Could not find method compile() for arguments [directory 'libs']

[Mgregchi]

Hi! 👋

Firstly, thanks for your work on this project! 🙂

Today I used patch-package to patch react-native-voice@0.3.0 for the project I'm working on.

Android gradle plugin: 8.8.2
Gradle: 8.13
[Incubating] Problems report is available at: file:///home/expo/workingdir/build/android/build/reports/problems/problems-report.html
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* Where:
Build file '/home/expo/workingdir/build/node_modules/react-native-voice/android/build.gradle' line: 61
* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':react-native-voice'.
> Could not find method compile() for arguments [directory 'libs'] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler.

Here is the diff that solved my problem:

diff --git a/node_modules/react-native-voice/android/build.gradle b/node_modules/react-native-voice/android/build.gradle
index c0484f8..813201f 100644
--- a/node_modules/react-native-voice/android/build.gradle
+++ b/node_modules/react-native-voice/android/build.gradle
@@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ allprojects {
 def supportVersion = rootProject.hasProperty('supportLibVersion') ? rootProject.supportLibVersion : DEFAULT_SUPPORT_LIB_VERSION
 
 dependencies {
-    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
+    // compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
+    implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
     testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
     compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:${supportVersion}'
     compile 'com.facebook.react:react-native:+'

This issue body was partially generated by patch-package.

[davidbfrogman]

dependencies {
    //compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
	implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    // testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
    // compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:${supportVersion}'
    // compile 'com.facebook.react:react-native:+'
}

I ended up having to do this to get it to compile. Not sure if that will break the functionality, but I'm ok if I have a worse app on play store, so it's fine for my use case. Just changing that first compile line didn't fix it for me.

[Mgregchi]

dependencies {
    //compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
	implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    // testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
    // compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:${supportVersion}'
    // compile 'com.facebook.react:react-native:+'
}

I ended up having to do this to get it to compile. Not sure if that will break the functionality, but I'm ok if I have a worse app on play store, so it's fine for my use case. Just changing that first compile line didn't fix it for me.

Well, at least you've forward