Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 7.0 - React Native

13 Feb 2021 • 1 min read

ReactNative is one of the popular cross platform mobile application authoring platform which is powered by the most popular frontend library React, same thing that powers the social media giant facebook's website. I encountred below error when I try to install react-native-razorpay and run my RN project.

Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 7.0.
Use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings.
See https://docs.gradle.org/6.2/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings
24 actionable tasks: 17 executed, 7 up-to-date
/home/shivaraj/experiments/RazorpayRNapp/android/app/src/debug/AndroidManifest.xml Error:
        uses-sdk:minSdkVersion 16 cannot be smaller than version 19 declared in library [com.razorpay:checkout:1.6.4] /home/shivaraj/.gradle/caches/transforms-2/files-2.1/b770a516ee8ebbafcfdb55683fe44089/checkout-1.6.4/AndroidManifest.xml as the library might be using APIs not available in 16
        Suggestion: use a compatible library with a minSdk of at most 16,
                or increase this project's minSdk version to at least 19,
                or use tools:overrideLibrary="com.razorpay" to force usage (may lead to runtime failures)

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

I tried diffrent solutions/workarounds commented in Razorpay's github issue page and stackoverflow.

But nothing fixed the actual issue..

After that I just changed minSdkVersion property value in android/build.gradle to 19 from 16 that fixes the issue.