react-native-video: Build fails with react native 0.65 (android only)

Bug

Android build fails when using react-native-video with react native 0.65.

Platform

Which player are you experiencing the problem on:

  • Android ExoPlayer (I guess that’s the default?)

Environment info

React native info output:

info Fetching system and libraries information...
System:
    OS: macOS 11.5.2
    CPU: (12) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-8950HK CPU @ 2.90GHz
    Memory: 33.53 MB / 32.00 GB
    Shell: 5.8 - /bin/zsh
  Binaries:
    Node: 16.4.0 - /var/folders/r4/pdxxhfbj3cqg_0n5th1p2t400000gn/T/yarn--1629982469013-0.5589450802855631/node
    Yarn: 1.22.11 - /var/folders/r4/pdxxhfbj3cqg_0n5th1p2t400000gn/T/yarn--1629982469013-0.5589450802855631/yarn
    npm: 7.18.1 - /usr/local/bin/npm
    Watchman: 2021.08.02.00 - /usr/local/bin/watchman
  Managers:
    CocoaPods: 1.10.2 - /Users/jafar/.rbenv/shims/pod
  SDKs:
    iOS SDK:
      Platforms: DriverKit 21.0, iOS 15.0, macOS 12.0, tvOS 15.0, watchOS 8.0
    Android SDK: Not Found
  IDEs:
    Android Studio: 2020.3 AI-203.7717.56.2031.7621141
    Xcode: 13.0/13A5212g - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
  Languages:
    Java: 12.0.2 - /usr/bin/javac
  npmPackages:
    @react-native-community/cli: Not Found
    react: 17.0.2 => 17.0.2
    react-native: 0.65.1 => 0.65.1
    react-native-macos: Not Found
  npmGlobalPackages:
    *react-native*: Not Found
✨  Done in 2.86s.

Library version: 5.1.1

Steps To Reproduce

  1. npx react-native init TestRNVideo
  2. yarn install react-native-video
  3. yarn android
$ yarn android
yarn run v1.22.11
$ react-native run-android
info Running jetifier to migrate libraries to AndroidX. You can disable it using "--no-jetifier" flag.
Jetifier found 898 file(s) to forward-jetify. Using 12 workers...
info JS server already running.
* daemon not running; starting now at tcp:5037
* daemon started successfully
info Launching emulator...
info Successfully launched emulator.
info Installing the app...
Starting a Gradle Daemon, 1 incompatible Daemon could not be reused, use --status for details
> Task :app:mergeDebugAssets FAILED
8 actionable tasks: 8 executed

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:mergeDebugAssets'.
> Could not resolve all files for configuration ':app:debugRuntimeClasspath'.
   > Could not find com.yqritc:android-scalablevideoview:1.0.4.
     Searched in the following locations:
       - https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/yqritc/android-scalablevideoview/1.0.4/android-scalablevideoview-1.0.4.pom
       - file:/[...]/.m2/repository/com/yqritc/android-scalablevideoview/1.0.4/android-scalablevideoview-1.0.4.pom
       - file:/[...]/test/TestRNVideo/node_modules/react-native/android/com/yqritc/android-scalablevideoview/1.0.4/android-scalablevideoview-1.0.4.pom
       - file:/[...]/test/TestRNVideo/node_modules/jsc-android/dist/com/yqritc/android-scalablevideoview/1.0.4/android-scalablevideoview-1.0.4.pom
       - https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/yqritc/android-scalablevideoview/1.0.4/android-scalablevideoview-1.0.4.pom
       - https://www.jitpack.io/com/yqritc/android-scalablevideoview/1.0.4/android-scalablevideoview-1.0.4.pom
     Required by:
         project :app > project :react-native-video

* Try:
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* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 14s

error Failed to install the app. Make sure you have the Android development environment set up: https://reactnative.dev/docs/environment-setup.
Error: Command failed: ./gradlew app:installDebug -PreactNativeDevServerPort=8081

