# Trouble react-native-webrtc (android) and react-native 0.59.0+

**URL:** <https://react-native-webrtc.discourse.group/t/trouble-react-native-webrtc-android-and-react-native-0-59-0/597>\
**Category:** Android\
**Created:** [April 14, 2020, 7:57am UTC](https://react-native-webrtc.discourse.group/t/trouble-react-native-webrtc-android-and-react-native-0-59-0/597 "2020-04-14T07:57:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 7:57am UTC](https://react-native-webrtc.discourse.group/t/trouble-react-native-webrtc-android-and-react-native-0-59-0/597/1 "2020-04-14T07:57:27Z")

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Hello everyone!

The installation instructions for react-native-webrtc for the android application are not relevant today ([https://github.com/react-native-webrtc/react-native-webrtc/blob/master/Documentation/AndroidInstallation.md](https://github.com/react-native-webrtc/react-native-webrtc/blob/master/Documentation/AndroidInstallation.md)).

If we indicate in the project:  
classpath ‘com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.1’  
distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.1-all.zip

It becomes impossible to use react-native newer than 0.58.6 due to the react.gradle config.

And when using react-native-cli to create a new project, the minimum version of react-native is 0.59.0 (npx react-native init AwesomeProject --version X.XX.X).

Do you plan further support for the project  
react-native-webrtc with new versions of react-native 0.62.2+?

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**Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 3:46pm UTC](https://react-native-webrtc.discourse.group/t/trouble-react-native-webrtc-android-and-react-native-0-59-0/597/2 "2020-04-14T15:46:57Z")

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You are right, the instructions do need updating a little.  
But the module does indeed work on the latest React-Native.

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**Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 4:03pm UTC](https://react-native-webrtc.discourse.group/t/trouble-react-native-webrtc-android-and-react-native-0-59-0/597/3 "2020-04-14T16:03:36Z")

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Just means adding the following to your android/gradle.properties file.  
`android.enableDexingArtifactTransform.desugaring=false`  
Along with `"com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.6.2"` in android/build.gradle and also `distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.6.4-all.zip` in android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

Those changes are mostly needed due to gradle upgrades used by newer React-Native versions.