Revert "Revert "Gradle 6.9, Android Gradle Plugin 4.2.1 (#31593)""

This reverts commit a10a201.

Author: kelset

ReactAndroid/build.gradle

@@ -385,10 +385,6 @@ task installArchives {
 android {
     compileSdkVersion 30
     ndkVersion ANDROID_NDK_VERSION
-    compileOptions {
-        sourceCompatibility(JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8)
-        targetCompatibility(JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8)
-    }
 
     defaultConfig {
         minSdkVersion(21)

build.gradle.kts

@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ buildscript {
         mavenCentral()
     }
     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

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ buildscript {
         mavenCentral()
     }
     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