Android build failing for React Native

Question

While creating android build with following command ./gradlew assembleRelease

it fails with following error:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
The Android Gradle plugin supports only Kotlin Gradle plugin version 1.3.0 and higher.
The following dependencies do not satisfy the required version:
project ':awesome-project' -> org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.2.71

Same issue if I try to clean android build ./gradlew assembleRelease

Answer 1

You can update your Kotlin version in your project level build.gradle file. If you have it configured the usual way, you should have the following line in it around the top:

ext.kotlin_version = '1.1.2'

To upgrade to the version matching your plugin, simply change this line to:

ext.kotlin_version = '1.1.2-3'