Gradle 6.9, Android Gradle Plugin 4.2.1 (#31593)

Summary:
Bump Gradle to 6.9 which supports Apple Silicon, also Android Gradle Plugin 4.2.1 which defaults to Java 1.8 so no additional config required.

## Changelog

[Android] [Changed] - Bump Gradle to 6.9, Android Gradle Plugin to 4.2.1

Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/31593

Test Plan: rn-tester builds and runs as expected

Reviewed By: mdvacca

Differential Revision: D28711942

Pulled By: ShikaSD

fbshipit-source-id: 2a4616cd0f17db7616ab29dea1652717f2cd0f6d

ReactAndroid/build.gradle

@@ -380,10 +380,6 @@ task extractJNIFiles {
 android {
     compileSdkVersion 30
     ndkVersion ANDROID_NDK_VERSION
-    compileOptions {
-        sourceCompatibility(JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8)
-        targetCompatibility(JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8)
-    }
 
     defaultConfig {
         minSdkVersion(21)

build.gradle.kts

@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ buildscript {
         }
     }
     dependencies {
-        classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.1.0")
-        classpath("de.undercouch:gradle-download-task:4.0.2")
+        classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.2.1")
+        classpath("de.undercouch:gradle-download-task:4.1.1")
 
         // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
         // in the individual module build.gradle files

gradle.properties

@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4g -XX:MaxPermSize=2048m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
 org.gradle.parallel=true
 
 ANDROID_NDK_VERSION=20.1.5948944
+android.useAndroidX=true

gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.8.3-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.9-all.zip
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists

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

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ buildscript {
         }
     }
     dependencies {
-        classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.1.0")
+        classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.2.1")
     }
 }
 

packages/react-native-codegen/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.7-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.9-all.zip
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists

packages/react-native-codegen/android/gradlePlugin-build/gradlePlugin/build.gradle

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ gradlePlugin {
 }
 
 dependencies {
-    implementation 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.1.0'
+    implementation 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.2.1'
     // Use the same Gson version that `com.android.tools.build:gradle` depends on.
     implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.5'
     implementation 'com.google.guava:guava:29.0-jre'

packages/react-native-gradle-plugin/build.gradle.kts

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 plugins {
   `java-gradle-plugin`
   `kotlin-dsl`
-  kotlin("jvm") version "1.4.21"
+  kotlin("jvm") version "1.4.20"
 }
 
 repositories {
@@ -26,5 +26,5 @@ gradlePlugin {
 }
 
 dependencies {
-  implementation("com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.1.0")
+  implementation("com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.2.1")
 }

packages/rn-tester/android/app/build.gradle

@@ -131,10 +131,7 @@ def useIntlJsc = false
 android {
     compileSdkVersion 29
     ndkVersion ANDROID_NDK_VERSION
-    compileOptions {
-        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
-        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
-    }
+
     dexOptions {
         javaMaxHeapSize "4g"
     }

template/android/app/build.gradle

@@ -125,11 +125,6 @@ android {
 
     compileSdkVersion rootProject.ext.compileSdkVersion
 
-    compileOptions {
-        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
-        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
-    }
-
     defaultConfig {
         applicationId "com.helloworld"
         minSdkVersion rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion

template/android/build.gradle

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ buildscript {
         jcenter()
     }
     dependencies {
-        classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.1.0")
+        classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.2.1")
         // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
         // in the individual module build.gradle files
     }

template/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.8.3-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.9-all.zip
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists

tools/build_defs/oss/rn_defs.bzl

@@ -216,8 +216,8 @@ def rn_robolectric_test(name, srcs, vm_args = None, *args, **kwargs):
         "-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC",  # required by -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled
         "-XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled",
         "-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=150M",
-        "-Drobolectric.dependency.dir=buck-out/gen/ReactAndroid/src/main/third-party/java/robolectric/4.4",
-        "-Dlibraries=buck-out/gen/ReactAndroid/src/main/third-party/java/robolectric/4.4/*.jar",
+        "-Drobolectric.dependency.dir=buck-out/gen/ReactAndroid/src/main/third-party/java/robolectric",
+        "-Dlibraries=buck-out/gen/ReactAndroid/src/main/third-party/java/robolectric/*.jar",
         "-Drobolectric.logging.enabled=true",
         "-XX:MaxPermSize=620m",
         "-Drobolectric.offline=true",