Error when trying to find Gradle while compiling the project

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Hello everyone, how are you? I’m having a difficulty here and would like some help. Essentially, we have a React Native project for Android, and we’re trying to compile it, but it’s causing an error saying that the correct version of Gradle was not found.
We’re doing this to update React Native to be compatible with SDK 33 or higher.
The error is as follows:

BUILD FAILED in 18s

error Failed to install the app. Make sure you have the Android development environment set up: https://reactnative.dev/docs/environment-setup.
Error: Command failed: gradlew.bat app:installDebug -PreactNativeDevServerPort=8081

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred configuring root project 'Ludare'.
> Could not determine the dependencies of null.
   > Could not resolve all task dependencies for configuration ':classpath'.
      > Could not find com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.3.3.
        Searched in the following locations:
          - https://jitpack.io/com/android/tools/build/gradle/7.3.3/gradle-7.3.3.pom
          - https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/android/tools/build/gradle/7.3.3/gradle-7.3.3.pom
          - https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/android/tools/build/gradle/7.3.3/gradle-7.3.3.pom
        Required by:
            project :
      > Could not find com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.3.3.
        Searched in the following locations:
          - https://jitpack.io/com/android/tools/build/gradle/7.3.3/gradle-7.3.3.pom
          - https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/android/tools/build/gradle/7.3.3/gradle-7.3.3.pom
          - https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/android/tools/build/gradle/7.3.3/gradle-7.3.3.pom
        Required by:
            project : > project :react-native-gradle-plugin

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BUILD FAILED in 18s

    at makeError (C:\Users\seiji\Followmme-FrontEnd\node_modules\execa\index.js:174:9)
    at C:\Users\seiji\Followmme-FrontEnd\node_modules\execa\index.js:278:16
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
    at async runOnAllDevices (C:\Users\seiji\Followmme-FrontEnd\node_modules\react-native\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\build\commands\runAndroid\runOnAllDevices.js:109:5)
    at async Command.handleAction (C:\Users\seiji\Followmme-FrontEnd\node_modules\react-native\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli\build\index.js:192:9)
info Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details.
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.

Thank you very much for the help.

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It does not say it does not find the correct version of Gradle.
It says it cannot find the version of Android Gradle Plugin you requested.
They just unluckily named their artifact gradle, but this has nothing to do with the Gradle version.
If you look at https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.android.tools.build/gradle, you can see that there indeed is no version 7.3.3 of that plugin.

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Thank you very much for the response! What solution would you recommend for me to do?

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Do not try to use a version that does not exist. :slight_smile:

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