I’m working on a React Native project, and I’ve been encountering issues while building my Android app. I’ve followed various upgrade steps and adjustments, but I can’t seem to resolve the following error:

Error

When running the command:

npx react-native run-android

I get the following build error:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.



* What went wrong:

A problem occurred configuring root project 'AppBarFrontend'.

> Could not resolve all artifacts for configuration ':classpath'.

   > Could not find com.facebook.react:react-native-gradle-plugin:.

     Required by:

         root project :

   > Could not find org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:.

     Required by:

         root project :

1. Checked my build.gradle file: I have defined the appropriate versions for Gradle, React Native, and Kotlin. Here is my build.gradle file:

buildscript {

    ext {

        buildToolsVersion = "35.0.0"

        minSdkVersion = 24

        compileSdkVersion = 35

        targetSdkVersion = 34

        ndkVersion = "26.1.10909125"

        kotlinVersion = "1.9.24"

    }

    repositories {

        google()

        mavenCentral()

    }

    dependencies {

        classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.0.2")

        classpath("com.facebook.react:react-native-gradle-plugin:0.75.3")

        classpath("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlinVersion")

    }

}



allprojects {

    repositories {

        google()

        mavenCentral()

    }

}

2. Cleaned and reinstalled dependencies:

I ran

./gradlew clean and npm install

but I still get the same error.

3. React Native Version:

I’m using React Native 0.75.3 and have

react-native-community/cli

set to version 14.1.0.

Additional Configuration:

I’m working in a Windows environment using VS Code.

My gradle-wrapper.properties file has the following configuration:

distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.10-all.zip

Why are com.facebook.react:react-native-gradle-plugin and kotlin-gradle-plugin not being found, despite being correctly specified in the build.gradle file? Is it possible that I’m missing a repository configuration or there is a version conflict somewhere?

I’d really appreciate any help or suggestions on how to resolve this issue. Thank you in advance!