React native – Eas build fails with error Execution failed for task ':expo-splash-screen:compileReleaseKotlin'

I am trying to create an APK from react native expo application but upon doing the command to generate the apk (eas build), I run into the following error :

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FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

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• What went wrong:

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Execution failed for task ‘:expo-splash-screen:compileReleaseKotlin’.

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A failure occurred while executing org.jetbrains.kotlin.compilerRunner.GradleCompilerRunnerWithWorkers$GradleKotlinCompilerWorkAction

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Compilation error. See log for more details

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• Try:

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Run with –stacktrace option to get the stack trace.

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Run with –info or –debug option to get more log output.

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Run with –scan to get full insights.

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• Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

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BUILD FAILED in 6m 32s

Error: Gradle build failed with unknown error. See logs for the "Run
gradlew" phase for more information.

I thought the error could be from splash in the app.json file but I can’t see what’s wrong in it.

{
  "expo": {
    "name": "Talky",
    "slug": "talky",
    "scheme": "com.bertdelaspeed.talky",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "orientation": "portrait",
    "icon": "./assets/Talky_logo.png",
    "userInterfaceStyle": "light",
    "splash": {
      "image": "./assets/Talky_splash.png",
      "resizeMode": "contain",
      "backgroundColor": "#ffffff"
    },
    "assetBundlePatterns": ["**/*"],
    "ios": {
      "supportsTablet": true
    }

  }
}

Here are the dependencies installed :