Build fail with cordova-android 11 / AGP 7

[ath0mas]

Expected Behaviour

cordova build should be successful with cordova-android 11 like with previous versions.

Confirmed to be OK with cordova-android 10.1.2.

Actual Behaviour

1: Task failed with an exception.
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* Where:
Script 'C:\cdv-scanner\hello\platforms\android\@red-mobile\cordova-plugin-barcodescanner\hello-barcodescanner.gradle' line: 9

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating script.
> Could not find method compile() for arguments [{name=barcodescanner-release-2.1.7, ext=aar}] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler.

Reproduce Scenario (including but not limited to)

Steps to Reproduce

cordova create hello com.example.hello HelloWorld
cd hello/
cordova platform add android@11.0.0
cordova plugin add @red-mobile/cordova-plugin-barcodescanner
cordova build

Platform and Version (eg. Android 5.0 or iOS 9.2.1)

(Android) What device vendor (e.g. Samsung, HTC, Sony...)

Cordova CLI version and cordova platform version

cordova: 11.0.0
cordova-android: 11.0.0

Plugin version

cordova plugin version | grep @red-mobile/cordova-plugin-barcodescanner: 9.0.7

Sample Code that illustrates the problem

Logs taken while reproducing problem

While building with cordova-android 10.1.2, the following warning is shown:

WARNING:: Configuration 'compile' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'implementation' and 'api'.
It will be removed in version 7.0 of the Android Gradle plugin.
For more information, see http://d.android.com/r/tools/update-dependency-configurations.html.

And yes, cordova-android 11 updated AGP 4.2.2 -> 7.1.0 -> 7.2.1 (see apache/cordova-android#1410 and apache/cordova-android#1446)!

[eh2001]

To those facing Android v11 with build error, edit the file "platforms/android/@red-mobile/cordova-plugin-barcodescanner/app-barcodescanner.gradle", replace the "compile" to "implementation", then build again.

compile(name:'barcodescanner-release-2.1.7', ext:'aar')

to

implementation(name:'barcodescanner-release-2.1.7', ext:'aar')

[ath0mas]

@eh2001 see my PR #6 on this

until review and merge, I published my own fork ns0m/cordova-plugin-ns0m-barcodescanner to npm cordova-plugin-ns0m-barcodescanner
and my v9.1.0 for the issue here