Android gradle build fails

[robinshin]

When running > ./gradlew bundleRelease, I have this error:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Could not determine the dependencies of task ':react-native-user-identity:bundleLibRuntimeToJarRelease'.
> Could not create task ':react-native-user-identity:compileReleaseJavaWithJavac'.
   > In order to compile Java 9+ source, please set compileSdkVersion to 30 or above

It happens since react-native 0.72.0 and is due to:

.android/build.gradle:

android {
    compileSdkVersion 28
    ...
}

Possible fix: replace this by

def safeExtGet(prop, fallback) {
    rootProject.ext.has(prop) ? rootProject.ext.get(prop) : fallback
}
...
compileSdkVersion safeExtGet('compileSdkVersion', 28)

[robinshin]

@juliandramirez

[robinshin]

Any news please? I always have to manually do the update in order to build on Android

@juliandramirez

[dualism98]

Same problem

[Puetz]

Same here, please fix this. I really like the package and would love to continue using it.

[dualism98]

@Puetz, hey. I made this patch to resolve this problem. But, of course, I hope @juliandramirez will make his own fix
react-native-user-identity+1.5.2.patch