Unable to build on Android after upgrading lottie version 3.5.0 to 4.1.3

After changing from gradle distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.3-bin.zip to distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.1.1-all.zip and upgrade lottie library version in react native from 3.5.0 to 4.1.3 the app was unable to build and prompt the following exception:-

`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/7.1.1/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings

FAILURE: Build completed with 2 failures.

1: Task failed with an exception.

• Where: Build file ‘/Users/inphosoftmalaysia/nacli-mobile/node_modules/react-native-reanimated/android/build.gradle’ line: 21

• What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating project ‘:react-native-reanimated’.

Plugin with id ‘maven’ not found.

• 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: A problem occurred configuring project ‘:react-native-reanimated’.

compileSdkVersion is not specified. Please add it to build.gradle

• 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 6s

error Failed to install the app. Make sure you have the Android development environment set up: https://reactnative.dev/docs/environment-setup. Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details. Error: Command failed: ./gradlew app:installDevdebug -PreactNativeDevServerPort=8081`

Steps to Reproduce Basically I just upgraded to latest versions:

1. yarn add lottie-react-native from 3.5.0 to 4.1.3
2. yarn add lottie-ios from 3.1.8 to 3.2.3
3. react-native run-android

Expected behavior: To compile Android successfully.

Actual behavior: After step 3, I got the build exception.

Package versions "lottie-ios": "3.2.3", "lottie-react-native": "^4.1.3", "react-native": "0.63.2",

[comann]

Here is a work-around solution that is working for me.

Add this into the root build.gradle, and it will add a blank ‘compile’ configurations to avoid the crash during configuration evaluation of the Javadocs task.

subprojects { subproject ->
        if(project['name'] == 'react-native-reanimated'){
            project.configurations { compile { } }
        }
}

[radko93]

Seems like it might be a problem with gradle plugin version. Can you try using 6.9 instead of 7.1.1? Also, your React Native version is quite old so it might be an issue.