Could not find com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.3.1

Question

I suddenly started getting this error when trying to build. This was all working a few weeks ago with no changes that I know of. The issue seems to be related to react

Answer 1

To solve this problem:

1. Open package.json and edit the react version to:

   "react": "16.0.0-alpha.3", "react-native": "0.43.1",

2. Delete node_modules directory

3. And re-install npm with the command npm install

4. In Addition: If you get a app:compileDebugJava ERROR, run react-native upgrade

(Got the solution from this github page and it worked for me)

Answer 2

For this, try one of the following option:

1. Update your SDK manager > Go to build menu > clean project > then build project

or

2. Right click on project folder > open module setting > libraries > add com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.3.1 > sync the project

3. Click on file menu > open project structure > and file the libraries

Answer 3

This seems to be an issue with react-native itself. There is no official fix for this (yet), however some people have reported upgrading to have solved their problem. You can check more details here

Update 1: Hi @roachman, this is the exact error I got which pointed me to search for above. There is another ticket logged #14225 for same(cannot post link for some reason). I was just able to resolve it by including exact version of react-native version in build.gradle dependencies line compile "com.facebook.react:react-native:0.xx.y" instead of compile 'com.facebook.react:react-native:+' You might want to try that for all projects that use that setting or a more elegant settings suggested in above in issue #14223 by user david50407

Update 2 This is officially fixed now have a look https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/14225#issuecomment-305073392 (had to remove earlier link for issue 14223 as I cannot post more than 2 links)

Answer 4

If you upgraded react-native-fbsdk from 0.5 to 0.6 versions and have this issue then open your android project (pathToYourApp/android) in Android Studio and it automatically offers you to update dependencies. Now It should work fine!

Answer 5

Follow the steps,

1. Add google maven in project gradle (Project: build.gradle),

   allprojects { repositories { jcenter() maven { url "https://maven.google.com" } } }

2. Remove existing gradle cache with below command

   rm -fr ~/.gradle/caches/

3. Have a clean build and run

Answer 6

My case was that this is react-native-fbsdk build.gradle (https://github.com/facebook/react-native-fbsdk/blob/master/android/build.gradle):

apply plugin: 'com.android.library'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 23
    buildToolsVersion "23.0.1"

    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 16
        targetSdkVersion 23
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.1.0'
    compile 'com.facebook.react:react-native:+' // support react-native-v0.22-rc+
    compile('com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:4.+')
}

I am using React Native 0.37, so this is the line that broke for me:

compile('com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:4.+')

Had to change to this for compatibility:

compile('com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:4.18.+')