Upgrade example app from React Native 0.74 to 0.81#408
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Upgrade example app from React Native 0.74 to 0.81#408
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Upgrade the example app to React Native 0.81.1 to support modern Gradle (9.0.0) and compileSdk 36, which are required for the upcoming Intercom Android SDK 18.0.0 upgrade. Key changes: - React 18 → 19, React Native 0.74 → 0.81.1 - Convert MainActivity and MainApplication from Java to Kotlin - Adopt RN 0.81 Gradle autolinking pattern (settings.gradle) - Enable Hermes JS engine, remove Flipper - Gradle 8.7 → 9.0.0, versionless AGP, Kotlin 2.1.20, NDK 27 - Update iOS Podfile to RN 0.81 conventions with fmt Xcode 26 workaround - minSdkVersion 23 → 24 (required by RN 0.81) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Why?
This upgrade prepares the example app for the upcoming Intercom Android SDK 18.0.0 upgrade, which requires
compileSdk 36andtargetSdk 36. React Native 0.81 ships with these SDK levels by default, making it the minimum RN version compatible with Intercom SDK 18.0.0 on Android.How?
Upgrades the
exampleapp from React Native 0.74 to 0.81.1, including the Java-to-Kotlin migration forMainActivityandMainApplication, updated Gradle/AGP versions (Gradle 9.0.0, AGP 8.11.0), and refreshed iOS Podfile configuration.Generated with Claude Code