foojay-resolver-convention 0.5.0 in gradle-plugin is incompatible with Gradle 9.0.0

Description

The @react-native/gradle-plugin bundles settings.gradle.kts with:

plugins { id("org.gradle.toolchains.foojay-resolver-convention").version("0.5.0") }

React Native 0.83.x uses Gradle 9.0.0 (set in gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties), but foojay-resolver-convention 0.5.0 depends on FoojayToolchainsPlugin, a class that was removed in Gradle 9.0.0.

This causes a build failure on any fresh project or after clearing Gradle caches.

Steps to reproduce

npx create-expo-app@latest --template default@sdk-55
cd <project>
rm -rf ~/.gradle/caches
npx expo run:android

Error

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Settings file 'android/settings.gradle' line: 21

* What went wrong:
Error resolving plugin [id: 'com.facebook.react.settings']
> org/gradle/toolchains/foojay/FoojayToolchainsPlugin

Full stacktrace:

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/gradle/toolchains/foojay/FoojayToolchainsPlugin
    at org.gradle.toolchains.foojay.FoojayToolchainsConventionPlugin.apply(FoojayToolchainsConventionPlugin.kt:11)

Root cause

Component	Version
react-native	0.83.4
@react-native/gradle-plugin	0.83.4
Gradle	9.0.0
foojay-resolver-convention	0.5.0

Gradle 9.0.0 removed the FoojayToolchainsPlugin class that foojay 0.5.0 depends on. Versions 0.8.0+ of foojay-resolver-convention are compatible with Gradle 9.0.0.

Verified fix

Updating settings.gradle.kts in @react-native/gradle-plugin from:

plugins { id("org.gradle.toolchains.foojay-resolver-convention").version("0.5.0") }

to:

plugins { id("org.gradle.toolchains.foojay-resolver-convention").version("0.9.0") }

resolves the issue. The build also requires --no-configure-on-demand to avoid a related metadata.bin generation failure.

Affected versions

• react-native 0.83.0 through 0.84.1 (all ship foojay 0.5.0 with Gradle 9.0.0)
• Expo SDK 55 (uses react-native 0.83.x)
• Reproducible on macOS (ARM64) with Java 17 and Node 24

Environment

System: macOS 26.3.1 (arm64)
Node: v24.14.0
Java: OpenJDK 17.0.18 (Zulu)
Gradle: 9.0.0
react-native: 0.83.4
Expo SDK: 55.0.9

Bắt đầu với settings.gradle.kts trong @react-native/gradle-plugin và gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties để xác nhận các phiên bản Gradle và foojay. Tái hiện lỗi bằng các lệnh Expo Android sau khi xóa các bộ nhớ đệm Gradle, sau đó xác minh rằng một dự án mới có thể build với Gradle 9.0.0 và cấu hình resolver đã được cập nhật; đồng thời kiểm tra yêu cầu --no-configure-on-demand đã được báo cáo.