Support of the gradle 7x (#1937)

* #1925 added support of the gradle 7x
* switched to the legacy native libs packaging
* #1925 switched to the legacy native libs packaging
Co-authored-by: Michael Paschenko <mpaschenko@gmail.com>

app/build.gradle

@@ -52,6 +52,11 @@ android {
         ndk {
             abiFilters "armeabi-v7a", "x86", "x86_64", "arm64-v8a"
         }
+        packagingOptions {
+            jniLibs {
+                useLegacyPackaging true
+            }
+        }
     }
     flavorDimensions "targetting"
 

app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
         android:required="false" />
 
     <application
+        android:extractNativeLibs="true"
         android:name=".App"
         android:allowBackup="false"
         android:hardwareAccelerated="true"

build.gradle

@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ buildscript {
         // don't do that. add that repository to app/build.gradle
     }
     dependencies {
-        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.5.4' //NB - there is an issue with newer versions of gradle. The APK balloons out, so far haven't diagnosed why.
+        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.2.2'
+        //NB - there is an issue with newer versions of gradle. The APK balloons out, so far haven't diagnosed why.
         //If you want to try upgrading gradle plugin past 3.5.4 you will need to also diagnose the APK ballooning issue.
         classpath "io.realm:realm-gradle-plugin:10.5.0"
         // WARNING WARNING WARNING

dmz/build.gradle

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ dependencies {
     implementation group: 'io.reactivex.rxjava2', name: 'rxjava', version: '2.1.12'
     implementation group: 'org.apache.commons', name: 'commons-io', version: '1.3.2'
 
-    testCompile("junit:junit")
+    testImplementation("junit:junit")
     implementation project(path: ':lib')
 }
 

gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.5-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.7.1-all.zip