feat(android): 🌟 add support for React Native 0.73

[peterlazar1993]

📢 Type of change

• Bugfix
• New feature
• Enhancement
• Refactoring

💡 Motivation and Context

Starting from React Native v0.73 , all libraries will need to be updated with namespace due to the upgrade to AGP 8
react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals#671

OS	Implemented
iOS	❌
Android	✅

💚 How did you test it?

I tested the changes on RN 0.71.11 and everything works!

📝 Checklist

• I reviewed submitted code
• I added tests to verify changes
• No new PII added or SDK only sends newly added PII if sendDefaultPII is enabled
• All tests passing
• No breaking changes

🔮 Next steps

[krystofwoldrich]

@peterlazar1993 Thank you for the PR. Before we merge, we need to make sure this is compatible with our min-supported RN version 0.65.3.

[fabiendem]

@krystofwoldrich

[...] Thank you for the PR. Before we merge, we need to make sure this is compatible with our min-supported RN version 0.65.3.

Do you folks really need to support RN down to 0.65.3?
RN is no longer maintained below 0.69.x:
https://github.com/reactwg/react-native-releases#releases-support-policy

[krystofwoldrich]

@fabiendem For the v5 we have to and also want to respect semver. In case it's not possible to keep the SDK compatible we might think about bumping the version to v6.

[marandaneto]

You can make that compatible by doing this https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-dart/blob/ddc97adb5918b9f9eda573656e6edd9401b17801/flutter/android/build.gradle#L27-L30

[krystofwoldrich]

@marandaneto Awesome, thank you for sharing that.

[krystofwoldrich]

RN 0.65.0 shipped with AGP 4.2.1 so we actually can just add the namespace it should not be a problem.

[krystofwoldrich]

Based on this comment from the RN proposal we will have to keep the package in the AndroidManifest to ensure RN CLI in older versions recognize the sentry package.

[krystofwoldrich]

Successful CI

Thank you @peterlazar1993 for the PR.

[anurag-hugo]

hey @krystofwoldrich. We have upgraded our react-native version to 0.72.1 and Sentry started throwing an error during the Android app build because of the missing namespace. When is the next release planned?
Thank you.

[krystofwoldrich]

@anurag-hugo The next release will be in the upcoming days.