Failed to notify project evaluation listener > javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlSchema

Question

I trying to first run an react-native app with react-native run-android. I expect it to work, like it does when I call react-native run-ios. Have a lot of users with same kind of error here on stack, "Failed to notify project evaluation listener".

Observed Behavior

> react-native run-android
Scanning folders for symlinks in /Users/tiagogouvea/www/go-along/mobile/node_modules (12ms)
JS server already running.
Building and installing the app on the device (cd android && ./gradlew installDebug)...
WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by org.gradle.internal.reflect.JavaMethod (file:/Users/tiagogouvea/.gradle/wrapper/dists/gradle-4.0-milestone-1-all/2rnr7rhi2zsmkxo9re7615fy6/gradle-4.0-milestone-1/lib/gradle-base-services-4.0.jar) to method java.lang.ClassLoader.getPackages()
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of org.gradle.internal.reflect.JavaMethod
WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release
NDK is missing a "platforms" directory.
If you are using NDK, verify the ndk.dir is set to a valid NDK directory.  It is currently set to /Users/tiagogouvea/Library/Android/sdk/ndk-bundle.
If you are not using NDK, unset the NDK variable from ANDROID_NDK_HOME or local.properties to remove this warning.


FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred configuring project ':app'.
> Failed to notify project evaluation listener.
   > javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlSchema

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

BUILD FAILED in 4s
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/android-setup.html

Environment

• npm ls react-native-scripts: empty
• npm ls react-native: [email protected]
• npm ls expo: empty
• node -v: v8.0.0
• npm -v: 5.5.1
• yarn --version: 1.2.1

• watchman version: 4.9.0

  1. Operating system: macOs 10.12.6
  2. Phone/emulator/simulator & version: Genymotion image

Answer 1

As mentioned in a comment to the bug filed by OP, Gradle seems to have issues with Java 9 or later.

You need to install JDK 8 (JRE is not enough, and versions later than 8 will not work) and tell Gradle to use it, not the default Java version on your system.

In my case (running Ubuntu 18.04), this required installing openjdk-8-jdk (I already had JDK 11 and JRE 8 but not JDK 8).

You have several ways of telling Gradle to use JDK 8 (in all examples, replace the path with the actual path to your JDK installation; the one shown here is valid for Ubuntu 18.04 amd64):

1. Run Gradle with the option

   -Dorg.gradle.java.home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
   

2. Ensure ~/.gradle/gradle.properties contains the line

   org.gradle.java.home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
   

3. In your build.gradle include the following lines:

   compileJava.options.fork = true
   compileJava.options.forkOptions.executable = /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
   

That has helped me get rid of the same error on a different project.