App does not build because of react-native-reanimated

Description

When compiling my app, React Native Reanimated gives an error in the build.gradle file:

FAILURE: Build completed with 2 failures.

1: Task failed with an exception.
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* Where:
Build file '/home/mart/git/community_app_github/node_modules/react-native-reanimated/android/build.gradle' line: 21

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':react-native-reanimated'.
> Plugin with id 'maven' not found.

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.
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2: Task failed with an exception.
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* What went wrong:
A problem occurred configuring project ':react-native-reanimated'.
> compileSdkVersion is not specified. Please add it to build.gradle

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.
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* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 4s

Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 8.0.
Use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings.
See https://docs.gradle.org/7.0/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings

I tried running npm update --force, but this gave an error of abs not being defined, with no js source files I can find.

Package versions

• React Native: ^0.63.4
• React Native Reanimated: ^1.8.0
• NodeJS: 12.16.1
• Xcode: N/A
• Java & Gradle: Java 16 (java-16-jdk), Gradle 7.0

Affected platforms

• Android