[Android] Can not build and start App with React-Native 0.66 / Transforming error during the build

[tscharke]

What happened?

Running react-native run-android ends with this errors:

Execution failed for task ':react-native-async-storage_async-storage:javaPreCompileDebug'.
> Could not resolve all files for configuration ':react-native-async-storage_async-storage:debugCompileClasspath'.
   > Failed to transform react-native-0.66.3.aar (com.facebook.react:react-native:0.66.3) to match attributes {artifactType=android-classes, org.gradle.category=library, org.gradle.dependency.bundling=external, org.gradle.libraryelements=aar, org.gradle.status=release, org.gradle.usage=java-api}.
      > Execution failed for AarToClassTransform: /.gradle/caches/transforms-3/fe16f2a60697f01322c3b4b0b359c91d/transformed/jetified-react-native-0.66.3.aar.
         > /.gradle/caches/transforms-3/fe16f2a60697f01322c3b4b0b359c91d/transformed/jetified-react-native-0.66.3.aar (No such file or directory)
   > Failed to transform fbcore-2.5.0.aar (com.facebook.fresco:fbcore:2.5.0) to match attributes {artifactType=android-classes, org.gradle.category=library, org.gradle.dependency.bundling=external, org.gradle.libraryelements=aar, org.gradle.status=release, org.gradle.usage=java-api}.
      > Execution failed for AarToClassTransform: /.gradle/caches/transforms-3/f7f583640c19851b655d32a16b2cee53/transformed/jetified-fbcore-2.5.0.aar.
         > /.gradle/caches/transforms-3/f7f583640c19851b655d32a16b2cee53/transformed/jetified-fbcore-2.5.0.aar (No such file or directory)

Have tried…

• to clean and delete the caches,
• update to the latest version 1.15.11
• Set compileSdkVersion = 30 and targetSdkVersion = 30
  …unfortunately without success🤷‍♂️

Version

1.15.11

What platforms are you seeing this issue on?

• Android
• iOS
• macOS
• Windows
• web

System Information

System:
    OS: macOS 11.6
    CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7920HQ CPU @ 3.10GHz
    Memory: 471.96 MB / 16.00 GB
    Shell: 5.8 - /bin/zsh
  Binaries:
    Node: 16.4.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.4.0/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.17 - ~/node_modules/.bin/yarn
    npm: 7.19.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.4.0/bin/npm
    Watchman: 4.9.0 - /usr/local/bin/watchman
  Managers:
    CocoaPods: 1.11.2 - ~/.rbenv/shims/pod
  SDKs:
    iOS SDK:
      Platforms: DriverKit 21.0.1, iOS 15.0, macOS 12.0, tvOS 15.0, watchOS 8.0
    Android SDK:
      API Levels: 16, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
      Build Tools: 28.0.3, 29.0.0, 29.0.2
      System Images: android-16 | Intel x86 Atom, android-24 | Intel x86 Atom_64, android-27 | Intel x86 Atom_64, android-27 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-28 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom_64, android-30 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-30 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom_64
      Android NDK: Not Found
  IDEs:
    Android Studio: 4.1 AI-201.8743.12.41.6953283
    Xcode: 13.1/13A1030d - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
  Languages:
    Java: 1.8.0_60 - /usr/bin/javac
  npmPackages:
    @react-native-community/cli: Not Found
    react: 17.0.2 => 17.0.2 
    react-native: 0.66.3 => 0.66.3 
    react-native-macos: Not Found
  npmGlobalPackages:
    *react-native*: Not Found

Steps to Reproduce

Described above.