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Android Build failed Task :react-native-reanimated:downloadBoost FAILED

See original GitHub issue

Description

After Adding react-native-reanimated library in React Native 0.70.0 we are getting below issue in Window 10:

error Failed to launch emulator. Reason: Emulator exited before boot..
warn Please launch an emulator manually or connect a device. Otherwise app may fail to launch.
info Installing the app...
Starting a Gradle Daemon, 3 incompatible and 1 stopped Daemons could not be reused, use --status for details

> Configure project :react-native-reanimated
Native libs debug enabled: false
Android gradle plugin: 7.2.1
Gradle: 7.5.1
building Reanimated2
WARNING:Software Components will not be created automatically for Maven publishing from Android Gradle Plugin 8.0. To opt-in to the future behavior, set the Gradle property android.disableAutomaticComponentCreation=true in the `gradle.properties` file or use the new publishing DSL.

> Task :react-native-reanimated:downloadHermes UP-TO-DATE
Download https://github.com/facebook/hermes/tarball/hermes-2022-08-16-RNv0.70.0-716d48baf36b0b326ab82f53207b8682c87fc017

> Task :react-native-reanimated:downloadDoubleConversion UP-TO-DATE
Download https://github.com/google/double-conversion/archive/v1.1.6.tar.gz

> Task :react-native-reanimated:downloadBoost
Download https://boostorg.jfrog.io/artifactory/main/release/1.76.0/source/boost_1_76_0.tar.gz

> Task :react-native-reanimated:downloadFolly UP-TO-DATE
Download https://github.com/facebook/folly/archive/v2021.07.22.00.tar.gz

> Task :react-native-reanimated:downloadGlog UP-TO-DATE
Download https://github.com/google/glog/archive/v0.3.5.tar.gz

> Task :react-native-reanimated:downloadBoost FAILED

Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 8.0.

You can use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings and determine if they come from your own scripts or plugins.

See https://docs.gradle.org/7.5.1/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings
376 actionable tasks: 4 executed, 372 up-to-date

FAILURE: Build completed with 2 failures.

1: Task failed with an exception.        
-----------
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':react-native-reanimated:downloadBoost'.
> A failure occurred while executing de.undercouch.gradle.tasks.download.internal.DefaultWorkerExecutorHelper$DefaultWorkAction
   > java.net.SocketException: Connection reset

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

2: Task failed with an exception.
-----------
* What went wrong:
java.lang.StackOverflowError (no error message)

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

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

BUILD FAILED in 3m 59s

error Failed to install the app. Make sure you have the Android development environment set up: https://reactnative.dev/docs/environment-setup.
Error: Command failed: gradlew.bat app:installDebug -PreactNativeDevServerPort=8081

FAILURE: Build completed with 2 failures.

1: Task failed with an exception.
-----------
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':react-native-reanimated:downloadBoost'.
> A failure occurred while executing de.undercouch.gradle.tasks.download.internal.DefaultWorkerExecutorHelper$DefaultWorkAction
   > java.net.SocketException: Connection reset

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

2: Task failed with an exception.
-----------
* What went wrong:
java.lang.StackOverflowError (no error message)

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

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

BUILD FAILED in 3m 59s

    at makeError (E:\SHWP\shwa-mobile\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\node_modules\execa\index.js:174:9)
    at E:\SHWP\shwa-mobile\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\node_modules\execa\index.js:278:16
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
    at async runOnAllDevices (E:\SHWP\shwa-mobile\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\build\commands\runAndroid\runOnAllDevices.js:109:5)
    at async Command.handleAction (E:\SHWP\shwa-mobile\node_mo
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I am struggling with the issue from past 2 days. Still not able to find the any solution. I have tried with cache clean. Invalidated Cache and Restart in Android Studio but still we are facing above see. Please check the screenshot for more details:

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