[0.73] Crash build android app when update packages

[ShchipskiiYura]

Description

import com.brentvatne.react.ReactVideoPackage

...

 override fun getPackages(): ArrayList<ReactPackage> {
 packages.add(new ReactVideoPackage())
 // Packages that cannot be autolinked yet can be added manually here, for example:
 // packages.add(new MyReactNativePackage());
 return PackageList(this).packages

 }

When I try to add new package to getPackages method in android, I have crash a build with error

file:///Users/username/Desktop/projectName/android/app/src/main/java/com/projectName/MainApplication.kt:44:26 Unresolved reference: new

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:compileDebugKotlin'.
> A failure occurred while executing org.jetbrains.kotlin.compilerRunner.GradleCompilerRunnerWithWorkers$GradleKotlinCompilerWorkAction
 > Compilation error. See log for more details

Steps to reproduce

yarn android

React Native Version

0.73

Affected Platforms

Runtime - Android

Output of npx react-native info

emulator pixel 4

Stacktrace or Logs

Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.
e: file:///Users/user/Desktop/projectName/android/app/src/main/java/com/projectName/MainApplication.kt:44:48 Expecting an expression
e: file:///Users/user/Desktop/projectName/android/app/src/main/java/com/projectName/MainApplication.kt:44:26 Unresolved reference: new

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:compileDebugKotlin'.
> A failure occurred while executing org.jetbrains.kotlin.compilerRunner.GradleCompilerRunnerWithWorkers$GradleKotlinCompilerWorkAction
 > Compilation error. See log for more details

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Reproducer

https://github.com/

Screenshots and Videos

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[cortinico]

Closing as you provided no reproducer.
Your code is not compiling, most likely because you have a missing import.
Sadly without a reproducer I can't tell you exaclty which line is broken and which import to include

[professorkolik]

@cortinico there is no need to create reproducer since the "issue" exists in ReproducerApp by default

It's about this line
https://github.com/react-native-community/reproducer-react-native/blob/main/ReproducerApp/android/app/src/main/java/com/reproducerapp/MainApplication.kt#L21

Just uncomment packages.add(); and AndroidStudio will throw error => Unresolved reference: add

So I assume it should look smth like

override fun getPackages(): List<ReactPackage> {
 val packages = PackageList(this).packages
 
 packages.add(new MyReactNativePackage());

 return packages;
}

[UPD] Additionally because of moving to Kotlin no need to have new for creating instance as per https://kotlinlang.org/docs/classes.html#creating-instances-of-classes

[cortinico]

@professorkolik this will be fixed in 0.73.2
The fix is here: #41856
It's a comment also so it's a low priority fix.

[professorkolik]

@cortinico thank you