[GitHub] [cordova-android] breautek commented on pull request #1596: feat!: Upgrade to Gradle and AGP 8

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breautek commented on PR #1596:
URL: https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/pull/1596#issuecomment-1510405234

   The [README](https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/blob/master/README.md?plain=1#L35) should be updated to reflect the new JDK requirement.
   
   Part of me would rather wait for AGP 8 support until we intend to support API 34, which is still in beta phase and won't be released until August at the earliest. I see no concrete date in their roadmap for the final release. The rationale for waiting is to defer the JDK 17 upgrade when it's not needed for a future cordova-android@13 release for API 34. I think Cordova should release a version supporting API 33 no later than at the end of July to give the month to users to refactor their own apps.
   
   On the other hand, we do have an issue with M1 macs where it can be rather [difficult](https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/issues/1409#issuecomment-1510008696) to setup due to the current JDK 11 requirement which the only prebuilt JDK available and is provided through Android Studio Electric Eel. Now that Flamingo is released, I presume it ships with JDK 17 which I've seen reports that it doesn't work properly with the Android Tooling (however I haven't confirmed this myself). So having build tools that supports JDK 17 will now give M1 users more options as there are other prebuilt JDK environments available and would be more aligned to our existing documentation.


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