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. 1. Did anything update automatically? This is more common than people think. Even if you didn’t change code: dependencies may have updated caches may have changed Gradle may be resolving something differently If you recently ran: npm install Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode or: yarn install Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode there’s a chance something shifted in your dependency tree. 2.…