Allow gradle options to be passed to build

Describe the Feature

It would be great if we could include options for the gradle build command, or overwrite them completely

Here is the related source https://github.com/react-native-community/cli/blob/master/packages/platform-android/src/commands/runAndroid/index.ts#L204

This would allow me to disable tests for the build for example

Possible Implementations

function buildApk(gradlew: string, sourceDir: string, replacementGradleBuildArgs: string = undefined) {
  try {
    // using '-x lint' in order to ignore linting errors while building the apk
    const gradleBuildArgs = replacementGradleBuildArgs || ['-x', 'lint'].join(' ');
    const gradleArgs = ['build', gradleBuildArgs];
    logger.info('Building the app...');
    logger.debug(`Running command "${gradlew} ${gradleArgs.join(' ')}"`);
    execa.sync(gradlew, gradleArgs, {stdio: 'inherit', cwd: sourceDir});
  } catch (error) {
    throw new CLIError('Failed to build the app.', error);
  }
}

buildApk(gradlew, androidProject.sourceDir, args.gradleBuildArgs);

Usage:

yarn android --gradleBuildArgs="-x lint -x test"

I would expect to see in the logs:

Running command gradle build -x lint - x test

[adamTrz]

There’s ongoing effort to add custom gradle options with #1729

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