Disable Jetifier

[MGaetan89]

Summary

This PR disables Jetifier. This was used to convert old Android Support Libraries to AndroidX. Nowadays, AndroidX has become the standard, and Android Support Libraries are (almost?) no longer used.

Also, disabling Jetifier improves build times:

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Build: https://github.com/facebook/litho/actions/runs/15437928666

This PR

Build: https://github.com/facebook/litho/actions/runs/15438697966?pr=1059

Changelog

Disable Jetifier.

Test Plan

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[MGaetan89]

@zielinskimz this PR should improve build times by disabling Jetifier.

[MGaetan89]

@zielinskimz this PR should improve build times by disabling Jetifier.

And in case you missed them, I also have the following PRs ready:

• Remove Apache HTTP dependency #1049
• Fix Gradle warnings #1053
• Replace jcenter with mavenCentral #1054
• Update the ci and docs workflows #1058

[zielinskimz]

I wonder if it's possible that the project compiles fine but crashes at runtime if some 3rd party dependency still relies on the old support library.
Maybe we should use https://github.com/plnice/can-i-drop-jetifier or https://github.com/dipien/bye-bye-jetifier to check if the jetifier can be safely dropped?

[MGaetan89]

I wonder if it's possible that the project compiles fine but crashes at runtime if some 3rd party dependency still relies on the old support library. Maybe we should use plnice/can-i-drop-jetifier or dipien/bye-bye-jetifier to check if the jetifier can be safely dropped?

Actually, Android Studio provides this feature out of the box. If you open the "Build" panel, select "Warnings" > "Jetifier" and run the check, you should get:

Also, the plnice/can-i-drop-jetifier plugin is deprecated in favor of the native ./gradlew checkJetifier task, which also says that Jetifier is not needed anymore.

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@zielinskimz merged this pull request in 414767b.

[zielinskimz]

Thank you!