React native async storage error: package com.facebook.react.module.annotations does not exist

Anyone familiar with this error when migrating over to Androidx ? The error points to the @react-native-community/async-storage.

error: package com.facebook.react.module.annotations does not exist

I'm running on react-native 0.60.5 and @react-native-community-async-storage 1.6.1

Below is the error message when I run ./gradlew build --stacktrace