error: package com.android.annotations does not exist

Question

I have the following class

import com.android.annotations.NonNullByDefault;

@NonNullByDefault
public final class Log {
    ...
}

and here

Answer 1

To automatically fix all android to androidx issues for React Native (prerequisite npx)

Add the following two flags to true in your gradle.properties file at ProjectFolder/android/gradle.properties

android.useAndroidX=true
android.enableJetifier=true

Execute

npm install --save-dev jetifier
npx jetify
npx react-native run-android

In your package.json add the following to scripts

  "postinstall" : "npx jetify"

More info at https://github.com/mikehardy/jetifier

Update: This is now in-built in react-native 0.60. If you migrate to react-native 0.60 you won't need this step. - https://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/2019/07/03/version-60#androidx-support

Answer 2

Open gradle.properties and use following code:

android.useAndroidX=false
android.enableJetifier=false

or U can use these dependencies too:

implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.0.2'
 implementation 'androidx.annotation:annotation:1.0.2'

Answer 3

You can find here the official javadoc of the support-annotationslibrary.

Error:(3, 31) error: package com.android.annotations does not exist

As you can see all the classes are in the same package android.support.annotation and not com.android.annotations.

Error:(7, 2) error: cannot find symbol class NonNullByDefault

Also the class NonNullByDefault doesn't exist in that package.

Answer 4

Annotations come from the support's library which are packaged in android.support.annotation.

As another option you can use @NonNull annotation which denotes that a parameter, field or method return value can never be null.
It is imported from import android.support.annotation.NonNull;

Answer 5

All you need to do is to replace 'import android.support.annotation.Nullable' in class imports to 'import androidx.annotation.Nullable;'

Thats a common practice..whenever any import giving issue...remove that import and simply press Alt+Enter on the related class..that will give you option to 'import class'..hint Enter and things will get resolved...

Answer 6

For me it was an old version of npm.

Run npm install npm@latest -g and then npm install