expo-modules-core inconsistent compatibility 'compileJava' (11) and 'compileKotlin' (17)

Question

I'm doing update of Expo from 48 to 49.0.23 (includes update of React Native from 0.71.8 to 0.72.10).

iOS works fine.

Android ./gradlew build gets error that I cannot bypass:

Execution failed for task ':expo-modules-core$android-annotation:compileKotlin'.
> Inconsistent JVM-target compatibility detected for tasks 'compileJava' (11) and 'compileKotlin' (17).

My build.gradle has:

buildscript {
    ext {
        buildToolsVersion = "33.0.0"
        minSdkVersion = 21
        compileSdkVersion = 33
        targetSdkVersion = 33
        ndkVersion = "23.1.7779620"
        kotlin_version = '1.8.0'
    }
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle'
        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
        classpath("com.facebook.react:react-native-gradle-plugin")
    }
}

app/build.gradle:

    compileOptions {
        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_11
        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_11
    }

gradle-wrapper.properties:

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.2-all.zip

I did update of gradle related files according react-native-community update helper. I don't set any specific version of Kotlin in my project (but I also tried enforcing kotlinOptions - didn't work as well).

What am I missing? What could be the reason of Expo package Java versions inconsistency?

Answer 1

I ended up by updating Expo to version 51.0.31 and react-native to version 0.74.5. Issue with Java and Kotlin version was reproducible only on Expo 49 for me (Expo 50 was also working fine).