chore: (VL-8413) - react native version upgrade to v0.75.5

Author: michaelavoyan

example/Gemfile

@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ source 'https://rubygems.org'
 # You may use http://rbenv.org/ or https://rvm.io/ to install and use this version
 ruby ">= 2.6.10"
 
-# Cocoapods 1.15 introduced a bug which break the build. We will remove the upper
-# bound in the template on Cocoapods with next React Native release.
-gem 'cocoapods', '>= 1.13', '< 1.16'
-gem 'activesupport', '>= 6.1.7.5', '< 7.2.3'
+# Exclude problematic versions of cocoapods and activesupport that causes build failures.
+gem 'cocoapods', '>= 1.13', '!= 1.15.0', '!= 1.15.1'
+gem 'activesupport', '>= 6.1.7.5', '!= 7.1.0'
+gem 'xcodeproj', '< 1.26.0'
+gem 'concurrent-ruby', '<= 1.3.4'

example/android/app/build.gradle

@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ react {
     //
     //   The list of flags to pass to the Hermes compiler. By default is "-O", "-output-source-map"
     // hermesFlags = ["-O", "-output-source-map"]
+
+  /* Autolinking */
+    autolinkLibrariesWithApp()
 }
 
 /**
@@ -107,7 +110,7 @@ android {
 dependencies {
     // The version of react-native is set by the React Native Gradle Plugin
     implementation("com.facebook.react:react-android")
-    implementation("com.facebook.react:flipper-integration")
+//    implementation("com.facebook.react:flipper-integration")
 
     if (hermesEnabled.toBoolean()) {
         implementation("com.facebook.react:hermes-android")
@@ -116,4 +119,4 @@ dependencies {
     }
 }
 
-apply from: file("../../node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-android/native_modules.gradle"); applyNativeModulesAppBuildGradle(project)
+//apply from: file("../../node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-android/native_modules.gradle"); applyNativeModulesAppBuildGradle(project)

example/android/app/src/main/java/com/vclreactnativeexample/MainApplication.kt

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import com.facebook.react.ReactPackage
 import com.facebook.react.defaults.DefaultNewArchitectureEntryPoint.load
 import com.facebook.react.defaults.DefaultReactHost.getDefaultReactHost
 import com.facebook.react.defaults.DefaultReactNativeHost
-import com.facebook.react.flipper.ReactNativeFlipper
 import com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader
 
 class MainApplication : Application(), ReactApplication {
@@ -40,6 +39,5 @@ class MainApplication : Application(), ReactApplication {
       // If you opted-in for the New Architecture, we load the native entry point for this app.
       load()
     }
-    ReactNativeFlipper.initializeFlipper(this, reactNativeHost.reactInstanceManager)
   }
 }

example/android/build.gradle

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ buildscript {
         minSdkVersion = 24
         compileSdkVersion = 34
         targetSdkVersion = 34
-        ndkVersion = "25.1.8937393"
-        kotlinVersion = "1.9.24"
+        ndkVersion = "26.1.10909125"
+        kotlinVersion = "1.9.25"
     }
     repositories {
         google()

example/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-8.13-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME

example/android/gradlew

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
+pluginManagement { includeBuild("../node_modules/@react-native/gradle-plugin") }
+plugins { id("com.facebook.react.settings") }
+extensions.configure(com.facebook.react.ReactSettingsExtension){ ex -> ex.autolinkLibrariesFromCommand() }
 rootProject.name = 'VclReactNativeExample'
-apply from: file("../node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-android/native_modules.gradle"); applyNativeModulesSettingsGradle(settings)
 include ':app'
 includeBuild('../node_modules/@react-native/gradle-plugin')