Will the "Android Gradle Plugin" version be updated?

please excuse the non-templated issue… none of the current options seem appropriate for my query, which specifically relates to the code in this platform project, not my own local app…

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I generated a fresh new Ionic Framework 6 application just now, added cordova-android@10 and generated the native project files. after opening this new project in Android Studio (Bumblebee 2021.1.1 patch 1), I got a recommendation to upgrade “Android Gradle Plugin” from version 4.2.2 to 7.1.1.

this seems wildly outdated… surely cordova-android/framework/cdv-gradle-config-defaults.json line 6 should be updated then? or is there perhaps some reason I’m unaware of for keeping it as is?

[breautek]

It seems massively outdated because google did a versiojn skip from 4.x to 7.x. there is no v5 or v6. And needlessly to say, yes 7.x has breaking changes 😉

Generally these things are sorted out during our major releases. If I recall correctly, 7 X requires java 11 & amd build tools 31, but idk if there are anything else that requires updating.

[jcesarmobile]

It was to avoid the confusion between the gradle plugin version and the gradle wrapper version. They still don’t match to the exact same version, but at least both of them are 7.x now