Load Android Gradle Plugin conditionally

[SaeedZhiany]

• Load Android Gradle Plugin conditionally

This wraps the Android Gradle plugin dependency in the buildscripts section of android/build.gradle in a conditional:

if (project == rootProject) {
    // ... (dependency here)
}

The Android Gradle plugin is only required when opening the project stand-alone, not when it is included as a dependency. By doing this, the project opens correctly in Android Studio, and it can also be consumed as a native module dependency from an application project without affecting the app project (avoiding unnecessary downloads/conflicts/etc).

for more info, you can refer to this thread and especially this comment.

• used google() shortcut instead of

maven {
    url 'https://maven.google.com/'
    name 'Google'
}

• used an auxiliary function to read root project gradle config instead of duplicating the code. also reading minSdkVersion from root project.