run this once to be able to run the application with BUCK
// puts all compile dependencies into folder libs for BUCK to use
task copyDownloadableDepsToLibs(type: Copy) {
    from configurations.compile
    into 'libs'
}

My Project build.gradle file

 buildscript {
     repositories {
         jcenter()
     }
     dependencies {
          classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.1'

         // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
         // in the individual module build.gradle files
     }
  }

allprojects {
    repositories {
       mavenLocal()
       jcenter()
       maven {
            // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
            url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android"
       }
       maven { url 'https://maven.google.com' }
    }
}

[DropKode21]

Yes all good!, Thanks again @passy

[DropKode21]

All good, thanks again @passy for all your help. Got it up and going with 13. Now for the fun part of bridging it to react native. Wish me luck.

Also if anyone has any leads they don’t mind sharing on the subject, any advice is appreciated. Thank you in advance.