React Native Android worked yesterday but fails today? Check these first

This is one of the most frustrating situations in React Native Android development:

everything worked yesterday

you change almost nothing

suddenly the build fails

And now you’re staring at:

BUILD FAILED

Execution failed for task

missing dependencies

random Gradle errors

The worst part is that sometimes the error message makes it look like the whole project exploded overnight.

Most of the time, though, the issue comes from a few common causes.

Here’s what I usually check first before going into full debugging mode.

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