[HOLD for payment 2024-08-19] HybridApp fails to deploy due to `react-native-image-size` Gradle dependencies

[marcaaron]

Problem

Slack thread: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C07J32337/p1723060725518079

HybridApp deploys are failing with:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred configuring project ':react-native-image-size'.
> Could not determine the dependencies of null.
   > Could not resolve all task dependencies for configuration ':react-native-image-size:classpath'.
      > Could not find com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.3.
        Searched in the following locations:
          - https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/android/tools/build/gradle/2.3.3/gradle-2.3.3.pom
          - https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/android/tools/build/gradle/2.3.3/gradle-2.3.3.pom
        Required by:
            project :react-native-image-size

Solution

Seems like we are trying to get a Gradle version that is not available. This problem previously occurred here and was fixed in a similar way to how we fixed it last time by @roryabraham in this PR

Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @johncschuster

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @johncschuster (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

[roryabraham]

Did that gradle version change in our fork fix this problem?

[marcaaron]

It did, but a new problem manifested. See @Julesssss notes starting here.