After updating to React Native 0.68, I got this error when executing ./gradlew :

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/Users/username/path/projectname/android/app/build.gradle' line: 1

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':app'.
> Failed to apply plugin 'com.android.internal.application'.
   > Android Gradle plugin requires Java 11 to run. You are currently using Java 1.8.
     You can try some of the following options:
       - changing the IDE settings.
       - changing the JAVA_HOME environment variable.
       - changing `org.gradle.java.home` in `gradle.properties`.

CodePudding user response：

On MacOS, you just need to install the Java Development Kit recommended by React Native

brew tap homebrew/cask-versions
brew install --cask zulu11

I guess you need to do choco install -y nodejs-lts openjdk11 on Windows by I haven't tested it.

Source: https://reactnative.dev/docs/environment-setup#installing-dependencies

CodePudding user response：

The answer of this question is in below link :

Android Studio Error "Android Gradle plugin requires Java 11 to run. You are currently using Java 1.8"

You can checkout there there are couple of answer's there and the Accepted answer worked in my case.