URGENT: Issue with Jitpack repo in latest version

[wilkinson4]

Really would appreciate a response on this since the deadline to upgrade zoom meetings sdk version is Nov 4th 2023. I tried updating to the latest version of react-native-zoom-us from 6.16.5 but I get the error message below when trying to build/run the app locally. After a lot of googling I tried to upgrade my react-native version from 0.71.3 to 0.72.6, but I am still experiencing the same error when trying to run the app locally.

MacOS Sonoma 14.0 - M2

Error Message:

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:checkStagingDebugAarMetadata'.
> Could not resolve all files for configuration ':app:StagingDebugRuntimeClasspath'.
   > Failed to transform mobilertc-5.13.10.12578.aar (com.github.zoom-us-community.jitpack-zoom-us:mobilertc:5.13.10.12578) to match attributes {artifactType=a
ndroid-aar-metadata, org.gradle.status=release}.
      > Could not find mobilertc-5.13.10.12578.aar (com.github.zoom-us-community.jitpack-zoom-us:mobilertc:5.13.10.12578).
        Searched in the following locations:
            https://jitpack.io/com/github/zoom-us-community/jitpack-zoom-us/mobilertc/5.13.10.12578/mobilertc-5.13.10.12578.aar

build.gradle

// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.
buildscript {
    ext {
        buildToolsVersion = "33.0.2"
        minSdkVersion = 23
        compileSdkVersion = 33
        targetSdkVersion = 33
        ndkVersion = "23.1.7779620"
        googlePlayServicesVersion = "17.0.0"
        supportLibVersion = "28.0.0"
        kotlinVersion = "1.7.20"
    }
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.1")
        classpath('com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.15')
        classpath('org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.7.20')
        classpath("com.facebook.react:react-native-gradle-plugin")
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        maven {
            // react-native-background-fetch
            url("${project(':react-native-background-fetch').projectDir}/libs")
        }
        maven { url { "https://jitpack.io" } }
    }
}

[bryanmalaluan]

We are experiencing this issue as well, we can't release to google play because of this

[wilkinson4]

I changed this:

implementation 'com.github.zoom-us-community:jitpack-zoom-us:5.13.10.12578'

to this:

implementation 'com.github.zoom-us-community.jitpack-zoom-us:commonlib:5.13.10.12578' // 5.13.10.12577

...in my react-native-zoom-us build.gradle locally, and now I'm getting these errors.

  symbol: class MeetingViewsOptions
/Users/williamwilkinson/workspace/cb-risk-mobile/node_modules/react-native-zoom-us/android/src/main/java/ch/milosz/reactnative/RNZoomUsModule.java:360: error: cannot find symbol
          JoinMeetingParam4WithoutLogin params = new JoinMeetingParam4WithoutLogin();
          ^
  symbol: class JoinMeetingParam4WithoutLogin
Note: /Users/williamwilkinson/workspace/cb-risk-mobile/node_modules/react-native-zoom-us/android/src/main/java/ch/milosz/reactnative/RNZoomUsModule.java uses or overrides a deprecat
ed API.
Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
100 errors
  symbol: class MeetingViewsOptions
/Users/williamwilkinson/workspace/cb-risk-mobile/node_modules/react-native-zoom-us/android/src/main/java/ch/milosz/reactnative/RNZoomUsModule.java:360: error: cannot find symbol
          JoinMeetingParam4WithoutLogin params = new JoinMeetingParam4WithoutLogin();
          ^
  symbol: class JoinMeetingParam4WithoutLogin
Note: /Users/williamwilkinson/workspace/cb-risk-mobile/node_modules/react-native-zoom-us/android/src/main/java/ch/milosz/reactnative/RNZoomUsModule.java uses or overrides a deprecat
ed API.
Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
100 errors

[bryanmalaluan]

@mieszko4 can you have a look at it please thanks!

[wilkinson4]

Update on this. We found a workaround for now by just downloading the aar files manually and changing the react-native-zoom-us's build.gradle file to what I had below. I'm not sure if there is an issue with the .jar file located at that jitpack location that is causing the issue, but I noticed that it's managed by zoom directly, so maybe it just fell by the wayside 🤷‍♂️

-     implementation 'com.github.zoom-us-community:jitpack-zoom-us:5.13.10.12578' // 5.13.10.12577
+    implementation files('/path-to-zoom-sdk-on-machine/zoom-sdk-android-5.13.10.12577/mobilertc-android-studio/mobilertc/mobilertc.aar')
+    implementation files('/path-to-zoom-sdk-on-machine/zoom-sdk-android-5.13.10.12577/mobilertc-android-studio/commonlib/commonlib.aar')

[frankie-fk]

I face the same issue, have to upgrade to:
implementation 'com.github.zoom-us-community:jitpack-zoom-us:5.14.11.14322'
then I have to change a lot of stuff on android folder of react-native-zoom-us, successfully run the build but got crash when trying to join a webinar.

