Gradle Build error : com.couchbase.lite:couchbase-lite-android:2.1.0

Question

I am trying to install couchbase-lite on react-native android project. When I add dependency of couchbase-lite as explained in here, it gives me the following error.

What I have tried

1. react-native init MyProject
2. add dependency implementation 'com.couchbase.lite:couchbase-lite-android:2.1.0' to my ./android/app/build.gradle file
3. react-native run-andoid

Then found following error

Could not find method implementation() for arguments [com.couchbase.lite:couchbase-lite-android:2.1.0] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler.

Does anyone have an explanation or solution for this?

Answer 1

Answering my own question,

Issue got fixed after upgrading gradle into v4.10 and gradle wrapper plugin into v3.1.0

./app/build.gradle

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.0'
...
ext {
minSdkVersion = 19
...

./app/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.10-bin.zip

then

react-native run-android