Update example applications to the latest version of React & React Native (#588)

* Update the Android app

* Update iOS example app

* Temporarily remove the Windows solution

* Update configs for the latest version of examples

* Do not remove rimraf and copyfiles from examples node modules

* Recreate Windows solution for example app with v0.73

* Fix linting setup for example apps

* Use Java 17 in the CI run for Android

* Remove local environment config file from iOS example project

Author: BartoszKlonowski

.github/workflows/ReactNativeSlider-CI.yml

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/setup-java@v4
         with:
           distribution: 'zulu'
-          java-version: '11'
+          java-version: '17'
 
       - name: Build the Android OS app
         run: cd example/android && ./gradlew assembleDebug

example/.buckconfig

@@ -3,5 +3,7 @@ source 'https://rubygems.org'
 # You may use http://rbenv.org/ or https://rvm.io/ to install and use this version
 ruby ">= 2.6.10"
 
-gem 'cocoapods', '~> 1.13'
-gem 'activesupport', '>= 6.1.7.3', '< 7.1.0'
+# Cocoapods 1.15 introduced a bug which break the build. We will remove the upper
+# bound in the template on Cocoapods with next React Native release.
+gem 'cocoapods', '>= 1.13', '< 1.15'
+gem 'activesupport', '>= 6.1.7.5', '< 7.1.0'

example/.bundle/config

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 apply plugin: "com.android.application"
+apply plugin: "org.jetbrains.kotlin.android"
 apply plugin: "com.facebook.react"
 
 /**
@@ -70,8 +71,8 @@ def jscFlavor = 'org.webkit:android-jsc:+'
 
 android {
     ndkVersion rootProject.ext.ndkVersion
-
-    compileSdkVersion rootProject.ext.compileSdkVersion
+    buildToolsVersion rootProject.ext.buildToolsVersion
+    compileSdk rootProject.ext.compileSdkVersion
 
     namespace "com.example"
     defaultConfig {
@@ -106,13 +107,8 @@ android {
 dependencies {
     // The version of react-native is set by the React Native Gradle Plugin
     implementation("com.facebook.react:react-android")
+    implementation("com.facebook.react:flipper-integration")
 
-    debugImplementation("com.facebook.flipper:flipper:${FLIPPER_VERSION}")
-    debugImplementation("com.facebook.flipper:flipper-network-plugin:${FLIPPER_VERSION}") {
-        exclude group:'com.squareup.okhttp3', module:'okhttp'
-    }
-
-    debugImplementation("com.facebook.flipper:flipper-fresco-plugin:${FLIPPER_VERSION}")
     if (hermesEnabled.toBoolean()) {
         implementation("com.facebook.react:hermes-android")
     } else {