Error: Could not find org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.3.60-eap-25 in Ionic 3

Question

I am getting the following error suddenly while building Ionic 3 app for Android.

Could not find org.jetbrains.kotlin:ko         


        

Answer 1

In my case I had the same error first, then a whole bunch of other packages (org.ow2.asm:asm-analysis:4.0@jar, etc...) that could also not be resolved.

The problem was that I upgraded Gradle to v5 (to be able to support the new version of Crashlytic). Doing so, I upgraded the repository to Google(), and deleted the old maven { url ... } entries.

But I also deleted jcenter(), which was still required for a lot of nodes.

Now my repository section looks like this:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        maven { url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android" }
        google() // Google Maven repository
        jcenter()
    }
    //...

So if someone else is reading this but was not happy with the current accepted solution of downgrading Gradle, check if you have jcenter().

Ps.: I realize this is an old issue but I recently found it while searching on google.