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

I have the same issue. So to make it 'clearer', I did these:

1. Update to sdk27 (compile and target). minSdk is at 21
2. Update related goodle-play base/services/maps to 15.0.1 (Depends on your project requirement)
3. Then: I add multidexEnabled=true in the same section as no (1) above

4. (Optional) - I had another issue where Gradle couldn't find the play-services version properly: I modified the project build.gradle to search the google maven first before the jcenter()

   maven {
       url 'https://maven.google.com/'
       name 'Google'
   }
   mavenLocal()
   jcenter()