Task :app:transformNativeLibsWithMergeJniLibsForDebug FAILED

Question

I am working with react native and every time I build a new project it seems to work on my device , but whenever I try to restart it It is giving me 1 or more errors

I have tried looking for solutions on github but none of them are clear I will post the entire error message here.

react-native run-android info Running jetifier to migrate libraries to AndroidX. You can disable it using "--no-jetifier" flag. Jetifier found 855 file(s) to forward-jetify. Using 4 workers... info Starting JS server... info Installing the app... Starting a Gradle Daemon (subsequent builds will be faster)

Task :app:transformNativeLibsWithMergeJniLibsForDebug FAILED

Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 6.0. Use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings. See https://docs.gradle.org/5.4.1/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings 24 actionable tasks: 2 executed, 22 up-to-date

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':app:transformNativeLibsWithMergeJniLibsForDebug'.

  Could not read path 'C:\REACT_NATIVE\AwesomeProject2\android\app\build\intermediates\transforms\mergeJniLibs\debug\0\lib\arm64-v8a'.

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BUILD FAILED in 57s

error Failed to install the app. Make sure you have the Android development environment set up: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started.html#android-development-environment. Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details.Error: Command failed: gradlew.bat app:installDebug -PreactNativeDevServerPort=8081

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':app:transformNativeLibsWithMergeJniLibsForDebug'.

  Could not read path 'C:\REACT_NATIVE\AwesomeProject2\android\app\build\intermediates\transforms\mergeJniLibs\debug\0\lib\arm64-v8a'.

• 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.

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BUILD FAILED in 57s

at checkExecSyncError (child_process.js:623:11)
at execFileSync (child_process.js:641:15)
at runOnAllDevices (C:\REACT_NATIVE\AwesomeProject2\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\build\commands\runAndroid\runOnAllDevices.js:75:39)
at buildAndRun (C:\REACT_NATIVE\AwesomeProject2\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\build\commands\runAndroid\index.js:169:41)
at C:\REACT_NATIVE\AwesomeProject2\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\build\commands\runAndroid\index.js:135:12
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:85:5)
at async Command.handleAction (C:\REACT_NATIVE\AwesomeProject2\node_modules\react-native\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli\build\cliEntry.js:160:7)

Answer 1

Running the cleaning task solved the problem for me. In your project's android dir, run gradle wrapper with 'clean'

cd android && ./gradlew clean 

Then you can go back to project dir and try running again.

cd .. && react-native run-android

Answer 2

go to android/app/build.gradle add the following under android

android {
    ...
+   packagingOptions {
+       pickFirst '**/libjsc.so'
+       pickFirst 'lib/x86/libc++_shared.so'
+       pickFirst 'lib/x86_64/libjsc.so'
+       pickFirst 'lib/arm64-v8a/libjsc.so'
+       pickFirst 'lib/arm64-v8a/libc++_shared.so'
+       pickFirst 'lib/x86_64/libc++_shared.so'
+       pickFirst 'lib/armeabi-v7a/libc++_shared.so'  
+   }
}

Running the cleaning task solved the problem for me. In your project's android dir, run gradle wrapper with 'clean'

cd android && ./gradlew clean

Then you can go back to project dir and try running again.

cd .. && react-native run-android

Answer 3

Clean project working for me

A react-native Project is about one XCode Project and one Android Project. (pure js code no need to do clean)

So what are you need would be

Clean XCode Project with

$ cd ios
$ xcodebuild clean
$ cd .. && react-native run-ios

And then clean Android Project with

$ cd android
$ ./gradlew clean
$ cd .. && react-native run-android

You can simply write a batch file for it.

Answer 4

in my case in react-native app this error was beacause of rn-fetch-blob v0.12.0, and it makes release apk crash too
i do this:

npm uninstall rn-fetch-blob
npm i [email protected]
cd android && gradlew clean
cd..
react-native run-android

hope this help somebody <3

Answer 5

Go to android/app/build.gradle and add the following thing under android:

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

  }
}

Then run it again. If your using react native i suggest you to close npm console and run it again.

Answer 6

AAR libraries were not linking to the Main application from Bridge Project.

Solution:

implementation files(‘libs/sdk-5.0.0.aar’)

Instead of

implementation(name:'sdk-5.0.0', ext:'aar')

I faced another issue related to AAR file import into the android project. https://stackoverflow.com/a/58602329/3197778

Answer 7

go to android/app/build.grad

android { ... + packagingOptions { + pickFirst '**/libjsc.so' + pickFirst 'lib/x86/libc++_shared.so' + pickFirst 'lib/x86_64/libjsc.so' + pickFirst 'lib/arm64-v8a/libjsc.so' + pickFirst 'lib/arm64-v8a/libc++_shared.so' + pickFirst 'lib/x86_64/libc++_shared.so' + pickFirst 'lib/armeabi-v7a/libc++_shared.so'
+ } }