Update Gradle (#270)

Uses Gradle 8.5.
Enables cache and parallel builds.

.github/workflows/deploy-android.yml

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   android-build:
-    runs-on: macos-14
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     defaults:
       run:
         working-directory: native_gg

native_gg/android/WhatsNew/whatsnew-en-US

@@ -2,4 +2,5 @@ Updated to React Native 0.73.2.
 Expo.
 Use Pnpm.
 Update gradle-action.
-Typescript.
+Typescript.
+Gradle 8.5.

native_gg/android/gradle.properties

@@ -12,10 +12,13 @@
 # Default value: -Xmx512m -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=256m
 org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=512m
 
+# Gradle will try to reuse outputs from previous builds for all builds, unless explicitly disabled with --no-build-cache.
+org.gradle.caching=true
+
 # When configured, Gradle will run in incubating parallel mode.
 # This option should only be used with decoupled projects. More details, visit
 # http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/multi_project_builds.html#sec:decoupled_projects
-# org.gradle.parallel=true
+org.gradle.parallel=true
 
 # AndroidX package structure to make it clearer which packages are bundled with the
 # Android operating system, and which are packaged with your app's APK

native_gg/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.3-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.5-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME

native_gg/android/gradlew

@@ -145,15 +145,15 @@ if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
     case $MAX_FD in #(
       max*)
         # In POSIX sh, ulimit -H is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
-        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
+        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
         MAX_FD=$( ulimit -H -n ) ||
             warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit"
     esac
     case $MAX_FD in  #(
       '' | soft) :;; #(
       *)
         # In POSIX sh, ulimit -n is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
-        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
+        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
         ulimit -n "$MAX_FD" ||
             warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit to $MAX_FD"
     esac
@@ -202,11 +202,11 @@ fi
 # Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
 DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
 
-# Collect all arguments for the java command:
-#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and optsEnvironmentVar are not allowed to contain shell fragments,
-#     and any embedded shellness will be escaped.
-#   * For example: A user cannot expect ${Hostname} to be expanded, as it is an environment variable and will be
-#     treated as '${Hostname}' itself on the command line.
+# Collect all arguments for the java command;
+#   * $DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, $JAVA_OPTS, and $GRADLE_OPTS can contain fragments of
+#     shell script including quotes and variable substitutions, so put them in
+#     double quotes to make sure that they get re-expanded; and
+#   * put everything else in single quotes, so that it's not re-expanded.
 
 set -- \
         "-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME" \

native_gg/android/gradlew.bat

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" setlocal
 
 set DIRNAME=%~dp0
 if "%DIRNAME%"=="" set DIRNAME=.
+@rem This is normally unused
 set APP_BASE_NAME=%~n0
 set APP_HOME=%DIRNAME%