compatibility issue with newer react-native versions

[Maders]

Bug description:

I used the version 2.0.0 with clean install bare-minimum template of expo with react-native 0.71.3, and I got Gradle build error related to in-compatibility between kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.4.32 (was used in vpnLib) and com.android.tools.build:gradle.

The default com.android.tools.build:gradle dependencies in android/gradle.build for expo project:

dependencies {
        classpath('com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.1')
        classpath('com.facebook.react:react-native-gradle-plugin')
    }

The build error logs:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
The Android Gradle plugin supports only Kotlin Gradle plugin version 1.5.20 and higher.
The following dependencies do not satisfy the required version:
project ':vpnLib' -> org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.4.32

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./gradlew --version output:

------------------------------------------------------------
Gradle 7.5.1
------------------------------------------------------------

Build time:   2022-08-05 21:17:56 UTC
Revision:     d1daa0cbf1a0103000b71484e1dbfe096e095918

Kotlin:       1.6.21
Groovy:       3.0.10
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.11 compiled on July 10 2021
JVM:          11.0.18 (Azul Systems, Inc. 11.0.18+10-LTS)
OS:           Mac OS X 13.2.1 aarch64

To Reproduce:

1. initiate a clean and latest expo/react-native project
2. install react-native-simple-openvpn
3. try to build android

Expected behavior:

Screenshots/Videos:

Environment:

• OS: macOS
• OS version: 13.2.1
• react-native version: 0.71.3
• react-native-simple-openvpn version: ^2.0.0

[ccnnde]

Thank you

[ccnnde]

@Maders Hello, I'm not sure if you are available. I would like to ask you a question, how do you use this module in expo? Recently, many people want to use it in expo, but it fails to run.

[LynxSumit]

Hey @Maders Can you share how did you use this package in expo , what did you do to run application (Development Build or something else )....