[wilkinson4]

I face the same issue, have to upgrade to: implementation 'com.github.zoom-us-community:jitpack-zoom-us:5.14.11.14322' then I have to change a lot of stuff on android folder of react-native-zoom-us, successfully run the build but got crash when trying to join a webinar.

That is because there were breaking changes in 5.14.0. So the react native zoom us code will need to be changed to reflect that.

[mieszko4]

The err is here:

Searched in the following locations:
            https://jitpack.io/com/github/zoom-us-community/jitpack-zoom-us/mobilertc/5.13.10.12578/mobilertc-5.13.10.12578.aar

If you go to https://jitpack.io/com/github/zoom-us-community/jitpack-zoom-us/mobilertc/5.13.10.12578/, you will see that it is missing mobilertc-5.13.10.12578.aar.

On the other hand, in the build logs (https://jitpack.io/com/github/zoom-us-community/jitpack-zoom-us/5.13.10.12578/build.log) there is mobilertc/5.13.10.12578/mobilertc-5.13.10.12578.aar in ✅ Build artifacts:

Also, I am certain that I tested this version on Android back then.
So for me it looks like this file was deleted by jitpack. Perhaps jitpack is having issues?

---

The newest jitpack build has .aar file in https://jitpack.io/com/github/zoom-us-community/jitpack-zoom-us/mobilertc/5.16.2.16555/

So that looks fine. However, I did not add this jitpack to react-native-zoom-us yet because of build issue which I still haven't figure out (#292)

[mieszko4]

I created jitpack issue jitpack/jitpack.io#5950

[frankie-fk]

hi @wilkinson4 , thanks for your idea on importing local SDK, I copy the ZoomSDK folder directly to android folder and point implementation of mobilrtc and commonlib to it. Can make build now.

[frankie-fk]

actually I can run it locally but cannot make build due to this:

Direct local .aar file dependencies are not supported when building an AAR. The resulting AAR would be broken because the classes and Android resources from any local .aar file dependencies would not be packaged in the resulting AAR. Previous versions of the Android Gradle Plugin produce broken AARs in this case too (despite not throwing this error). The following direct local .aar file dependencies of the :react-native-zoom-us project caused this error: /Users/frankie/Downloads/CODING/ReactNative/Projects/Cysterhood/android/app/libs/mobilertc.aar, /Users/frankie/Downloads/CODING/ReactNative/Projects/Cysterhood/android/app/libs/commonlib.aar

[frankie-fk]

For those who use the workaround to copy commonlib and mobilertc directly to the project and face the issue Direct local .aar when building/bundling build, here's the steps:

1. Download ZoomSDK 5.13.10.12578, copy 2 folder commonlib and mobilertc to Android root folder.
2. In the file android/app/build.gradle of the app, add these:

    implementation project(':commonlib')
    implementation project(':mobilertc')

3. In the file android/settings.gradle of the app, add these:

    include ':mobilertc'
    include ':commonlib'

4. In the file android/build.gradle of the react-native-zoom-us package (you have to fork them and make changes), add these:

    implementation project(path: ':commonlib')
    implementation project(path: ':mobilertc')

[miarevalo10]

This is also blocking us from building the app

It seems like the missing build artifacts issue has also happened to other people before jitpack/jitpack.io#5741
The workaround they did was:

We have since worked around this issue, simply by tagging a new empty commit. But the issue described here still indicates a bug; would be good to better understand it.
jitpack/jitpack.io#5741 (comment)

@mieszko4 Could we try doing this to see if it fixes the issue?

[mieszko4]

@mieszko4 Could we try doing this to see if it fixes the issue?

Not sure what they mean by tagging a new empty commit. I think we would have to change the version which means that we would need to update react-native-zoom-us

[mieszko4]

I just build a new version and all assets show correctly in https://jitpack.io/com/github/zoom-us-community/jitpack-zoom-us/mobilertc/5.13.10.12579/ (as expected)

[mieszko4]

I also updated react-native-zoom-us and made a patch release. Please try with 6.18.1

[frankie-fk]

great work, thank you so much @mieszko4