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:mergeDebugAssets'.
> Could not resolve all files for configuration ':app:debugRuntimeClasspath'.
   > Could not find com.yqritc:android-scalablevideoview:1.0.4.
     Searched in the following locations:
       - https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/yqritc/android-scalablevideoview/1.0.4/android-scalablevideoview-1.0.4.pom
       - file:/[...]/.m2/repository/com/yqritc/android-scalablevideoview/1.0.4/android-scalablevideoview-1.0.4.pom
       - file:/[...]/test/TestRNVideo/node_modules/react-native/android/com/yqritc/android-scalablevideoview/1.0.4/android-scalablevideoview-1.0.4.pom
       - file:/[...]/test/TestRNVideo/node_modules/jsc-android/dist/com/yqritc/android-scalablevideoview/1.0.4/android-scalablevideoview-1.0.4.pom
       - https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/yqritc/android-scalablevideoview/1.0.4/android-scalablevideoview-1.0.4.pom
       - https://www.jitpack.io/com/yqritc/android-scalablevideoview/1.0.4/android-scalablevideoview-1.0.4.pom
     Required by:
         project :app > project :react-native-video

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 14s

    at makeError (/[...]/test/TestRNVideo/node_modules/execa/index.js:174:9)
    at /[...]/test/TestRNVideo/node_modules/execa/index.js:278:16
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
    at async runOnAllDevices (/[...]/test/TestRNVideo/node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-android/build/commands/runAndroid/runOnAllDevices.js:106:5)
    at async Command.handleAction (/[...]/test/TestRNVideo/node_modules/@react-native-community/cli/build/index.js:186:9)
info Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details.
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.

Expected behaviour

  1. It builds without error.

About this issue

  • Original URL
  • State: closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Reactions: 9
  • Comments: 25 (1 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I would advice to define the package so other dependencies are not fetched/taken from jCenter anymore. Because jCenter does not allow any updates anymore of any package all other packages should be taken from mavenCentral for example.

You can add jcenter to android/build.gradle like this:

allprojects {
    repositories {
        .... # Keep the rest
        jcenter() {
            content {
                includeModule("com.yqritc", "android-scalablevideoview")
            }
        }
    }
}

Hopefully somebody updates android-scalablevideoview to use another repository

+74
wbroek on Sep 6, 2021

jcenter() was removed in favor of mavenCentral() in 0.65, add it back to allprojects.repositories and it’ll magically work again.

+25
wouterds on Sep 2, 2021

Adding jcenter() is not a working solution anymore

+7
GregVes on Jan 13, 2022

cd android ./gradlew clean and than : ` allprojects { repositories { … # Keep the rest jcenter() { content { includeModule(“com.yqritc”, “android-scalablevideoview”) } } } }

`

+3
milad755 on Nov 7, 2021

If you are like me and cannot wait for a working release. I patched the react-native-video@5.2.0 like this:

  1. Applying the changes which should come with v5.2.1: https://github.com/react-native-video/react-native-video/commit/63f12eaed666ebddf9a506889bf99232c2ea6c20

  2. Applying changes from @MatrixFrog: https://github.com/yqritc/Android-ScalableVideoView/issues/52#issuecomment-1013824489 https://www.jitpack.io/#MatrixFrog/Android-ScalableVideoView/v1.0.4-jitpack

For the patch to work what you need to do is:

  • Go to your project’s node_modules and find react-native-video
  • Go into android-exoplayer/gradle.build and apply the changes from point 1
  • Go into android/gradle.build and apply changes from point 2
  • Run npx patch-package react-native-video (this will create a patch)

Now it should work until they release a new stable working version, which I also hope will be soon…

Cheers!

+2
Bekaxp on Feb 24, 2022

Hmm weird, worked for me just adding jcenter back

+2
wouterds on Sep 2, 2021

I was able to use react-native-video 5.2.0 without using jcenter by switching to the Android ExoPlayer. android-scalablevideoview is only used by the Android MediaPlayer which is being removed in version 6.x of react-native-video anyway.

  1. Add the following lines to settings.gradle to use the ExoPlayer instead of the MediaPlayer:
include ':react-native-video'
project(':react-native-video').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-video/android-exoplayer')
  1. Once I switched to the ExoPlayer, I got errors from react-native-video/android-exoplayer/build.gradle about com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer:2.13.2 and com.google.android.exoplayer:extension-okhttp:2.13.2 not being available. I made a patch to change both versions to 2.13.3, and my app built successfully after that.
+1
arsimr16 on Jul 22, 2022

https://github.com/yqritc/Android-ScalableVideoView/issues/52#issuecomment-1013824489

+1
jherencia on Jan 17, 2022

You can add jcenter to android/build.gradle like this:

jcenter() //add this line

+1
Shihaburabbi on Nov 22, 2021
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