React Native: Execution failed for task ':app:transformDexArchiveWithExternalLibsDexMergerForDebug'

Question

I\'ve tried gradlew clean and every other solution available here and on GitHub but the error doesn\'t match and solution doesn\'t work

Error on cmd A

Answer 1

This will fix it cd android && ./gradlew clean

Answer 2

In the file (<your_project_folder>/android/app/build.gradle), amend the code with the following lines:

android {
    ...
   packagingOptions {
       pickFirst '**/libjsc.so'
   }
}

Reference: https://github.com/react-native-community/jsc-android-buildscripts/issues/80

Answer 3

I confronted with this error

Execution failed for task ':app:multiDexListDebug'.

but He wrote in the continuation of my error that

I installed async-storage from two address and when I remove the second

errors have been fixed

"@react-native-async-storage/async-storage": "^1.13.2",

"@react-native-community/async-storage": "^1.12.0", 

Answer 4

At Path android/app/build.gradle

defaultConfig {
multiDexEnabled true //Add this line
}

https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-webview/issues/1344

Answer 5

you probably have to add the multiDexEnabled true property to your android/app/build.gradle file.

defaultConfig {
    multiDexEnabled true

    // (...) more properties
}

The console error gives you a hint to overcome this problem. They show you this very link: https://developer.android.com/studio/build/multidex

you can learn more about the problem there. But this was my solution here in 2020. Peace!

Answer 6

Had to use latest dex version

implementation 'androidx.multidex:multidex:2.0.1'