Build failing after upgrading react-native to 0.74.1

[aledepaulaaa]

Description

info Opening app on Android...
info A dev server is already running for this project on port 8081.
info Launching emulator...
info Installing the app...

Task :gradle-plugin:checkKotlinGradlePluginConfigurationErrors
Task :gradle-plugin:compileKotlin UP-TO-DATE
Task :gradle-plugin:compileJava NO-SOURCE
Task :gradle-plugin:pluginDescriptors UP-TO-DATE
Task :gradle-plugin:processResources
Task :gradle-plugin:classes
Task :gradle-plugin:jar

Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 9.0.

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

For more on this, please refer to https://docs.gradle.org/8.3/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings in the Gradle documentation.
5 actionable tasks: 3 executed, 2 up-to-date

info 💡 Tip: Make sure that you have set up your development environment correctly, by running npx react-native doctor. To read more about doctor command visit: https://github.com/react-native-community/cli/blob/main/packages/cli-doctor/README.md#doctor

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong:
  Could not determine the dependencies of task ':app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac'.

Could not resolve all task dependencies for configuration ':app:debugCompileClasspath'.
Could not find com.facebook.react:flipper-integration:.
Required by:
project :app

• Try:

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BUILD FAILED in 15s
info Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details.

Steps to reproduce

1 . npm start
2 . a: run on Android

React Native Version

0.74.1

Affected Platforms

Runtime - Android

Output of npx react-native info

info Fetching system and libraries information...
(node:2760) [DEP0040] DeprecationWarning: The `punycode` module is deprecated. Please use a userland alternative instead.
(Use `node --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created)
System:
  OS: Windows 10 10.0.19045
  CPU: (6) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9400F CPU @ 2.90GHz
  Memory: 3.98 GB / 15.96 GB
Binaries:
  Node:
    version: 22.0.0
    path: C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE
  Yarn:
    version: 1.22.19
    path: ~\AppData\Roaming\npm\yarn.CMD
  npm:
    version: 9.8.1
    path: C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD
  Watchman: Not Found
SDKs:
  Android SDK:
    API Levels:
      - "29"
      - "33"
      - "34"
    Build Tools:
      - 33.0.1
      - 34.0.0
    System Images:
      - android-29 | Google Play Intel x86 Atom
      - android-TiramisuPrivacySandbox | Google Play Intel x86_64 Atom
    Android NDK: Not Found
  Windows SDK: Not Found
IDEs:
  Android Studio: AI-233.14808.21.2331.11709847
  Visual Studio:
    - 17.6.33815.320 (Visual Studio Community 2022)
Languages:
  Java:
    version: 17.0.4.1
    path: /c/Program Files/Eclipse Adoptium/jdk-17.0.4.101-hotspot/bin/javac
  Ruby: Not Found
npmPackages:
  "@react-native-community/cli": Not Found
  react:
    installed: 18.3.1
    wanted: ^18.3.1
  react-native:
    installed: 0.74.1
    wanted: ^0.74.1
  react-native-windows: Not Found
npmGlobalPackages:
  "*react-native*": Not Found
Android:
  hermesEnabled: true
  newArchEnabled: false
iOS:
  hermesEnabled: Not found
  newArchEnabled: Not found

Stacktrace or Logs

info Opening app on Android...
info A dev server is already running for this project on port 8081.
info Launching emulator...
info Installing the app...
> Task :gradle-plugin:checkKotlinGradlePluginConfigurationErrors
> Task :gradle-plugin:compileKotlin UP-TO-DATE
> Task :gradle-plugin:compileJava NO-SOURCE
> Task :gradle-plugin:pluginDescriptors UP-TO-DATE
> Task :gradle-plugin:processResources
> Task :gradle-plugin:classes
> Task :gradle-plugin:jar

Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 9.0.

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

For more on this, please refer to https://docs.gradle.org/8.3/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings in the Gradle documentation.
5 actionable tasks: 3 executed, 2 up-to-date

Reproducer

https://github.com/aledepaulaaa/reactnative-failure

Screenshots and Videos

[cortinico]

Could not find com.facebook.react:flipper-integration:.

You need to remove the flipper integration line from your build.gradle file:

Here the link to the upgrade helper

[aledepaulaaa]

ok, I'll test it here, thanks @cortinico

[aledepaulaaa]

Apparently, it seems to have worked, the other problem now seems to be with the minimum SDK that version 0.74.1 is requiring, which for the Android emulator is 23. I was using 21. I'll fix that 👍🏾