Require support for gradel 8 (react-native 0.72.3)

[AdarshJais]

Currently, this library might be using transformApi which has been removed from grade 8 and hence incremental build breaks.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong:
  A problem occurred configuring project ':app'.

Failed to notify project evaluation listener.
Could not create task ':app:transformClassesAndResourcesWithProguardTransformForRelease'.
> Cannot use @TaskAction annotation on method IncrementalTransformTask.transform() because interface org.gradle.api.tasks.incremental.IncrementalTaskInputs is not a valid parameter to an action method.
The configured variant 'release' does not exist

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android>build.gradel
// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.

buildscript {
ext {
buildToolsVersion = "33.0.0"
minSdkVersion = 21
compileSdkVersion = 33
targetSdkVersion = 33

    // We use NDK 23 which has both M1 support and is the side-by-side NDK version from AGP.
    ndkVersion = "23.1.7779620"
}
repositories {
    google()
    mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
    classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle")
    classpath("com.facebook.react:react-native-gradle-plugin")
    classpath 'com.guardsquare:proguard-gradle:7.1.0'
}

}

---

android>app>builld.gradel

apply plugin: "com.android.application"
apply plugin: "com.facebook.react"
apply plugin: 'com.guardsquare.proguard'

react {
}

/**

• Set this to true to Run Proguard on Release builds to minify the Java bytecode.
  */
  def enableProguardInReleaseBuilds = false

def jscFlavor = 'org.webkit:android-jsc:+'

android {
ndkVersion rootProject.ext.ndkVersion

compileSdkVersion rootProject.ext.compileSdkVersion

namespace "com.rn_and_nativebase"
defaultConfig {
    applicationId "com.rn_and_nativebase"
    minSdkVersion rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
    targetSdkVersion rootProject.ext.targetSdkVersion
    versionCode 1
    versionName "1.0"
}
signingConfigs {
    debug {
        storeFile file('debug.keystore')
        storePassword 'android'
        keyAlias 'androiddebugkey'
        keyPassword 'android'
    }
}
buildTypes {
    debug {
        signingConfig signingConfigs.debug
    }
    release {
        minifyEnabled false
        signingConfig signingConfigs.debug
    }
}

}
proguard {
configurations {
release {
defaultConfiguration 'proguard-android-optimize.txt'
configuration 'proguard-rules.pro'
}
}
}

dependencies {
implementation("com.facebook.react:react-android")

debugImplementation("com.facebook.flipper:flipper:${FLIPPER_VERSION}")
debugImplementation("com.facebook.flipper:flipper-network-plugin:${FLIPPER_VERSION}") {
    exclude group:'com.squareup.okhttp3', module:'okhttp'
}

debugImplementation("com.facebook.flipper:flipper-fresco-plugin:${FLIPPER_VERSION}")
if (hermesEnabled.toBoolean()) {
    implementation("com.facebook.react:hermes-android")
} else {
    implementation jscFlavor
}

}

apply from: file("../../node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-android/native_modules.gradle"); applyNativeModulesAppBuildGradle(project)

• Current Workaround: android.experimental.legacyTransform.forceNonIncremental=true inside gradel properties which indeed force not to use the incremental build but it has many drawbacks and is not a good practice.

[mrjameshamilton]

ProGuard Gradle plugin doesn't support AGP8; there are currently no immediate plans to support it but there is an existing issue to track it (#280) so I'll close this issue. The default shrinker in Android now is R8, which is compatible with ProGuard configuration.