Package not compatible with React Native 0.56 (Android)

[taranda]

This package will not compile with React Native 0.56. The following error occurs when running react-native run android:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred configuring project ':app'.
> Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':app:_debugApk'.
   > A problem occurred configuring project ':react-native-touch-id'.
      > The SDK Build Tools revision (23.0.1) is too low for project ':react-native-touch-id'. Minimum required is 25.0.0

Due to Google's mandate that all new apps must target API 26 in order to be published on Google Play after 1 August 2018, React Native updated its build tools and target API. This is causing many React Native packages to break.

Here are a couple of solutions proposed in other packages:

• PR for react-native-config
• PR for react-native-splash-screen
• build.gradle for react-native-device-info

[zibs]

Nice, @taranda thanks for the heads up! Do you want to make a PR for this? Otherwise I can get to it later this week

[taranda]

I would, but I am not an Android developer. I can copy one of the other PRs but I would not be confident in testing them. As long as you give it a thorough review, I can submit it.

[ErrorPro]

@taranda Please try to make a PR.

[ErrorPro]

Ok, TMP fixed would be:

1. use "react-native-touch-id": "git+https://git@github.com/ErrorPro/react-native-touch-id.git#f2eac983cae871849fe3289487cbf65106ae685c", as dependency(until the PR above is merged) or your own copy.
2. in your app/android/build.gradle add this

subprojects { subproject ->
    afterEvaluate{
        if((subproject.name == 'react-native-touch-id')) {
            android {
                compileSdkVersion rootProject.ext.compileSdkVersion
                buildToolsVersion rootProject.ext.buildToolsVersion
            }
        }
    }
}

This fixed my production build & local dev build.

[taranda]

@ErrorPro: PR #140 should fix this.

In my case I did not need to change with my build.gradle. A fork with PR #140 is all I needed.

[yosef-abraham]

Hey guys any plan to release a new version with this fix?
Thanks.

[mkhazov]

This can be fixed by specifying compileSdkVersion in your project's build.gradle: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25736483/1300562

[andreialecu]

#140 was finally merged and this has been fixed looks like.

[zibs]

4.0.5 is out - I'm going to close this if it's fixed! I'll re-open if it's not.

[andreialecu]

I can confirm that it is fixed for me.