I am having a difficulty with first time react-native run-android. The Error looks like this following

Question

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

What went wrong: A problem occurred

configuring project \':app\'.

Answer 1

If anyone else having the same problem with the above fix not working - then try installing JDK 1.8 instead of JDK 1.9 and set the JAVA_HOME environment variables. This fixed it for me.