Could not find aapt2-proto.jar

Question

See this link (as I suspected) has the POM file and no jar.

Important Notes:

• I am using latest version of react native ... v0.57.3 and also latest ver

Answer 1

It seems like AAPT2(Android Asset Packaging Tool 2) is available in Google's maven repository.

You need to include google() under repositories in build.gradle file as shown:

buildscript {
  repositories {
      google() // here
      jcenter()
  }
  dependencies {
      classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.2.0-alpha12'
  }
} 
allprojects {
  repositories {
      google() // and here
      jcenter()
}

Take a look at this link for more in detail.

Note: Order also matters, if jcenter() is above google() it fails.