Many Improvements to Android Project Configuration #3245

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Commits on May 25, 2026

add documentation that gradlew assembleDebug doesnt work anymore, the project requires assembleStandardDebug. UPdated 16kb alignment script to reflect this incase its needed again in the future
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Android project does not need these two fresco dependencies, speeds up gradle sync+build a good bit
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Upgrade android dependencies
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use KTX extension functions on shared preference, removed nullable on always-nonnull type
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now that the dependencies we can update are updated, use gradle versions catalog to pin android dep versions across multiple gradle scripts
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fixed tasks.getByPath event registration in app/build.gradle - this type of thing is depends on the order the tasks (aka methods) are declared in the build script. this removes the warning, but is …
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version catalog resolves aar, dont need
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bump to gradle 8.14.5, we can't switch to gradle 9 until we can update the android gralde plugin, which like so many things here, requires a react native upgrade
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Repositories and gradle configuration was declared at all three levels of the gradle project (app/build.gradle, build.gradle, settings.gradle)
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no need to applynativemodules in app/build.gradle, since settings.gradle applies settings and we autolink react native pkgs into quiet
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