React-native-background-geolocation: Google deprecating many terms from build.gradle at the end of this year. any plan to upgrade the project?

[Shhzdmrz]

Your Environment

RN: 0.57.0
OS: Windows

• Plugin version: 0.5.0-alpha.42
• Platform: Android
• OS version: Windows
• Device manufacturer and model: NOKIA E5
• React Native version: 0.57.0
• Plugin configuration options: N/A
• Link to your project: N/A

Context

Its not a bug but its going to be because deprecation of many terms in android at the end of this year.
http://d.android.com/r/tools/update-dependency-configurations.html

Expected Behavior

Is should not show these warnings.

Actual Behavior

Showing all these warnings.

Possible Fix

Upgrade the projects for the terms mentioned in warnings.

Warnings

_publishNonDefault is deprecated and has no effect anymore. All variants are now published._

WARNING: Configuration 'androidTestCompile' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'androidTestImplementation' and 'androidTestApi'.
It will be removed at the end of 2018. For more information see: http://d.android.com/r/tools/update-dependency-configurations.html

WARNING: Configuration 'androidTestApi' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'androidTestImplementation'.
It will be removed at the end of 2018. For more information see: http://d.android.com/r/tools/update-dependency-configurations.html

WARNING: Configuration 'compile' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'implementation' and 'api'.
It will be removed at the end of 2018. For more information see: http://d.android.com/r/tools/update-dependency-configurations.html

WARNING: Configuration 'testCompile' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'testImplementation' and 'testApi'.
It will be removed at the end of 2018. For more information see: http://d.android.com/r/tools/update-dependency-configurations.html

WARNING: Configuration 'testApi' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'testImplementation'.
It will be removed at the end of 2018. For more information see: http://d.android.com/r/tools/update-dependency-configurations.htmlspath > protos-25.2.3.jar.sha1

WARNING: Configuration 'oreoCompile' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'oreoImplementation' and 'oreoApi'.and 'androidTestApi'.
It will be removed at the end of 2018. For more information see: http://d.android.com/r/tools/update-dependency-configurations.html

[mauron85]

Yes, since RN57 we can move to solely to gradle 4, and removing all those warning all together. But this is currently not top priority. If somebody willing to do it, I don't mind merge such a PR.

[mauron85]

Fixed via https://github.com/mauron85/react-native-background-geolocation/commit/6877313ee8a6ad73b1b4f34cd622b7226b5c0ef9