feat: upgrade example to react native 0.83

Author: sAleksovski

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## Changed
+
+- Update example app to React Native 0.83
+
 ## [0.17.3] - 2026-01-03
 
 ## Fixed

example/android/app/src/main/java/com/androidwidgetexample/MainApplication.kt

@@ -12,25 +12,16 @@ import com.facebook.react.defaults.DefaultReactNativeHost
 
 class MainApplication : Application(), ReactApplication {
 
-  override val reactNativeHost: ReactNativeHost =
-    object : DefaultReactNativeHost(this) {
-      override fun getPackages(): List<ReactPackage> =
+  override val reactHost: ReactHost by lazy {
+    getDefaultReactHost(
+      context = applicationContext,
+      packageList =
         PackageList(this).packages.apply {
           // Packages that cannot be autolinked yet can be added manually here, for example:
           // add(MyReactNativePackage())
-        }
-
-      override fun getJSMainModuleName(): String = "index"
-
-      override fun getUseDeveloperSupport(): Boolean = BuildConfig.DEBUG
-
-      override val isNewArchEnabled: Boolean = BuildConfig.IS_NEW_ARCHITECTURE_ENABLED
-      override val isHermesEnabled: Boolean = BuildConfig.IS_HERMES_ENABLED
-
-    }
-
-  override val reactHost: ReactHost
-    get() = getDefaultReactHost(applicationContext, reactNativeHost)
+        },
+    )
+  }
 
   override fun onCreate() {
     super.onCreate()

example/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.14.3-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.0.0-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME

example/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
     "@react-native-async-storage/async-storage": "^2.0.0",
     "@react-navigation/native": "^6.1.14",
     "@react-navigation/native-stack": "^6.9.22",
-    "react": "19.1.0",
-    "react-native": "0.81.4",
+    "react": "19.2.0",
+    "react-native": "0.83.0",
     "react-native-safe-area-context": "^5.5.2",
     "react-native-screens": "^4.16.0"
   },
@@ -26,10 +26,10 @@
     "@react-native-community/cli": "20.0.0",
     "@react-native-community/cli-platform-android": "20.0.0",
     "@react-native-community/cli-platform-ios": "20.0.0",
-    "@react-native/babel-preset": "0.81.4",
-    "@react-native/eslint-config": "0.81.4",
-    "@react-native/metro-config": "0.81.4",
-    "@react-native/typescript-config": "0.81.4",
+    "@react-native/babel-preset": "0.83.0",
+    "@react-native/eslint-config": "0.83.0",
+    "@react-native/metro-config": "0.83.0",
+    "@react-native/typescript-config": "0.83.0",
     "babel-plugin-module-resolver": "^4.1.0"
   },
   "engines": {