feat(android): change java version to 17 to support RN 0.73+

[kesha-antonov]

Summary

Hi

Based on react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals#671

to support RN 0.73+ we have to use java 17

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[RyanLRKuhn]

Can we get this merged in? This library still does not work for Gradle 8.3+ and RN 73.

[grifotv]

Would this be related to this build error mentioned here?

A problem occurred evaluating project ':app'.
> Failed to apply plugin 'com.facebook.react'.
   > The value for property 'languageVersion' is final and cannot be changed any further.

[RyanLRKuhn]

Would this be related to this build error mentioned here?

A problem occurred evaluating project ':app'.
> Failed to apply plugin 'com.facebook.react'.
   > The value for property 'languageVersion' is final and cannot be changed any further.

I hope so 😅 That's the error I get trying to use the analytics SDK. I've tried patching the library and looked into all possible causes and can't find any explicit issues with this SDK. Despite all that I still cannot use this library. I'm hoping this PR helps resolve the issue but can't be certain since I can't pinpoint the exact problem.

[Mercy811]

Hi @kesha-antonov, Amplitude's React Native package has compile options set to Java 8. It can run within an app using Java 17 because of Java is backward compatible. Updating to Java 17 seems to be required only to app developers but not library developers.