Description

Build fails when locking gradle dependencies.

Error Message

> Could not resolve all artifacts for configuration ':app:developmentDebugRuntimeClasspath'.
   > Could not resolve app.notifee:core:+.
     Required by:
         project :app > project :notifee_react-native
      > Failed to list versions for app.notifee:core.
         > Unable to load Maven meta-data from file:/Users/jadjbara/projects/......./node_modules/@notifee/react-native/android/libs/app/notifee/core/maven-metadata.xml.
            > org.xml.sax.SAXNotRecognizedException: Property 'http://javax.xml.XMLConstants/property/accessExternalSchema' is not recognized.

Project Specifics

• react-native version: 0.74.3
• notifee version: 7.8.2

Steps to Reproduce

1. Enable gradle dependencies locking
   You can follow the guide on the official Gradle docs
   Steps are below:
   Add the following to your root android/build.gradle directory.

subprojects {
    configurations.all {
        it.resolutionStrategy.activateDependencyLocking()
    }
}

dependencyLocking {
    lockAllConfigurations()
}

2. Build the app with adding --write-locks to the command for example in our case we are running ./android/gradlew -p ./android androidDependencies --write-locks

R&D

According to Gradle, depending on version 8 will lead to builds failing in case a dependency still uses legacy xml parsers.

How to Bypass the Error

The only way I could actually bypass the error was by disabling dependency locking in the project, which is not ideal since we would like to keep this in our repo.

Any idea how this can be resolved? Thanks!