Comment by lucb1e

2 days ago

> Are google looking into rolling back the requirement? (this last one sounds unlikely)

That's apparently what they did last time. From the ticket:

"Back in 2021 developers complained that AAPT2 from Gradle Plugin 4.1.0 was throwing errors while the older 4.0.2 worked fine. \n The issue was that 4.1.0 wanted a CPU which supports SSSE3 and on the older CPUs it would fail. \n This was fixed for Gradle Plugin 4.2.0-rc01 / Gradle 7.0.0 alpha 9"