AndroidTest build failure due to Java 8 incompatibility

[antpuleo2586]

I'm having an issue when building an android test app via the Detox testing framework.
It looks like you're using Java 8 features without enabling the desugaring:

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':react-native-ux-cam:mergeExtDexDebugAndroidTest'.
> Could not resolve all files for configuration ':react-native-ux-cam:debugAndroidTestRuntimeClasspath'.
   > Failed to transform file 'uxcam.jar' to match attributes {artifactType=android-dex, dexing-is-debuggable=true, dexing-min-sdk=16, org.gradle.usage=java-runtime-jars}
      > Execution failed for DexingTransform: /Users/me/my-app/node_modules/react-native-ux-cam/android/libs/uxcam.jar.
         > Error while dexing.
           The dependency contains Java 8 bytecode. Please enable desugaring by adding the following to build.gradle
           android {
               compileOptions {
                   sourceCompatibility 1.8
                   targetCompatibility 1.8
               }
           }
           See https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support.html for details. Alternatively, increase the minSdkVersion to 26 or above.

If I patch your build.gradle file with:

android {
    compileOptions {
       sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
       targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    }
    ...

then everything works.

Any chance this could be updated in the repo? I can open a PR if you want?

Cheers

Ant

[susanuxcam]

Hey @antpuleo2586, thanks for letting us know about the issue. I've already sent it to our developers and I will come back to you as soon as I hear back from them.

[susanuxcam]

hey again @antpuleo2586! I just wanted to let you know that this issue has been resolved with the latest release. Please, make sure to do a version update and verify if it helped. Thanks!