Android: Release build fails with React Native 0.72.6

[andreirat]

Environment

Android
react-native: 0.72.6
react-native-vector-icons: ^10.0.1

Description

While building the app in AppCenter, the build fails with the following message:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong:
  A problem was found with the configuration of task ':app:lintAnalyzeRelease' (type 'AndroidLintAnalysisTask').

  • Gradle detected a problem with the following location: '/Users/runner/work/1/s/android/app/build/intermediates/ReactNativeVectorIcons'.

    Reason: Task ':app:lintAnalyzeRelease' uses this output of task ':app:copyReactNativeVectorIconFonts' without declaring an explicit or implicit dependency. This can lead to incorrect results being produced, depending on what order the tasks are executed.

    Possible solutions:

    1. Declare task ':app:copyReactNativeVectorIconFonts' as an input of ':app:lintAnalyzeRelease'.
    2. Declare an explicit dependency on ':app:copyReactNativeVectorIconFonts' from ':app:lintAnalyzeRelease' using Task#dependsOn.
    3. Declare an explicit dependency on ':app:copyReactNativeVectorIconFonts' from ':app:lintAnalyzeRelease' using Task#mustRunAfter.

    Please refer to https://docs.gradle.org/8.0.1/***guide/validation_problems.html#implicit_dependency for more details about this problem.

• Try:

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BUILD FAILED in 23m 57s

Any idea why is this happening?

[mgvictor7]

I found this possible solution on https://stackoverflow.com/a/76658738

[beary]

Thanks for @VincentSastra providing the solution here: #1508 (comment)

And I created a post-install script to automate this, here is my code

/* package.json */
...
  "scripts": {
    "android": "react-native run-android",
    "ios": "react-native run-ios",
    "lint": "eslint .",
    "start": "react-native start",
    "test": "jest",
+   "postinstall": "node scripts/react-native-vector-icons.mjs"
  },
...

/* scripts/react-native-vector-icons.mjs */

import { readFileSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs'
import { resolve } from 'node:path'

const fontGradlePath = resolve('node_modules/react-native-vector-icons/fonts.gradle')
const fontGradle = readFileSync(fontGradlePath, { encoding: 'utf-8' })

const appendTask = `
def lintAnalyzeTask = tasks.findByName("lintAnalyze\${targetName}")
lintAnalyzeTask?.dependsOn(fontCopyTask)
`
const dependsOnStr = '.dependsOn(fontCopyTask)'
const firstLine = appendTask.split('\n').filter((it) => it)[0]

if (!fontGradle.includes(firstLine)) {
  const insertPosition =
    fontGradle.lastIndexOf(dependsOnStr) + dependsOnStr.length
  const newfontGradle = [
    fontGradle.slice(0, insertPosition),
    appendTask,
    fontGradle.slice(insertPosition)
  ].join('\n')
  writeFileSync(fontGradlePath, newfontGradle, { encoding: 'utf-8' })
}

[johnf]

I suspect this is related to #1534

I'd like to put this to bed once and for all, but I'm not experiencing this my project using RNVI on android.

Is someone able to provide a reproducible example repository?

[mauricioalexandres]

Do you found any solution?

[johnf]

Closing as this should be fixed in the latest release