Build failed with error 'Could not determine the dependencies of task ':react-native-imei:bundleLibCompileToJarDebug'.'

[waleedbhatti]

I have followed the doc to extract device imei. Tried every approach I found on stack overflow but it is still giving me this when i uninstall this library my project builds succesfully. Below is the full log.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong:
  Could not determine the dependencies of task ':react-native-imei:bundleLibCompileToJarDebug'.

Could not create task ':react-native-imei:compileDebugJavaWithJavac'.
In order to compile Java 9+ source, please set compileSdkVersion to 30 or above

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BUILD FAILED in 1m 51s

Here is my build.gradle:

buildscript {
ext {
buildToolsVersion = "33.0.0"
minSdkVersion = 21
compileSdkVersion = 33
targetSdkVersion = 33

    // We use NDK 23 which has both M1 support and is the side-by-side NDK version from AGP.
    ndkVersion = "23.1.7779620"
}
repositories {
    google()
    mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
    classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle")
    classpath("com.facebook.react:react-native-gradle-plugin")
}

}

Let me know if anything else is needed.

[curtisy1]

You will have to patch the library if you want to use it with newer React Native versions. The reason is that RN now requires Java 11, which this plugin's compileSdkVersion (28) does not support.

To fix this, you can add a simple patch and get your root project's version instead

diff --git a/android/build.gradle b/android/build.gradle
index fbf1db98c3cd562cc7c0e601688099d0361c768a..77fec36e5622fb8649d82e4058675cdf401bad9b 100644
--- a/android/build.gradle
+++ b/android/build.gradle
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ repositories {
 apply plugin: 'com.android.library'
 
 android {
-    compileSdkVersion 28
+    compileSdkVersion rootProject.ext.has('compileSdkVersion') ? rootProject.ext.get('compileSdkVersion') : 30
 
     defaultConfig {
         minSdkVersion 16

That being said, this library probably only works on devices < Android 9, so if you can, you should use a different unique ID.

[Parmar-Bansi]

any other solution..??
still same issue

In order to compile Java 9+ source, please set compileSdkVersion to 30 or above

[curtisy1]

What compileSdkVersion did you set in your app's build gradle (not the patch but your actual app)? It needs to be > 30 or this will fail because it simply applies the version of your project