[Android] 2.3.1 and RNGH: can't build my Android app anymore (Expo SDK 44, Custom Dev Client)

Description

After upgrading, I can’t build my Android app anymore. I had no problems with SDK 43 / RNGH 1.3. As soon as RNGH is installed together with Reanimated, it ends up with an error

Screenshots

> Configure project :expo

Using expo modules
  - expo-application (4.0.1)
  - expo-constants (13.0.0)
  - expo-device (4.1.0)
  - expo-file-system (13.1.0)
  - expo-font (10.0.4)
  - expo-haptics (11.1.0)
  - expo-intent-launcher (10.1.0)
  - expo-json-utils (0.2.0)
  - expo-keep-awake (10.0.1)
  - expo-manifests (0.2.2)
  - expo-modules-core (0.6.3)
  - expo-notifications (0.14.0)
  - expo-splash-screen (0.14.0)
  - expo-system-ui (1.1.0)
  - react-native-reanimated (2.3.1)


FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '*****/myapp/node_modules/react-native-gesture-handler/android/build.gradle' line: 26

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':react-native-gesture-handler'.
> ****/myapp/packages/expo/android/../node_modules/react-native-reanimated/package.json (No such file or directory)

* Try:
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* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 7.0.
Use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings.
See https://docs.gradle.org/6.9/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings

BUILD FAILED in 10s
/myapp/packages/expo/android/gradlew exited with non-zero code: 1
Error: /myapp/packages/expo/android/gradlew exited with non-zero code: 1
    at ChildProcess.completionListener (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/expo-cli/node_modules/@expo/spawn-async/src/spawnAsync.ts:65:13)
    at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:520:26)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:400:28)
    at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1058:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:293:5)
    ...
    at spawnAsync (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/expo-cli/node_modules/@expo/spawn-async/src/spawnAsync.ts:26:19)
    at spawnGradleAsync (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/expo-cli/src/commands/run/android/spawnGradleAsync.ts:83:18)
    at assembleAsync (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/expo-cli/src/commands/run/android/spawnGradleAsync.ts:57:16)
    at actionAsync (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/expo-cli/src/commands/run/android/runAndroid.ts:143:9)
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.
The terminal process "zsh '-c', 'yarn run run:android'" terminated with exit code: 1.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Install RNGH with RNREA
2. Try to build with “expo run:android” (same applies to react-native run-android and yarn run android)

Expected behavior

Should build my Android App

Actual behavior

Build not possible

Hints

When I remove RNGH or RNREA, the build succeeds. So installing RNGH without REA or vice versa is possible, but not both together.

Package versions

• React Native: 0.64.3
• React Native Gesture Handler: 2.1.0

Affected platforms

• Android
• iOS
• Web

  Expo CLI 5.0.1 environment info:
    System:
      OS: macOS 11.6.1
      Shell: 5.8 - /bin/zsh
    Binaries:
      Node: 14.18.2 - /usr/local/opt/node@14/bin/node
      Yarn: 1.22.17 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
      npm: 6.14.15 - /usr/local/opt/node@14/bin/npm
    Managers:
      CocoaPods: 1.11.2 - /usr/local/bin/pod
    SDKs:
      iOS SDK:
        Platforms: DriverKit 21.2, iOS 15.2, macOS 12.1, tvOS 15.2, watchOS 8.3
    IDEs:
      Android Studio: 4.1 AI-201.8743.12.41.6953283
      Xcode: 13.2.1/13C100 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
    npmGlobalPackages:
      eas-cli: 0.33.0
      expo-cli: 5.0.1
    Expo Workflow: bare

[simontoulouze]

Hi, I’m getting the same error but directly related to react-native-reanimated.

A problem occurred evaluating project ':react-native-reanimated'.
> /home/expo/workingdir/build/app/native/node_modules/react-native/package.json (No such file or directory)

We have a monorepo and the react-native package is not located in app/native/node_modules but in app/node_modules.

Do you know any way to fix that ? I tried to patch the build.gradle function which resolves the react-native one, but it doesn’t seems to be considered during eas build

def resolveReactNativeDirectory() {
    if (isDeveloperMode()) {
        return file("$projectDir/../../node_modules/react-native")
    }
    return file("$projectDir/../../../../node_modules/react-native")
}

EDIT : fixed by downgrading react-native-reanimated from 2.8.0 to 2.6.0

[felippepuhle]

@piaskowyk how bad would be replacing return file("$projectDir/../../react-native") by return file(findNodeModulePath(projectDir, "react-native"))?

I fixed the problem applying the above as a patch on my repo, happy to put a PR if it makes sense:

diff --git a/node_modules/react-native-reanimated/android/build.gradle b/node_modules/react-native-reanimated/android/build.gradle
index cc460da..fc2e7a6 100644
--- a/node_modules/react-native-reanimated/android/build.gradle
+++ b/node_modules/react-native-reanimated/android/build.gradle
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ def resolveReactNativeDirectory() {
     if (isDeveloperMode()) {
         return file("$projectDir/../node_modules/react-native")
     }
-    return file("$projectDir/../../react-native")
+    return file(findNodeModulePath(projectDir, "react-native"))
 }
 
 abstract class replaceSoTask extends DefaultTask {

Thanks!