External Dependencies Manager Resolve Could not initialize class org.codehaus.groovy.vmplugin.v7.Java7 - StansAssets/com.stansassets.android-native GitHub Wiki

Recently I am getting this error more and more when trying to resolve dependencies with Google External Dependencies Manager (Play Service resolver)

Gradle failed to fetch dependencies.

Failed to run '/Users/stan/Documents/StansAssets/Native-Plugins/NativePluginsUnityProject/Temp/PlayServicesResolverGradle/gradlew --no-daemon -b "/Users/stan/Documents/StansAssets/Native-Plugins/NativePluginsUnityProject/Temp/PlayServicesResolverGradle/PlayServicesResolver.scripts.download_artifacts.gradle" "-PANDROID_HOME=/Applications/Unity/Hub/Editor/2019.4.16f1/PlaybackEngines/AndroidPlayer/SDK" "-PTARGET_DIR=/Users/stan/Documents/StansAssets/Native-Plugins/NativePluginsUnityProject/Assets/Plugins/Android" "-PMAVEN_REPOS=" "-PPACKAGES_TO_COPY=com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.5;androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.2.0;com.android.billingclient:billing:3.0.1;com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:19.0.0;com.google.android.gms:play-services-games:21.0.0" "-PUSE_JETIFIER=1" "-PDATA_BINDING_VERSION=3.4.0"'
stdout:

stderr:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.codehaus.groovy.vmplugin.v7.Java7
	at org.codehaus.groovy.vmplugin.VMPluginFactory.<clinit>(VMPluginFactory.java:43)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.GroovyClassValueFactory.<clinit>(GroovyClassValueFactory.java:35)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ClassInfo.<clinit>(ClassInfo.java:109)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ReflectionCache.getCachedClass(ReflectionCache.java:95)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ReflectionCache.<clinit>(ReflectionCache.java:39)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.metaclass.MetaClassRegistryImpl.registerMethods(MetaClassRegistryImpl.java:209)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.metaclass.MetaClassRegistryImpl.<init>(MetaClassRegistryImpl.java:107)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.metaclass.MetaClassRegistryImpl.<init>(MetaClassRegistryImpl.java:85)
	...

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

There are a lot of similar cases over the internet but everyone sharing different solutions. I'd like to share the one that worked for me.

  • Open Unity Preferences window
  • Toggle off and then back on toggles I marked on the screenshot below.
UM_ContactsSample_-_NativePluginsUnityProject_-_Android_-_Unity_2019_4_16f1__PREVIEW_PACKAGES_IN_USE___Metal_

Hope it will help somebody.

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