Resource linking fails on lStar

Question

I'm working on a React Native application. My Android builds began to fail in the CI environment (and locally) without any changes.

Execution failed for task ':app:processDevelopmentDebugResources'.

> A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade
   > Android resource linking failed
.../app/build/intermediates/incremental/mergeDevelopmentDebugResources/merged.dir/values/values.xml:2682: AAPT: error: resource android:attr/lStar not found.

According to Android: Resource linking fails on test execution even when nothing has been changed, this happened because some library got upgraded.

lStar needs compileSdkVersion 31 and my project used compileSdkVersion 28.

How can I track which libraries got updated recently, or which library is causing this?

Answer 1

The problem is @react-native-community/netinfo. Just try to update the package using

yarn add @react-native-community/netinfo

or

npm update @react-native-community/netinfo

There isn't any need to change anything over your Gradle or Android files as those might mess things up even more.

Answer 2

Go to android/build.gradle and add androidXCore = "1.6.0" to ext:

ext {
    buildToolsVersion = "29.0.2"
    minSdkVersion = 21
    compileSdkVersion = 29
    targetSdkVersion = 29
    googlePlayServicesAuthVersion = "16.0.1"
    androidXCore = "1.6.0"
}