Changes needed for gradle 3.0.1 compatibility

[pacamara]

Some minor changes are needed for gradle 3.0.1 compatibility: in android/build.gradle:

• Remove the buildToolsVersion, gradle now specifies a default and the current value conflicts with that.
• Declare dependencies using api not compile per https://developer.android.com/studio/build/gradle-plugin-3-0-0-migration.html#new_configurations

We are currently hacking these changes with a script in status.im, and would rather it is fixed upstream. Thanks!

Parent issue: https://github.com/status-im/status-react/issues/3037

[4ian]

Thanks for opening the issue :) Is there any change that this could break compilation of Gradle version 2.x? It seems that api is only supported since Gradle 3?

[pacamara]

Yes, it turns out to be a breaking change for apps authored with react-native init, requiring manual changes to the generated code to fix. Please see discussion at https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-svg/issues/581#issuecomment-359192907 A solution could be to provide a separate gradle 3 tag?

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