Android build intermittently fails

[rborn]

I have the case where the build fails for android and I need to rebuild again without any change in the code. Sometimes however the only way to make it work is to clear the .gradle folders in the project and the global one

The errors are:

> Task :@segment_analytics-react-native-amplitude:compileDebugKotlin FAILED

and

> Task :@segment_analytics-react-native:compileDebugKotlin w: Argfile not found: /Work/clients/current/emjoy/app/letsemjoyapp/segment_analytics-react-native_debug

Any ideas?
I tried all the ideas/workarounds found in issues but it wouldn't fix anything.
Thank you 🤗

[rborn]

A similar error happened here matei-radu/react-native-in-app-browser#72 and it seems to be an issue with AndroidX.

I run npx jetify as a postinstall script, so maybe somehow the module gets confused by this?
I also see there is PR for this that's not merged: segmentio/analytics-android#618

Thank you.

[rborn]

And another error, same behaviour

* What went wrong:
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Execution failed for task ':@segment_analytics-react-native-amplitude:transformClassesAndResourcesWithSyncLibJarsForDebug'.
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[bsneed]

The PR isn't merged because the author didn't go back to get the CI working. AndroidX support is on our short-term roadmap, but I don't have an exact date yet. I'm not sure if jetify is confusing things, entirely possible.

[rborn]

@bsneed could you please point me to that PR, I'd rather have a forked/patched module than having to baby sit the build twice a day or worse, not to be able to make a release without cleaning all the caches in the world and build few times in a row 😅
Thank you 😻

[bsneed]

@rborn the PR I was referring to was the one you linked above: segmentio/analytics-android#618. I do have a PR in progress over in #157, which you may find useful.