How to use firebase v19.1.1 with react native 0.67.4

[anniewey]

I needed to upgrade to v19 to fix the ios crashing issue in ios 17.2 but upon upgrading android build started to fail.

I'm getting error similar to this #7334 . Looks like it's gradle version compatibility issues but I couldn't get it to work

Execution failed for task ':react-native-firebase_app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac'.

../node_modules/@react-native-firebase/app/android/src/main/java/io/invertase/firebase/common/UniversalFirebaseModule.java:20: error: package android.content does not exist
import android.content.Context;
                      ^
../node_modules/@react-native-firebase/app/android/src/main/java/io/invertase/firebase/common/UniversalFirebaseModule.java:29: error: cannot find symbol
  private final Context context;
                ^
  symbol:   class Context
  location: class UniversalFirebaseModule
../node_modules/@react-native-firebase/app/android/src/main/java/io/invertase/firebase/common/UniversalFirebaseModule.java:32: error: cannot find symbol
  protected UniversalFirebaseModule(Context context, String serviceName) {
                                    ^
...

// build.gradle
buildscript {
    ext {
        buildToolsVersion = "33.0.0"
        minSdkVersion = 23
        compileSdkVersion = 33
        targetSdkVersion = 33
        ndkVersion = "21.4.7075529"
        kotlinVersion = '1.5.10'
    }
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.2.2")
        classpath("com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.15") //max 4.3.15 according to [docs](https://rnfirebase.io/#configure-firebase-with-android-credentials)
        classpath("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlinVersion")
        classpath 'com.google.firebase:firebase-crashlytics-gradle:2.9.9'
    }
}

// gradle-wrapper.properties
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.2-all.zip

What I've tried
Running with classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.2.2|7.3.1") with kotlinVersion = '1.6.20' returning error:

Duplicate class com.google.android.gms.internal.measurement.zzdu found in modules jetified-firebase-analytics-impl-16.1.1-runtime (com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics-impl:16.1.1) and jetified-play-services-measurement-sdk-api-21.6.1-runtime (com.google.android.gms:play-services-measurement-sdk-api:21.6.1)

Duplicate class com.google.android.gms.internal.measurement.zzdv found in modules jetified-firebase-analytics-impl-16.1.1-runtime (com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics-impl:16.1.1) and jetified-play-services-measurement-sdk-api-21.6.1-runtime (com.google.android.gms:play-services-measurement-sdk-api:21.6.1)

...

Manage to get it to build with old config in app/build.gradle

// build.gradle
buildscript {
    ext {
        buildToolsVersion = "33.0.0"
        minSdkVersion = 23
        compileSdkVersion = 33
        targetSdkVersion = 33
        ndkVersion = "21.4.7075529"
        kotlinVersion = '1.6.20'
    }
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.2")
        classpath("com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.15")
        classpath("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlinVersion")
        classpath 'com.google.firebase:firebase-crashlytics-gradle:2.9.9'
    }
}

// gradle-wrapper.properties
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.5-all.zip

// app/build.gradle
implementation "com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:20.0.0"
implementation "com.google.firebase:firebase-core:21.1.1"
implementation "com.google.firebase:firebase-iid:21.1.0"