Issue with react-native-sodium blocks Android builds with latest Gradle version

[kaxline]

Here's the error I received immediately after installing react-native-etebase:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':react-native-sodium:mergeDebugNativeLibs'.
> A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.MergeJavaResWorkAction
   > 2 files found with path 'lib/armeabi-v7a/libsodium.so'.
     If you are using jniLibs and CMake IMPORTED targets, see
     https://developer.android.com/r/tools/jniLibs-vs-imported-targets

The problem is explained in the link from the error, but it ultimately appears to be the react-native-sodium dependency that's at fault.

I was able to get it working by editing the react-native-sodium grade.build file like this:

    sourceSets {
        main {
//            jniLibs.srcDirs = ['./lib']
        }
    }

But of course this will be overwritten whenever the package is updated or reinstalled. I don't know enough about Gradle to overwrite this in my project's gradle.build, so if anyone knows how to do that, I think it would be helpful.

This could potentially happen with other packages as well, not just react-native-sodium. Here's how other people have solved the issue, but the solutions didn't work for me:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62088079/error-when-building-project-with-ndk-support-after-updating-to-android-studio-4

[tasn]

Weird, I didn't get it. Maybe open a ticket with react native sodium?

[kaxline]

@tasn Oh OK, we can close this then if it's not reproducible.

[tasn]

I'll keep it open, though I'm not sure what the issue is.