This document is a work in progress, I'm documenting the errors and pitfalls of developing in react native under Ubuntu. This is documented in the hope that someone finds this useful or if I need to refer to this again at some point in the future.
I am by no means an expert in this, I'm documenting what I have encountered and what had worked for me. I only advise that you can try these out at your own risk, as I cannot accept any responsibility.
Solution :
From your project directory navigate to the directory "android/gradle/wrapper" and edit the file gradle-wrapper.properties and update the distributionUrl to the following :
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.3-rc-2-all.zip
Solution : From your project directory navigate to the android directory and edit the file local.properties (create it if it isn't there)
sudo nano local.properties
then enter the following line and replace <username> with your username
sdk.dir = /home/<username>/Android/Sdk
I am by no means an expert in this, I'm documenting what I have encountered and what had worked for me. I only advise that you can try these out at your own risk, as I cannot accept any responsibility.
Issue: Could not determine java version from '9.0.1'.
Solution :
From your project directory navigate to the directory "android/gradle/wrapper" and edit the file gradle-wrapper.properties and update the distributionUrl to the following :
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.3-rc-2-all.zip
Issue: Sdk location not found
Solution : From your project directory navigate to the android directory and edit the file local.properties (create it if it isn't there)
sudo nano local.properties
then enter the following line and replace <username> with your username
sdk.dir = /home/<username>/Android/Sdk
Issue : Failed to notify project evaluation listener. javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlSchema
Solution : Downgrade from Java 9 to Java 8
sudo apt-get remove oracle-java9-installer
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
if it comes back with an error for oracle-java7-installer then run the following command:
sudo dpkg -P oracle-java7-installer
sudo apt-get -f install
Issue : ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: /usr/lib/jvm/java-9-oracle
Solution :
find the java location using
readlink -f $(which java)
copy the path without the bin/java at the end and run this command and paste the path
export JAVA_HOME="<path>"
Issue: The SDK Build Tools revision (23.0.1) is too low for project ':app'. Minimum required is 25.0.0
Solution :
from your project file goto android directory and edit build.gradle file and insert the following :
subprojects { subproject ->
afterEvaluate{
if((subproject.plugins.hasPlugin('android') || subproject.plugins.hasPlugin('android-library'))) {
android {
compileSdkVersion 25
buildToolsVersion "25.0.1"
}
}
}
}Issue: /bin/sh: 1: adb: not found
Solution :
Update your path to point to your platform tools
Issue: Double Tap R to reload - How?
Soution : I used CTRL + M, and menu shade will be displayed where you can choose to reload.
