Use React Native and Hermes modules from Maven

We no longer need to publish these binaries because React Native team is publishing React Native binaries to Maven.

packages/react-native-aztec/android/build.gradle

@@ -75,13 +75,7 @@ repositories {
     }
     maven { url "https://a8c-libs.s3.amazonaws.com/android/react-native-mirror" }
     google()
-    mavenCentral {
-        // We don't want to fetch react-native from Maven Central as there are
-        // older versions over there.
-        content {
-            excludeGroup "com.facebook.react"
-        }
-    }
+    mavenCentral()
 }
 
 dependencies {
@@ -100,7 +94,7 @@ dependencies {
 
     def rnVersion = readReactNativeVersion('../../../package.json', 'devDependencies')
     println "react-native version for react-native-aztec: $rnVersion"
-    implementation "com.facebook.react:react-native:$rnVersion"
+    implementation "com.facebook.react:react-android:$rnVersion"
 }
 
 project.afterEvaluate {

packages/react-native-bridge/android/build.gradle

@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ plugins {
 
 allprojects {
     repositories {
+        mavenCentral()
+        // Starting from React Native 0.70, we no longer need to publish React Native binaries
+        // because they are already published to Maven (reference: https://t.ly/Biea).
+        // However, the third-party dependencies from forked repositories still point to older
+        // versions of React Native, hence we need to keep this Maven repository.
         maven { url "https://a8c-libs.s3.amazonaws.com/android/react-native-mirror" }
     }
 }

packages/react-native-bridge/android/react-native-bridge/build.gradle

@@ -47,13 +47,7 @@ repositories {
     maven { url "https://a8c-libs.s3.amazonaws.com/android" }
     maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
     google()
-    mavenCentral {
-        // We don't want to fetch react-native from Maven Central as there are
-        // older versions over there.
-        content {
-            excludeGroup "com.facebook.react"
-        }
-    }
+    mavenCentral()
 }
 
 dependencies {
@@ -68,7 +62,7 @@ dependencies {
     println "react-native version for react-native-bridge: $rnVersion"
     def packageJson = '../../../react-native-editor/package.json'
 
-    implementation "com.facebook.react:react-native:$rnVersion"
+    implementation "com.facebook.react:react-android:$rnVersion"
     implementation "com.github.wordpress-mobile:react-native-video:${extractPackageVersion(packageJson, 'react-native-video', 'dependencies')}"
     implementation "com.github.wordpress-mobile:react-native-linear-gradient:${extractPackageVersion(packageJson, 'react-native-linear-gradient', 'dependencies')}"
     implementation "com.github.wordpress-mobile:react-native-slider:${extractPackageVersion(packageJson, '@react-native-community/slider', 'dependencies')}"
@@ -93,9 +87,7 @@ dependencies {
     implementation "$reactNativeLibrariesGroupId:react-native-clipboard:${extractPackageVersion(packageJson, '@react-native-clipboard/clipboard', 'dependencies')}"
     implementation "$reactNativeLibrariesGroupId:react-native-fast-image:${extractPackageVersion(packageJson, 'react-native-fast-image', 'dependencies')}"
 
-    runtimeOnly("com.facebook.react:hermes-engine:$rnVersion", {
-        exclude group:'com.facebook.fbjni'
-    })
+    runtimeOnly "com.facebook.react:hermes-android:$rnVersion"
 
     if (willPublishReactNativeBridgeBinary) {
         implementation "org.wordpress-mobile.gutenberg-mobile:react-native-aztec:$reactNativeAztecVersion"

packages/react-native-editor/android/app/build.gradle

@@ -127,8 +127,8 @@ dependencies {
 
     implementation "org.wordpress-mobile.gutenberg-mobile:react-native-bridge"
     implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.2.0'
-    //noinspection GradleDynamicVersion
-    implementation "com.facebook.react:react-native:${extractPackageVersion(packageJson, 'react-native', 'dependencies')}"
+    // The version of react-native is set by the React Native Gradle Plugin
+    implementation "com.facebook.react:react-android"
 
     implementation "androidx.swiperefreshlayout:swiperefreshlayout:1.0.0"
 
@@ -155,10 +155,9 @@ dependencies {
     implementation "$reactNativeLibrariesGroupId:react-native-masked-view:${extractPackageVersion(packageJson, '@react-native-masked-view/masked-view', 'dependencies')}"
     implementation "$reactNativeLibrariesGroupId:react-native-clipboard:${extractPackageVersion(packageJson, '@react-native-clipboard/clipboard', 'dependencies')}"
     implementation "$reactNativeLibrariesGroupId:react-native-fast-image:${extractPackageVersion(packageJson, 'react-native-fast-image', 'dependencies')}"
-
-    implementation("com.facebook.react:hermes-engine:${extractPackageVersion(packageJson, 'react-native', 'dependencies')}") {
-        exclude group:'com.facebook.fbjni'
-    }
+
+    // The version of react-native is set by the React Native Gradle Plugin
+    implementation "com.facebook.react:hermes-android"
 
     debugImplementation("com.facebook.flipper:flipper:${FLIPPER_VERSION}") {
         exclude group:'com.facebook.fbjni'

packages/react-native-editor/android/build.gradle

@@ -24,13 +24,7 @@ buildscript {
 
 allprojects {
     repositories {
-        mavenCentral {
-            // We don't want to fetch react-native from Maven Central as there are
-            // older versions over there.
-            content {
-                excludeGroup "com.facebook.react"
-            }
-        }
+        mavenCentral()
         mavenLocal()
         maven {
             url "https://a8c-libs.s3.amazonaws.com/android"
@@ -41,7 +35,6 @@ allprojects {
                 includeGroupByRegex "org.wordpress-mobile.react-native-libraries.*"
             }
         }
-        maven { url "https://a8c-libs.s3.amazonaws.com/android/react-native-mirror" }
         maven { url 'https://www.jitpack.io' }
         google()
     }