Upgrade React Native from 0.70.6 to 0.71.0-rc.5

[leotm]

Removed until rdy2go (details: #1133)

    "react-native-gesture-handler": "2.8.0",
    "react-native-reanimated": "3.0.0-rc.8",
    "react-native-safe-area-context": "4.4.1",
    "react-native-screens": "3.18.2"

Issues

• Close: React Native 0.71.0-rc.5 #1133
• Close: AGP 7.3+ #1094
• Close: cmake_minimum_required 3.18.1 #1164
• Close: Use @tsconfig/react-native v2 #732
• Close: ⚠ Renovate Dependency Dashboard Hermes Gradle warning #1285

PRs

• Unblocks: Update dependency com.android.tools.build:gradle to v7.3.1 - autoclosed #988
• Unblocks: Update dependency react-native-gradle-plugin to v0.71.12 - autoclosed #1001
• Unblocks: Update dependency flipper-server to v0.273.0 #1085 (potentially)
• Unblocks: Update dependency @react-native-community/datetimepicker to v6.7.5 - autoclosed #1021 (potentially)
• Close: Extend recommended @tsconfig/react-native v2 #733

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Locally: JDK 19 + Gradle 7.6 + RN CLI ✅ Gradle Wrapper ❌
CI: JDK 18 + Gradle 7.6 + Gradle Wrapper ❌

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:mergeDexRelease'.
> A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.DexMergingTaskDelegate
   > There was a failure while executing work items
      > A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.DexMergingWorkAction
         > com.android.builder.dexing.DexArchiveMergerException: Error while merging dex archives: 
           Learn how to resolve the issue at https://developer.android.com/studio/build/dependencies#duplicate_classes.
           Type com.facebook.react.viewmanagers.ActivityIndicatorViewManagerInterface is defined multiple times: /home/runner/work/react-native-template-new-architecture/react-native-template-new-architecture/android/app/build/intermediates/project_dex_archive/release/out/com/facebook/react/viewmanagers/ActivityIndicatorViewManagerInterface.dex, /home/runner/work/react-native-template-new-architecture/react-native-template-new-architecture/android/app/build/intermediates/external_libs_dex/release/mergeExtDexRelease/classes.dex

Local (left) CI (right)

nb

C/C++: CMake Warning at /usr/local/lib/android/sdk/ndk/<23/25>/build/cmake/android-legacy.toolchain.cmake:415 (message):
C/C++:   An old version of CMake is being used that cannot automatically detect
C/C++:   compiler attributes.  Compiler identification is being bypassed.  Some
C/C++:   values may be wrong or missing.  Update to CMake 3.19 or newer to use
C/C++:   CMake's built-in compiler identification.

nb: gradle-7.5.1 only officially supports Java 18

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fixed cause in 442fb86 affecting

    "@react-native-async-storage/async-storage": "1.17.11",
    "@react-native-community/checkbox": "0.5.14",
    "@react-native-community/datetimepicker": "6.3.5",
    "@react-native-community/slider": "4.4.0",

also then affected by JDK 18/19 +/- Gradle 7.5.1/7.6