[BUGFIX][Compile][Android] - backwards-compatible AndroidX dependency

[mikehardy]

I needed this in my project to successfully use this with modern (divergent) numbers for the support libraries - core is at 1.0.2 but support-v4 is at 1.0.0 and media is at 1.0.1 etc.

use 'supportV4Version' in your ext{} block in build.gradle to use it

Assuming this passes CI and is good to go, I'll update the docs repo for changelogs for a 5.5.7 release etc (and I'm traveling back from vacation right now, I could work to shape up a 5.5.7 release and release it if that helps)

This was supposed to be in #2445 but I didn't make a feature branch and clobbered the change 🤦‍♂ I am using this locally in production though

Summary

Checklist

• Supports Android
• Supports iOS
• e2e tests added or updated in /tests/e2e/*
• Updated the documentation in the docs repo
  • LINK TO DOCS PR HERE
• Flow types updated
• Typescript types updated

Test Plan

Release Plan

[CATEGORY][type] [LOCATION] - Message

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[codecov]

Codecov Report

Merging #2476 into v5.x.x will increase coverage by 0.13%.
The diff coverage is n/a.

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##           v5.x.x    #2476      +/-   ##
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+ Coverage   75.89%   76.02%   +0.13%     
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+ Hits         1196     1198       +2     
+ Misses        380      378       -2

[mikehardy]

This is the change I would release as 5.5.7 but it's failing on the android emulator, and I would have the android emulator on it's own port etc except I need help on upgrading the tests project to RN60 #2473 :-), I'm trying though haha

[mikehardy]

I just can't get the android step to complete :-(

[18:03:24] [Step 5/7] detox[71586] ERROR: [exec.js/EXEC_FAIL, #13] "/usr/local/share/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb -s emulator-5554 shell "ps | grep \"com\.invertase\.testing$\""" failed with code = 1, stdout and stderr:

nothing else in the logs

This is needed for RN60 people on v5.5.x though, depending on their library mix

[mikehardy]

This is blocking people in other projects I think. Here's the patch file for use with patch-package (just remove the '.txt' suffix, it is needed for github to attach it)

react-native-firebase+5.5.6.patch.txt