"Could not get unknown property 'mergeResourcesProvider' for object of type com.android.build.gradle.internal.api.ApplicationVariantImpl."

Question

{
  "name": "RNNProject",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "private": true,
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node node_modules/react-native/local-cli/cli.js start",
    "test": "jest"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "react": "16.8.3",
    "react-native": "0.59.1",
    "react-native-navigation": "^2.15.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@babel/core": "7.4.0",
    "@babel/runtime": "7.4.2",
    "babel-jest": "24.5.0",
    "jest": "24.5.0",
    "metro-react-native-babel-preset": "0.53.1",
    "react-test-renderer": "16.8.3"
  },
  "jest": {
    "preset": "react-native"
  }
}

graddle-wrapper.properties
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.4-all.zip

Build Graddle
 dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.1' }

Answer 1

I resolved this issue by doing the following steps:

1. in android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties change distributionUrl value to distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.10.1-all.zip.
2. in android/build.gradle change classpath to 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.3.0'.
3. *Optional (if using Metro) create metro.config.js in your project directory and put this code into it .
4. *Optional (if using Metro) And make sure version of metro in package.json "metro-react-native-babel-preset": "0.51.0" is right in your packge.json file.
5. remove node_modules folder and run yarn install.