Gradle build fails

[ABS96]

When running react-native run-android, in a project with this module installed, the build fails with the following error:

FAILURE: Build completed with 2 failures.

1: Task failed with an exception.
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* Where:
Build file '<project directory>\node_modules\react-native-headless-work-manager\android\build.gradle' line: 23

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':react-native-headless-work-manager'.
> Plugin with id 'maven' not found.

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.
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2: Task failed with an exception.
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* What went wrong:
A problem occurred configuring project ':react-native-headless-work-manager'.
> com.android.builder.errors.EvalIssueException: compileSdkVersion is not specified. Please add it to build.gradle

From what I gather, this is because the plugin maven is no longer available in newer versions of Gradle.

According to this thread, that is possible to fix by using maven-publish instead of maven.

I replaced maven with maven-publish in build.gradle, which led to another error:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '<project directory>\node_modules\react-native-headless-work-manager\android\build.gradle' line: 133

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred configuring project ':react-native-headless-work-manager'.
> Could not find method mavenDeployer() for arguments [build_cj7yjhw1weazehvgg64c2lzzv$_run_closure4$_closure15$_closure17@716ecd40] on repository container of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.DefaultRepositoryHandler.

Fixing this is currently beyond my expertise.

Could you please update the module with a build configuration that's compatible with newer Gradle versions?

[Mynameisjohndev]

I also had the same error, now it's time to wait for them to update or create a java module to supply this for now!