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 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 artifacts for configuration ':classpath'.
   > Could not find aapt2-proto.jar (com.android.tools.build:aapt2-proto:0.3.1).
     Searched in the following locations:
         https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/android/tools/build/aapt2-proto/0.3.1/aapt2-proto-0.3.1.jar

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.