react native build error: package android.support.annotation does not exist

Question

I had to completely rewrite the question.

I have a react native android app. When I built the apk file with ./gradlew assembleRelease -x bundleReleaseJsAndAssets, it went fine, but after that it stopped compiling at all. Even react-native run-android is not working anymore.

What I found so far: First, the error is this

Task :app:processDebugResources FAILED resource android:attr/fontVariationSettings not found. resource android:attr/ttcIndex not found. 

If I add these lines to gradle.properties,

android.useAndroidX=true android.enableJetifier=true 

the error changes. Now it's this

Task :@JWWon_react-native-universal-pedometer:compileDebugJavaWithJavac FAILED  error: package android.support.annotation does not exist import android.support.annotation.Nullable;                                  ^ cannot find symbol   private void sendPedometerUpdateEvent(@Nullable WritableMap params) {                                          ^   symbol:   class Nullable   location: class BMDPedometerModule 

The problem is not with the library though. If I remove it from the project, it start complaining about another one. To get it to compile, I have to remove 7 libraries. An example:

Task :@react-native-community_netinfo:compileDebugJavaWithJavac FAILED error: package android.support.v4.net does not exist import android.support.v4.net.ConnectivityManagerCompat; error: cannot find symbol     promise.resolve(ConnectivityManagerCompat.isActiveNetworkMetered(getConnectivityManager()));                     ^   symbol:   variable ConnectivityManagerCompat   location: class ConnectivityReceiver 2 errors 

then if I remove another, this happens:

Task :react-native-camera-kit:compileDebugJavaWithJavac FAILED package android.support.annotation does not exist import android.support.annotation.ColorInt;                                  ^ package android.support.annotation does not exist import android.support.annotation.IntRange;                                  ^ ... 92 errors 

So it will compile if I remove 7 libraries from the project. They are:

react-native-camera-kit @react-native-community_netinfo react-native-push-notification react-native-sensors @JWWon_react-native-universal-pedometer react-native-keep-awake react-native-toast-native

Without them, it compiles perfectly. So there's a bigger problem that doesn't let it work. 2 days ago, all of those libraries were working perfectly with no problem. But now something crushes it.

Answer 1

Try with jetifier

npm install --save-dev jetifier
Or use yarn, but install it locally in your project, not globally

npx jetify
or
npx jetify -w=1 - to specify the number of parallel workers

npx react-native run-android

Answer 2

I actually had something very similar happen and running this worked

npx jetify 

When I ran it through the CI pipeline it didn't work and ended having to add

"scripts": {  ...     "postinstall": "jetify" } 

After npm runs install in the pipeline it then run jetify to convert to androidx and covers all the libraries that need to be converted.