fix(android): avoid Flutter 3.44+ KGP warning and support AGP 9 (#492)

[DennisAlund]

Fixes #492.

Problem

On Flutter 3.44+, an app depending on this plugin gets:

WARNING: Your app uses the following plugins that apply Kotlin Gradle Plugin (KGP): facebook_app_events
Future versions of Flutter will fail to build if your app uses plugins that apply KGP.

Flutter detects this with a static text scan of each plugin's android/build.gradle (detectApplyingKotlinGradlePlugin / kgpRegexGroovy in FlutterPluginUtils.kt). The scan matches only the DSL forms — apply plugin: "kotlin-android" and plugins { id "kotlin-android" }. The previous AGP-9 conditional guard (0.27.1–0.27.2) did not silence the warning, because the scan ignores the surrounding if and matches the literal apply plugin: text regardless. The hard failure arrives with AGP 9, which removed support for plugins applying KGP.

Fix

Apply KGP only on AGP < 9, via the imperative form Flutter's scan does not flag:

def agpMajor = com.android.Version.ANDROID_GRADLE_PLUGIN_VERSION.tokenize('.')[0] as int
if (agpMajor < 9) {
    project.pluginManager.apply("kotlin-android")
}

On AGP 9 (and Flutter ≥ 3.44 generally), Flutter's Built-in Kotlin supplies KGP, so the plugin doesn't apply it. kotlinOptions { jvmTarget } is replaced by the kotlin { compilerOptions { jvmTarget } } DSL, and the redundant KGP buildscript classpath is dropped (the consuming app's settings.gradle provides KGP). This supersedes the AGP-9 / android.builtInKotlin guard from 0.27.1–0.27.2.

Why not bump the minimum Flutter SDK to 3.44?

The official guide's primary path bumps the plugin to flutter: ">=3.44.0". We deliberately did not — that would be a second consecutive min-SDK raise (0.29.0 just moved to 3.38), forcing consumers onto a stable that's days old. For comparison, flutter_facebook_auth (7.1.7) is still at >=3.38.0 and hasn't migrated. This fix resolves the warning and AGP-9 safety while keeping flutter: ">=3.38.0" unchanged.

Notes / trade-offs

• Imperative apply is sanctioned, not a hack: it's the same imperative apply the official KTS backwards-compat guide uses (apply(plugin = ...)), which the Kotlin scan also doesn't match. The (low) risk is that a future Flutter could extend the scan to imperative applies.
• The example app is intentionally unchanged. It still applies id "kotlin-android" so it builds on Flutter 3.38. Building the example on 3.44+ will show the separate app-level warning about the example app itself — but the plugin no longer appears in the "plugins that apply KGP" list, which is what [Bug]: Migrate Plugin to Built-in Kotlin to prevent future build failures #492 reports.

Verification

• ✅ flutter test — 63/63 pass, including a new regression guard (test/android_build_gradle_test.dart) that fails if a DSL-form KGP apply is reintroduced into the plugin's build.gradle.
• The full Android Gradle build is exercised by CI.

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CI (added in this PR)

Per discussion, the build confirmation is now DRY: a reusable workflow (.github/workflows/build-verify.yml, on: workflow_call) is the single source of truth, called by both pr_acceptance.yml and build_deploy.yml via uses:. The previously-duplicated Android build + dart tests (which lived in both files and could drift) are gone. iOS is opt-in — off for PRs (macOS cost), on for the release pipeline.

It adds a bounded Android matrix anchored on support endpoints / behavioral breakpoints, not the version cross-product:

Cell	Flutter	AGP	Gates?	Exercises
floor	3.38.0	8.x	✅	agpMajor < 9 path on the minimum SDK
stable	latest	8.x	✅	current toolchain (where #492 reproduced)
AGP 9	latest	9.1.x	⚠️ continue-on-error	agpMajor >= 9 / Built-in Kotlin branch

The AGP-9 cell flips AGP→9.1.1 + Gradle→9.1.0 and migrates the example for Built-in Kotlin; it's continue-on-error (a forward-looking signal, not a gate) until the AGP 9 / Flutter toolchain stabilises.

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Pull request overview

This PR updates the plugin’s Android Gradle configuration to stop triggering Flutter 3.44+ “plugin applies Kotlin Gradle Plugin (KGP)” warnings and to align with Flutter’s Built-in Kotlin direction, while shipping the change as a patch release (0.30.1).

Changes:

• Android: switch KGP application to an imperative pluginManager.apply(...) path (instead of DSL forms) and move JVM target configuration to the newer kotlin { compilerOptions { ... } } DSL.
• Tests: add a regression test that fails if DSL-form KGP application strings are reintroduced into android/build.gradle.
• Release bookkeeping: bump versions in pubspec.yaml and ios/facebook_app_events.podspec, and add a 0.30.1 changelog entry.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
android/build.gradle	Changes how/when KGP is applied and updates Kotlin compiler options configuration.
test/android_build_gradle_test.dart	Adds a regression test preventing reintroduction of Flutter-detected DSL KGP apply patterns.
pubspec.yaml	Bumps package version to 0.30.1.
ios/facebook_app_events.podspec	Keeps CocoaPods spec version in sync with pubspec (0.30.1).
CHANGELOG.md	Documents the 0.30.1 Android change and links to issue #492.

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