React Native: Execution failed for task ':app:transformDexArchiveWithExternalLibsDexMergerForDebug'

Question

I\'ve tried gradlew clean and every other solution available here and on GitHub but the error doesn\'t match and solution doesn\'t work

Error on cmd A

Answer 1

As an update to this answer (if people can't figure out why, especially one Mac)

use sudo! I was trying to figure out why gradlew commands were not running for ages, turns out - it didnt have permission!

Use:

sudo ./gradlew [command]

I'm so frustrated and happy at the same time.