[WIP] JCenter sunset is announced for a May 1st 2021 (and hence 'jcenter()' repository references are removed)

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Related links:

• https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter
• https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/02/jfrog-jcenter-bintray-closure

Quote (from a link above):

May 1st | Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter services will no longer be available

FYI @DrKLO

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Gradle (Android Studio) refresh dependencies action returns some errors (after jcenter() references are removed):

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Related JetBrains ticket: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-261387 Move org.jetbrains.trove4j to MavenCentral

...and related Android Studio ticket: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/179291081 com.android.tools:sdk-common needs to update its dependency on trove4j

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At the moment Gradle refresh against this PR fails for an Android Studio Stable and Beta versions, but Canary saves the day 👀

Details: ./gradlew --refresh-dependencies or Android Studio "Sync project with Gradle files" action (that boils to a same thing) ends up like this:

• Android Stable 4.1.2 / com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.1.2 :x:
• Android 4.2 Beta 4 / com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.2.0-beta04 :x:
• Android Arctic Fox, 2020.3.1 Canary 5 / com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.0.0-alpha05 :heavy_check_mark:

I guess we will have to wait for an Android Studio version 4.1.3 to fix this issue: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/179291081 (I left a few comments there).

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Update: not relevant anymore, hence closing :broom: