Unable to resolve dependency for '...': Could not resolve project :react-native-navigation

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Issue Description

After carefully following the instructions in https://wix.github.io/react-native-navigation/#/docs/Installing, I am getting these errors after completing step 4 for Android:

ERROR: Unable to resolve dependency for ':app@debug/compileClasspath': Could not resolve project :react-native-navigation.
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Affected Modules: app

ERROR: Unable to resolve dependency for ':app@debugAndroidTest/compileClasspath': Could not resolve project :react-native-navigation.
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Affected Modules: app

ERROR: Unable to resolve dependency for ':app@debugUnitTest/compileClasspath': Could not resolve project :react-native-navigation.
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Affected Modules: app

WARNING: API 'variant.getMergeAssets()' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'variant.getMergeAssetsProvider()'.
It will be removed at the end of 2019.
For more information, see https://d.android.com/r/tools/task-configuration-avoidance.
To determine what is calling variant.getMergeAssets(), use -Pandroid.debug.obsoleteApi=true on the command line to display a stack trace.
Affected Modules: app

What I've tried

• Invalidate Cache/Restart

• Update dependencies in build.gradle file

  dependencies {
    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.4'
    classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.2.0'
  }
  

• Disable experimental feature for Gradle Only sync the active variant, which leads to two more errors:

  ERROR: Unable to resolve dependency for ':app@release/compileClasspath': Could not resolve project :react-native-navigation.
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  Affected Modules: app
  
  
  ERROR: Unable to resolve dependency for ':app@releaseUnitTest/compileClasspath': Could not resolve project :react-native-navigation.
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  Affected Modules: app
  

• Preferences > Appearance & Behavior > System Settings > HTTP Proxy > No Proxy

• Move google() to the top

  buildscript{
    ext {...}
    repositories {
      google()
      mavenLocal()
      ...
    }
    ...
  }
  allprojects {
    repositories {
      google()
      ...
    }
  }
  

• Update the gradle distributionUrl to 5.1.1-all and remove task wrapper

• Remove .gradle, referenced here
  1. Invalidate caches / restart
  2. Shutdown Android Studio
  3. Remove .gradle folder
  4. Restart Android Studio

• Set proxy both http and https in gradle.properties

  systemProp.http.proxyHost=127.0.0.1
  systemProp.https.proxyPort=12345
  org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx1234m
  systemProp.https.proxyHost=127.0.0.1
  systemProp.http.proxyPort=12345
  

• Open an issue on wix/react-native-navigation
• Exit Android Studio, delete *.iml file and .idea directory, and rebuild
• Disable Instant Run

Steps to Reproduce

Step 1

Add the following

# android/settings.gradle

include ':react-native-navigation'
project(':react-native-navigation').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-navigation/lib/android/app/')

Step 2

Make sure you're using the new gradle plugin

# android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.10.1-all.zip

Step 3

Update android/build.gradle

# android/build.gradle

buildscript {
    ext {
        buildToolsVersion = "27.0.3"
        minSdkVersion = 19
        compileSdkVersion = 27
        targetSdkVersion = 26
        supportLibVersion = "28.0.0"
    }
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenLocal()
        mavenCentral()
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.3.0'
    }
}
allprojects {
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
        mavenLocal()
        jcenter()
        maven {
            // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
            url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android"
        }
        maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
    }
}

task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
    gradleVersion = '4.4'
    distributionUrl = distributionUrl.replace("bin", "all")
}

Step 4

Update project dependencies

# android/app/build.gradle

android {
    compileSdkVersion rootProject.ext.compileSdkVersion
    defaultConfig {...}
    compileOptions {
        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    }
    ...
}

dependencies {
    implementation fileTree(dir: "libs", include: ["*.jar"])
    implementation "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:${rootProject.ext.supportLibVersion}"
    implementation "com.facebook.react:react-native:+"  // From node_modules
    implementation project(':react-native-navigation')
}

Sync project as necessary confirming that after step 4 the errors are produced

Environment

• React Native Navigation version: 2.7.0
• React Native version: 0.57.8
• Platform(s) (iOS, Android, or both?): Android
• Android Studio 3.3
• Gradle 4.10.1
• Android Gradle plugin 3.3.0
• Android SDK Build Tools 28.0.3
• macOS Mojave 10.14.2
• Java 8 (brew cask)

Answer 1

Proceeding to follow step 7 has gotten rid of the error

Step 7

Target the React Native version required by your project by specifying the RNN build flavor in android/app/build.gradle

android {
  defaultConfig {
    missingDimensionStrategy "RNN.reactNativeVersion", "reactNative57_5"
  }
}

Answer 2

I spent already 2 weeks trying to configure properly the react-native-navigation v2 so feel free to try my app-skeleton: https://github.com/Cicko/react-native-app-skeleton

which is fully set up and ready for development :)