Could not find aapt2-proto.jar
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 version of react-native-cli ... v2.0.1 at this time. I have Java 11 installed in my computer. I am using latest gradle release at this time ... v4.10.2 I am using Mac OSX Mojave The distribution url is: distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.10.2-all.zip Here is the error FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * What went wrong: A problem occurred configuring root project 'AwesomePlacesApp'. > Could not resolve all