how to change gradle version in nativescript

Question

I'm confused as how to change a specific configuration somewhere to determine the version of my gradle, in a nativescript project. My workspace is created with nx and when I try to run the app with npx nx run test:android I get this error message:

Could not compile settings file '<somepath>\start\learn\apps\nativescript-test\platforms\android\settings.gradle'.
> startup failed:
  General error during conversion: Unsupported class file major version 62

Based on my research if I need to resolve this issue I need to either update my gradle version or downgrade my JDK version. The solution I'm searching for is to how to specify my gradle version. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

based on my understanding version of gradle is defined by @nativescript/android package (read its README.md), so if updating the @nativescript/android doesn't help do the next steps

1- install jdk 18 -> because its the first version that supports major version 62
2- add JAVA_HOME to env vars
3- in platform/gradle.properties add org.gradle.java.home=C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk-18.0.1  (because in my case gradle didn't read form JAVA_HOME)
4- change platform/gradle-wrapper gradle version to 7.4.2
5- in platform/build.gradle do this: replace whatever version of plugin to classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.2.0'