When deploying, I have a :react-native-screens:compileReleaseKotlin FAILED apparently due to versioning

Question

When I build my android app, I get this error message:

Task :react-native-screens:compileReleaseKotlin FAILED e: Incompatible classes were found in dependencies. Remove them from the classpath or use '-Xskip-metadata-version-check' to suppress errors e: /Users/vagrant/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/1811d0365a09e856e56e835cbefa53ec/transformed/jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk7-1.6.10.jar!/META-INF/kotlin-stdlib-jdk7.kotlin_module: Module was compiled with an incompatible version of Kotlin. The binary version of its metadata is 1.6.0, expected version is 1.4.0.

How can I fix this?

I tried to extend the version from 1.4.0 to 1.6.0 but I receive the following error:

> Task :app:mergeReleaseNativeLibs FAILED
Execution optimizations have been disabled for task ':app:mergeReleaseNativeLibs' to ensure correctness due to the following reasons:
  - Gradle detected a problem with the following location: '/Users/aalarcony/work/diampark/digipark_react_app/android/app/build/intermediates/merged_jni_libs/release/out'. Reason: Task ':app:mergeReleaseNativeLibs' uses this output of task ':app:copyReleaseBundledJs' without declaring an explicit or implicit dependency. Th

Answer 1

So I was able to get my project to build by following these instructions on the react-native-screens GitHub. Basically I just added this to my build.gradle file:

buildscript {
ext {
    kotlinVersion = "1.6.0"
}
}

Still wish I knew why it has been working for a months and all of a sudden it broke!