Bump Gradle to 9.4.1

[leotm]

Summary:

Follow-up to

• Bump Gradle to 9.3.1 #55453
  • Bump Gradle to 9.3.1 react-native-community/template#205

Part 1 of Java 26 AGP 9 Kotlin 2.3-4 NDK 28 support #56222

• bump root gradlew
• bump RNGP gradlew
• bump private\helloworld\android gradlew
  • locally fix missing private\helloworld\node_modules\react-native\sdks\hermes-engine\version.properties
• NB: call gradlew twice
  • once for config (gradle-wrapper.properties)
  • twice for binaries (gradlew, gradle-wrapper.jar)
• NB: gradlew.bat bins remain identical to 9.3.1

Changelog:

[ANDROID] [CHANGED] - Gradle to 9.4.1

Test Plan:

• Support Gradle to 9.4, AGP 9.1, Kotlin 2.3, Java 26 #56222
  • RNGP: AGP 9.1 and Kotlin 2.3 thoroughly tested passing (excluding packages/react-native bump for minimality)
• Update Gradle to v9.4.0 leotm/react-native-template-new-architecture#1933
  • CI passing Android build on Kotlin 2 .3 and RNGP upstream patch

[leotm]

unrelated flakey CI test_ios_rntester_dynamic_frameworks (Debug)

[!] CDN: trunk Repo update failed - 12 error(s):
CDN: trunk URL couldn't be downloaded: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/cocoa/Specs/a/9/3/SocketRocket/0.1/SocketRocket.podspec.json Response: Couldn't resolve host name
CDN: trunk URL couldn't be downloaded: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/cocoa/Specs/a/9/3/SocketRocket/0.2.0/SocketRocket.podspec.json Response: Couldn't resolve host name
CDN: trunk URL couldn't be downloaded: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/cocoa/Specs/a/9/3/SocketRocket/0.3.1-beta2/SocketRocket.podspec.json Response: Couldn't resolve host name
CDN: trunk URL couldn't be downloaded: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/cocoa/Specs/a/9/3/SocketRocket/0.4/SocketRocket.podspec.json Response: Couldn't resolve host name
CDN: trunk URL couldn't be downloaded: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/cocoa/Specs/a/9/3/SocketRocket/0.4.1/SocketRocket.podspec.json Response: Couldn't resolve host name
CDN: trunk URL couldn't be downloaded: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/cocoa/Specs/a/9/3/SocketRocket/0.4.2/SocketRocket.podspec.json Response: Couldn't resolve host name
CDN: trunk URL couldn't be downloaded: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/cocoa/Specs/a/9/3/SocketRocket/0.5.0/SocketRocket.podspec.json Response: Couldn't resolve host name
CDN: trunk URL couldn't be downloaded: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/cocoa/Specs/a/9/3/SocketRocket/0.5.1/SocketRocket.podspec.json Response: Couldn't resolve host name
CDN: trunk URL couldn't be downloaded: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/cocoa/Specs/a/9/3/SocketRocket/0.6.0/SocketRocket.podspec.json Response: Couldn't resolve host name
CDN: trunk URL couldn't be downloaded: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/cocoa/Specs/a/9/3/SocketRocket/0.6.1/SocketRocket.podspec.json Response: Couldn't resolve host name
CDN: trunk URL couldn't be downloaded: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/cocoa/Specs/a/9/3/SocketRocket/0.7.0/SocketRocket.podspec.json Response: Couldn't resolve host name
CDN: trunk URL couldn't be downloaded: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/cocoa/Specs/a/9/3/SocketRocket/0.7.1/SocketRocket.podspec.json Response: Couldn't resolve host name
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

[cortinico]

Thanks for this.

@cipolleschi cc for the flaky iOS test.

@leotm can you also send us a PR to update the Gradle version inside the template repo please?

Also cc @hurali97 as this is part of your work.

[meta-codesync]

@cortinico has imported this pull request. If you are a Meta employee, you can view this in D107532804.

[leotm]

sure ^ done

• Bump Gradle to 9.4.1 react-native-community/template#227

[react-native-bot]

This pull request was successfully merged by @leotm in c0ee408

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[meta-codesync]

@cortinico merged this pull request in c0ee408.