Command failed: gradlew.bat installDebug

Question

While developing an app I came into following error. I tried downgrading the java version from 11 to 8, but that wasn't helpful.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Could not create service of type ScriptPluginFactory using BuildScopeServices.createScriptPluginFactory().
> Could not create service of type PluginResolutionStrategyInternal using BuildScopeServices.createPluginResolutionStrategy().

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

BUILD FAILED in 15s
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/getting-started.html

Command failed: gradlew.bat installDebug

Error: Command failed: gradlew.bat installDebug
    at checkExecSyncError (child_process.js:616:11)
    at Object.execFileSync (child_process.js:634:13)
    at runOnAllDevices (C:\Users\samie\Documents\React Native\auth\node_modules\react-native\local-cli\runAndroid\runAndroid.js:299:19)
    at buildAndRun (C:\Users\samie\Documents\React Native\auth\node_modules\react-native\local-cli\runAndroid\runAndroid.js:135:12)
    at isPackagerRunning.then.result (C:\Users\samie\Documents\React Native\auth\node_modules\react-native\local-cli\runAndroid\runAndroid.js:65:12)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)

Answer 1

How I solved this problem:

First, make sure that I have %java_home% variable set and also %path% has the java sdk included. How to setup Java environment variables

Second, Go to your android folder and run this command:

C:\Projects\myproject\android>gradlew.bat app:installDebug.

Unzipping C:\Users\codeb.gradle\wrapper\dists\gradle-4.10.2-all\9fahxiiecdb76a5g3aw9oi8rv\gradle-4.10.2-all.zip to C:\Users\codeb.gradle\wrapper\dists\gradle-4.10.2-all\9fahxiiecdb76a5g3aw9oi8rv Exception in thread "main" java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method) at java.util.zip.ZipFile.(ZipFile.java:225) at java.util.zip.ZipFile.(ZipFile.java:155) at java.util.zip.ZipFile.(ZipFile.java:169) at org.gradle.wrapper.Install.unzip(Install.java:215) at org.gradle.wrapper.Install.access$600(Install.java:27) at org.gradle.wrapper.Install$1.call(Install.java:75) at org.gradle.wrapper.Install$1.call(Install.java:48) at org.gradle.wrapper.ExclusiveFileAccessManager.access(ExclusiveFileAccessManager.java:69) at org.gradle.wrapper.Install.createDist(Install.java:48) at org.gradle.wrapper.WrapperExecutor.execute(WrapperExecutor.java:107) at org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain.main(GradleWrapperMain.java:61)

As you can see that my gradle download is corrupt. All you have to do is delete this folder and rerun the command.

C:\Projects\myproject\android>gradlew.bat app:installDebug

Downloading https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.10.2-all.zip ............................................................................................................... Unzipping C:\Users\codeb.gradle\wrapper\dists\gradle-4.10.2-all\9fahxiiecdb76a5g3aw9oi8rv\gradle-4.10.2-all.zip to C:\Users\codeb.gradle\wrapper\dists\gradle-4.10.2-all\9fahxiiecdb76a5g3aw9oi8rv

Welcome to Gradle 4.10.2!

Here are the highlights of this release: - Incremental Java compilation by default - Periodic Gradle caches cleanup - Gradle Kotlin DSL 1.0-RC6 - Nested included builds - SNAPSHOT plugin versions in the plugins {} block

For more details see https://docs.gradle.org/4.10.2/release-notes.html

Now, you can go back to your react native project and run

react-native run-android

info JS server already running. info Building and installing the app on the device (cd android && gradlew.bat app:installDebug)...

Task :app:installDebug 01:03:18 V/ddms: execute: running am get-config 01:03:18 V/ddms: execute 'am get-config' on 'emulator-5554' : EOF hit. Read: -1 01:03:18 V/ddms: execute: returning Installing APK 'app-debug.apk' on 'Pixel_2_API_28(AVD) - 9' for app:debug 01:03:18 D/app-debug.apk: Uploading app-debug.apk onto device 'emulator-5554' 01:03:18 D/Device: Uploading file onto device 'emulator-5554' 01:03:18 D/ddms: Reading file permision of C:\Projects\xx\android\app\build\outputs\apk\debug\app-debug.apk as: rwx------ 01:03:18 V/ddms: execute: running pm install -r -t "/data/local/tmp/app-debug.apk" 01:03:19 V/ddms: execute 'pm install -r -t "/data/local/tmp/app-debug.apk"' on 'emulator-5554' : EOF hit. Read: -1 01:03:19 V/ddms: execute: returning 01:03:19 V/ddms: execute: running rm "/data/local/tmp/app-debug.apk" 01:03:19 V/ddms: execute 'rm "/data/local/tmp/app-debug.apk"' on 'emulator-5554' : EOF hit. Read: -1 01:03:19 V/ddms: execute: returning Installed on 1 device.

BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 9s 27 actionable tasks: 1 executed, 26 up-to-date info Running C:\Users\codeb\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk/platform-tools/adb -s emulator-5554 reverse tcp:8081 tcp:8081 info Starting the app on emulator-5554 (C:\Users\codeb\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk/platform-tools/adb -s emulator-5554 shell am start -n com.myproject/com.myproject.MainActivity)... Starting: Intent { cmp=com.myproject/.MainActivity }