v3.2 requires us to upgrade the android target & compileSDK

[trm217]

Why exactly does the latest minor release requires new target & compileSDKs?
This leads to a chain of annoying regressions.
Updating to sdk 33, which is required as seen in the screenshot below, requires upgrading gradle (for react-native 0.68), which then in turn causes react-native to throw errors while trying to build the android app.

Edit:
This is the output in the console when trying to build the android app after updating from trackplayer 3.1 -> 3.2

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:checkReleaseAarMetadata'.
> A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.CheckAarMetadataWorkAction
   > One or more issues found when checking AAR metadata values:
     
     The minCompileSdk (33) specified in a
     dependency's AAR metadata (META-INF/com/android/build/gradle/aar-metadata.properties)
     is greater than this module's compileSdkVersion (android-31).
     Dependency: androidx.core:core:1.9.0.
     AAR metadata file: /Users/xyz/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/550d74e359524050e9b04c3f45cde2fc/transformed/core-1.9.0/META-INF/com/android/build/gradle/aar-metadata.properties.
     
     The minCompileSdk (33) specified in a
     dependency's AAR metadata (META-INF/com/android/build/gradle/aar-metadata.properties)
     is greater than this module's compileSdkVersion (android-31).
     Dependency: androidx.core:core-ktx:1.9.0.
     AAR metadata file: /Users/xyz/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/8d8a529919f600dda3dc7899521c3e73/transformed/jetified-core-ktx-1.9.0/META-INF/com/android/build/gradle/aar-metadata.properties.
     
     The minCompileSdk (33) specified in a
     dependency's AAR metadata (META-INF/com/android/build/gradle/aar-metadata.properties)
     is greater than this module's compileSdkVersion (android-31).
     Dependency: androidx.annotation:annotation-experimental:1.3.0.
     AAR metadata file: /Users/xyz/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/c61aa2eeb9b785fe6b671eb83bf6144a/transformed/jetified-annotation-experimental-1.3.0/META-INF/com/android/build/gradle/aar-metadata.properties.
     ```

[SteveWaterfall]

I have only just added react-native-track-player to a project which was already working fine, and so installed version 3.2. My android build also failed as above. I went back to 3.1 but I am still getting the same set of errors. Very strange. I am using Expo with a custom dev client and used EAS build to build. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks

[WrRaThY]

same as above - I just added this dependency and faced the same issue. tried updating target to android 33, but that proved to be too complicated. I tried going down to 3.0 (which resulted in other build errors) and 3.1, which resulted in a correct build!
but... looks like my app is randomly closing even if track-player is only a dep (no associated code anywhere) in version 3.1.
and maybe not entirely randomly - it works fine until I try to play a sound with expo-av.

my goal was actually to rewrite a sound-based approach to RNTP, but maybe the two cannot coexist in the same project?

@SteveWaterfall - not quite sure about your case, but whenever I change the version, reinstall with npm and then rebuild locally - it works as excepted (fails or builds)

[SteveWaterfall]

I am still getting the same errors if I downgrade to 3.1, even on a local build. This is the first time I've used a package with custom code - is there something else I need to do other than reinstall do you know?

[jspizziri]

All you can see more info on this both here and here.

You shouldn't need to update your targetSdk, but only your compileSdk if I'm not mistaken. It's something we're looking into, and discussing the best path forward on internally.

[WrRaThY]

Delete the whole android folder if you have it committed

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