React Native Android Development - Execution failed for task ':app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac' on Windows Webstorm

Question

I have an issue with installing and running the React-Native Android guide to create AwesomeProject . I am using a Windows 10 environment with Webstorm as my IDE. When ever I run the following command, the emulator fails to launch:

react-native run-android

Here is a screen cap of the Web Storm:

I have all the SDK and JDK configured in my System Environments, this is why I don't the error. Here are the additional steps I took configuring Gradle plugin:

I have googled the issue but the solutions I found were for MacOS users and didn't translate for Windows.

Has anyone come across this issue on Windows and fixed it?

Answer 1

I fixed the issue by installing JDK 8 as listed in the React Native guide. Then updated both the Environment Variables and the gradle.properties file.

I ONLY GOT IT TO WORK IN ANDROID STUDIO

This seems to have worked for me. But now I got a new error to fix, which basically is that application isn't detecting a device or emulation.

However, to get around that, I have to ensure that I open the AVD Manager and run one of the configured virtual devices prior to executing the command npx react-native run-android .

This does annoy me having to perform that task first. If anyone knows how to get it to automatically run a default virtual device, that would be nice.