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Could not determine java version from '9.0.4'.

See original GitHub issue

Is this a bug report?

Yes

Have you read the Contributing Guidelines?

Yes

Environment

Environment: OS: Linux 4.13 Node: 9.4.0 Yarn: Not Found npm: 4.6.1 Watchman: Not Found Xcode: N/A Android Studio: 3.0 AI-171.4443003

Packages: (wanted => installed) react: 16.2.0 => 16.2.0 react-native: 0.52.0 => 0.52.0

Steps to Reproduce

Plugged an Android phone, enabled developer mode and debugging and confirmed that adb is recognised the device by running adb devices
Followed the official docs and created a react-native app called AwesomeProject using react-native init AwesomeProject command.
Changed the directory to inside the project and ran react-native run-android

Expected Behavior

Start the AwesomeProject in connected Android Device.

Actual Behavior

Didn’t start the app on my mobile. Error on console appeared.

Scanning folders for symlinks in /home/pankaja/Documents/Projects/react-native/AwesomeProject/node_modules (7ms)
Starting JS server...
Building and installing the app on the device (cd android && ./gradlew installDebug)...

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Could not determine java version from '9.0.4'.

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
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
^C
pankaja@pankaja-HP-Pavilion-15-Notebook-PC:~/Documents/Projects/react-native/AwesomeProject$ react-native info

Screenshot

Reproducible Demo

react-native init AwesomeProject
cd AwesomeProject
react-native run-android

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:25 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

20reactions

katerynajeevacommented, Jan 22, 2018

just in case you need a quick fix, you can uninstall JDK 9 and install JDK 8 instead

11reactions

azmanahmed21commented, Feb 9, 2018

Hey, I had the same issue. I went to the gradle. properties file and changed the version in the ‘distributionUrl’ field to the latest version.

distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.4-all.zip

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