React Native: "A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade"

Question

I created a new react native project and ran react-native run-android.

However, I am getting this error:

A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade

Here's the screenshot:

Here's my android/build.gradle:

 // Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.

buildscript {
    ext {
        buildToolsVersion = "29.0.2"
        minSdkVersion = 16
        compileSdkVersion = 29
        targetSdkVersion = 29
    }
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.5.3")
        // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
        // in the individual module build.gradle files
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        mavenLocal()
        maven {
            // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
            url("$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android")
        }
        maven {
            // Android JSC is installed from npm
            url("$rootDir/../node_modules/jsc-android/dist")
        }

        google()
        jcenter()
        maven { url 'https://www.jitpack.io' }
    }
}

I am new with react native and this is a new project so any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

Solution-1: The problem was resolved by deleting and re-creating the AVD (Android Virtual Device) file. The AVD can be deleted from Android Studio. It is usually saved at C:\Users\<userName>\.android\avd

Most likely, you also need to execute the following commands.

cd <project_filder> 
cd android
gradlew clean

In case you did not notice the comments on the question (above), please check them out. They include more suggestions, which might be relevant to the problem.

1st Update:

Solution-2: In some other instance, in addition to deleting and re-creating the AVD, I had to do the following steps.

REM 1. Removing cache files
rd %localappdata%\Temp\metro-cache /s /q 
del %localappdata%\Temp\haste-map*

REM 2. Cleaning Gradle files
cd <project_filder> 
cd android & gradlew clean & cd .. 

REM 3. Deleting node_modules
rd node_modules /q /s 

REM 4. Cleaning npm cache
npm cache clean --force 

REM 5. Re-installing npm modules
npm install

2nd Update:

Solution-3: In a 3rd instance, I had to add the following line in the file <proj-folder>/android/gradle.properties

org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4608m