[🐛] A problem occurred gradlew clean RN project. Problem occurred evaluating project ':@react-native-firebase_analytics'. > It is too late to set namespace

[ssze-vnsny]

Issue

Found something similar in #7801
We are running it on Gitlab CI React Native project for both Android and iOS. It has a parent gitlab-ci and the respective child ones.
Env:

image: reactnativecommunity/react-native-android:latest
Kotlin: 1.8.0
Gradle: gradle-8.2-all.zip
Java: 17

Follow the same setup as Robert Savage from the prior closed issue
android/buil.gradle setting the plugin dependency to not be dynamic so classpath "com.facebook.react:react-native-gradle-plugin:8.2"

Then lastly in my android/app/build.gradle I set this as my dependencies:

dependencies {
implementation 'com.facebook.react:react-native:+'

// Exclude Flipper integration if not used
implementation('com.facebook.react:react-native:+') {
    exclude group: 'com.facebook.flipper'
}

implementation 'com.facebook.soloader:soloader:0.10.1+'

}

in the gitlab-ci added this line below to chg the namespace.

• sed -i "s/namespace project.ext.namespace/namespace 'com.*********app'/" node_modules/@react-native-firebase/analytics/android/build.gradle
  • cd android && ./gradlew clean && cd ..

Describe your issue here
Still a showstopper at this specific location
Build was configured to prefer settings repositories over project repositories but repository 'maven5' was added by plugin 'com.facebook.react'

Configure project :@react-native-firebase_analytics
:@react-native-firebase_analytics package.json found at /builds/.... /node_modules/@react-native-firebase/analytics/package.json

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• Where:
  Build file '/builds/... /node_modules/@react-native-firebase/analytics/android/build.gradle' line: 122
• What went wrong:
  A problem occurred evaluating project ':@react-native-firebase_analytics'.

It is too late to set namespace
It has already been read to configure this project.
Consider either moving this call to be during evaluation,
or using the variant API.

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Project Files

Explained above

Javascript

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package.json:

# N/A

firebase.json for react-native-firebase v6:

# N/A

iOS

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ios/Podfile:

• I'm not using Pods
• I'm using Pods and my Podfile looks like:

# N/A

AppDelegate.m:

// N/A

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Android

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Have you converted to AndroidX?

• my application is an AndroidX application?
• I am using android/gradle.settings jetifier=true for Android compatibility?
• I am using the NPM package jetifier for react-native compatibility?

not sure about above but have it below
gradle.properties
android.enableJetifier=true

android/build.gradle:

// N/A

android/app/build.gradle:

// N/A

android/settings.gradle:

// N/A

MainApplication.java:

// N/A

AndroidManifest.xml:

<!-- N/A -->

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Environment

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react-native info output:

 OUTPUT GOES HERE

• Platform that you're experiencing the issue on:
  • iOS
  • Android
  • iOS but have not tested behavior on Android
  • Android but have not tested behavior on iOS
  • Both
• react-native-firebase version you're using that has this issue:
  • e.g. 5.4.3
• Firebase module(s) you're using that has the issue:
  • e.g. Instance ID
• Are you using TypeScript?
  • Y/N & VERSION

package.json
"@react-native-firebase/analytics": "^21.13.0",
"@react-native-firebase/app": "^21.13.0",

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[MichaelVerdon]

Instead of using 'sed' to set the namespace, try set it in your gradle files instead.

[ssze-vnsny]

Thanks Michael for your response, but I did try. Not sure if all these gradle files has any overlap and causing issues?

[mikehardy]

You've logged a build issue that seems to focus on incompatible versions

You have provided no version information

Those two things don't seem to go together...

[ssze-vnsny]

Thank you Mike for your response. This is a 5 year old mobile app that needs to be migrated from AppCenter (decommed) to GitLab. Is there a version standard btw package.json with all its dependencies ver and script calls, android/build.gradle, android/app/build.gradle seems to inherits the parent ver, gradle.properties seems to be the overlap btw build.gradle and gradle.properties, and the gradle-wrapper.properties seems to be the dist ver ONLY. Plus due to some Gitlab issues with disk space, cache, and token to import libraries from github, I decided to go with the Docker image thats prepackaged. I did run an echo to check all the ver. All 3 AI helps, but it somewhat seems to mislead you into an infinite loop... Im not a DevOps guy, more of a full stack Java guy that is working on this since there is no DevOps in this company.

[ssze-vnsny]

Also does following npx react-native info and gradlew dependencies helps, or it will take me down to a deeper rabbit hole?

[mikehardy]

https://github.com/mikehardy/rnfbdemo/blob/main/make-demo.sh

There are an infinite number of ways to do things wrong so they don't build, and it's an impossible task to fix them all.

So that script above is a demonstrator of how exactly to do it correctly. You can read it, read the comments, run it, and it'll generate a project that builds without taking infinite maintainer time troubleshooting project-specific errors

[ssze-vnsny]

Thank you Mike, will definitely do, cheers!