1821005 - Update Gradle to version 8.3 and Android Gradle Plugin to 8.0.2

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Fenix :: General, task, P2)

Description

[Mihai Adrian Carare [:mcarare]]

Release notes:
https://docs.gradle.org/8.0.2/release-notes.html

https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/gradle-plugin#android-gradle-plugin-7.4.2-february-2023

Comment 1

[BMO Github Automation]

Attachment: [mozilla-mobile/firefox-android] Bug 1821005 - Upgrade Mockk to latest version. (#2199)

Comment 2

[BMO Github Automation]

Authored by https://github.com/mcarare
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/f14f447a4d43588d24e4ca3efde0668ddcf7cf08
[main] Bug 1821005 - Upgrade Gradle to 8.3 version.

Authored by https://github.com/mcarare
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/14e8903e922fa22e28450520be3b6152be6a3a8f
[main] Bug 1821005 - Upgrade kotlin-dsl to 4.1.0.

Authored by https://github.com/mcarare
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/fc0fadd63553e2144ce074454d502ecf307eb988
[main] Bug 1821005 - Upgrade AGP to 8.0.2

Authored by https://github.com/mcarare
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/bfd02dd16d7e5c9dbcf34858fbbe4176d698f8cd
[main] Bug 1821005 - Replace deprecated execResult.

Authored by https://github.com/mcarare
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/7adb38a6fbe20de3fdb6723a10e574d183e7fcff
[main] Bug 1821005 - Replace deprecated 'toInt' method with 'code' property.

Authored by https://github.com/mcarare
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/69f2c66aad3aa638a1bab31b2a1e6c597d1f3992
[main] Bug 1821005 - Replace deprecated toLowerCase with lowercase.

Authored by https://github.com/mcarare
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/0239233efb1cc4e896e4aa0337e3da911eeb2f1c
[main] Bug 1821005 - Add namespace to samples-glean-library module

Authored by https://github.com/mcarare
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/65c2b8c63790fbd2352f3f94b99c80d81d18dae1
[main] Bug 1821005 - Enable generation of the BuildConfig class

Authored by https://github.com/mcarare
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/ddbd5e18eb9d2b33b4de4a6df48d97ec4ab42963
[main] Bug 1821005 - Apply plugin: 'kotlin-android' for UI modules.

Authored by https://github.com/mcarare
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/219fbc19c54134ad264edc79642fa1799c6f54d6
[main] Bug 1821005 - Set nonTransitiveRClass and nonFinalResIds build flags to false.

Authored by https://github.com/mcarare
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/13c80944bd1756cdcaa98eef783b6a23ad12cabd
[main] Bug 1821005 - Add uses-feature tag for camera permission.

Authored by https://github.com/mcarare
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/34144c5ad1d62e2d85492f8d32341bbcd032690b
[main] Bug 1821005 - Exclude build in extensions versioning from detekt.

Authored by https://github.com/mcarare
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/f17d2430bf1daabeed2724312354018050f3f52a
[main] Bug 1821005 - Exclude generated metrics docs from detekt.

Authored by https://github.com/mcarare
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/6f880de46ec73f7e5240a0279108bbb6aeb0f63b
[main] Bug 1821005 - Replace deprecated project.buildDir

Authored by https://github.com/mcarare
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/fb21df9d0a9cd585e216733dc1bf929636df20f1
[main] Bug 1821005 - Set compileOptions for android subprojects.

Authored by https://github.com/mcarare
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/41b2a48da577787c3189eec8c8af71c35cfecbfb
[main] Bug 1821005 - Include sourcesJar as an input of publishing.

Authored by https://github.com/mcarare
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/6962bf0b5df57781045f68417f76527bcdf521ab
[main] Bug 1821005 - Set UI_INJECTION_HOST mode for lint in test.

Authored by https://github.com/mcarare
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/8f3f246cc5ff571323f56d46963d8d176bec91e3
[main] Bug 1821005 - Apply additional keep rules for missing classes detected while running R8.

Comment 3

[BMO Github Automation]

Authored by https://github.com/rvandermeulen
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/592e88b3547d2e96ae04d8b5bd69cbab2ac3e97e
[main] Bug 1821005 - Revert Gradle 8 upgrade due to startup crashes

Comment 4

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

This was reverted due to startup crashes seen both in the browsertime tests in our CI environment and experienced by some in the wild. See the #incident-2023-11-08-fenix-nightly-crashes incident channel for more details.

Comment 5

[BMO Github Automation]

Authored by https://github.com/mcarare
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/1fe7239636bf7719025842099b099811738b6b55
[main] Bug 1821005 - Restore reverted Gradle 8 upgrade due to startup crashes"

Authored by https://github.com/mcarare
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/5547691576b653635246e8a19bb00f98a13b2f57
[main] Bug 1821005 - Disable R8 fullMode for Focus and Fenix.