Can't build on android

[compojoom]

When I try to build our project with detox I get:

> Task :detox:compileMinReactNative46DebugJavaWithJavac
Note: /Users/xx/source/node_modules/detox/android/detox/src/main/java/com/wix/detox/espresso/MultiTap.java uses or overrides a deprecated API.
Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations.
Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.

/Users/xx/.gradle/caches/transforms-1/files-1.1/appcompat-v7-27.1.1.aar/b220051e8a42e6ce32a8ea873ddc20ea/res/values-v26/values-v26.xml:9:5-12:13: AAPT: error: resource android:attr/colorError not found.

/Users/xx/.gradle/caches/transforms-1/files-1.1/appcompat-v7-27.1.1.aar/b220051e8a42e6ce32a8ea873ddc20ea/res/values-v26/values-v26.xml:13:5-16:13: AAPT: error: resource android:attr/colorError not found.

/Users/xx/.gradle/caches/transforms-1/files-1.1/appcompat-v7-27.1.1.aar/b220051e8a42e6ce32a8ea873ddc20ea/res/values-v26/values-v26.xml:17:5-93: AAPT: error: style attribute 'android:attr/keyboardNavigationCluster' not found.

/Users/xx/.gradle/caches/transforms-1/files-1.1/appcompat-v7-27.1.1.aar/b220051e8a42e6ce32a8ea873ddc20ea/res/values/values.xml:251:5-69: AAPT: error: resource android:attr/fontStyle not found.

/Users/xx/.gradle/caches/transforms-1/files-1.1/appcompat-v7-27.1.1.aar/b220051e8a42e6ce32a8ea873ddc20ea/res/values/values.xml:251:5-69: AAPT: error: resource android:attr/font not found.

/Users/xx/.gradle/caches/transforms-1/files-1.1/appcompat-v7-27.1.1.aar/b220051e8a42e6ce32a8ea873ddc20ea/res/values/values.xml:251:5-69: AAPT: error: resource android:attr/fontWeight not found.

error: failed linking references.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':react-native-camera-kit:processDebugAndroidTestResources'.

detox build works fine on ios. I also can build debug and production versions of our app with android studio, but as explained it fails when I do detox build for android.

Build used to work for us with detox 7.3 (but we couldn't run the tests, so I decided to give it a try again.)

• Detox: "^9.0.2",
• React Native: "0.57.1",
• Node: 8.11.4
• Device: android emulator
• Xcode: 10
• macOS: high sierra

[abrel]

You should be able to fix this by adding the following lines in your android/build.gradle file

subprojects {
    afterEvaluate {project ->
        if (project.hasProperty("android")) {
            android {
                compileSdkVersion 27
                buildToolsVersion '27.0.3'
            }
        }
    }
}

[johnzim]

We ended up having to push all the way to 28 in our build.gradle (don't forget to also update appcompatibility in app/build.gradle:

subprojects {
    afterEvaluate {project ->
        if (project.hasProperty("android")) {
            android {
                compileSdkVersion 28
                buildToolsVersion '28.0.0'
            }
        }
    }
}

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