Why am I getting this error in react native? - react-native

Question

I am new to react native. When I run react-native run-android I get this error.
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* Where:
Build file 'D:\Stay Hungry\app developement\Aarogya\node_modules\react-native-share\android\build.gradle' line: 53
* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':react-native-share'.
> Could not find method compileOnly() for arguments [com.facebook.react:react-native:+] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler.
* Try:
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BUILD FAILED
Total time: 7 mins 24.686 secs
Could not install the app on the device, read the error above for details.
Make sure you have an Android emulator running or a device connected and have
set up your Android development environment:
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started.html
I traced the path to the error location and my build.gradle is below:
buildscript {
repositories {
jcenter()
maven {
url 'https://maven.google.com/'
name 'Google'
}
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.2'
}
}
apply plugin: 'com.android.library'
def safeExtGet(prop, fallback) {
rootProject.ext.has(prop) ? rootProject.ext.get(prop) : fallback
}
android {
compileSdkVersion safeExtGet('compileSdkVersion', 27)
buildToolsVersion safeExtGet('buildToolsVersion', '27.0.3')
defaultConfig {
minSdkVersion safeExtGet('minSdkVersion', 16)
targetSdkVersion safeExtGet('targetSdkVersion', 27)
versionCode 1
versionName "1.0.0"
}
lintOptions {
abortOnError false
warning 'InvalidPackage'
}
}
repositories {
mavenCentral()
maven {
url 'https://maven.google.com/'
name 'Google'
}
maven {
// All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android"
}
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
compileOnly "com.facebook.react:react-native:${safeExtGet('reactNativeVersion', '+')}"
implementation "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:${safeExtGet('supportLibVersion', '27.1.0')}"
}
I have no idea what is wrong here. I have not even started writing code in app.js yet. I am using a physical device to run the code with an adb device.

Answer 1

The error you are getting is from the library react-native-share.
Did you follow the instructions to installing it right?