Force Gradle to use HTTP instead of HTTPS

Question

I am trying to build react-native android app, as a dependecy I see I have gradle, but it fails to load on build. Error message:

* What went wrong:
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Answer 1

I had same problem and fixed it.

gradle is forced to get dependencies from jcenter through https proxy.

if you add

maven { url "http://jcenter.bintray.com" }

in your repositories instead of jcenter(), gradle sees this repository as a simple maven repository with http proxy.

your project build.gradle should be like below:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        maven { url "http://jcenter.bintray.com" }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.3.1'
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        maven { url "http://jcenter.bintray.com" }
    }
}