Comment 12 for bug 1820513

Feedback on #2 is contained in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gradle/+bug/1820389. As far as I can tell the blocker regressions are gone. However there is still the issue of the missing alternative dependency declaration: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gradle/+bug/1797761

I cannot tell much about #1, but if someone defines a test procedure I'm happy to help testing. I'd really like to use an Ubuntu/Debian toolchain in future. However I think the libgradle-android-plugin-java package (Android Gradle plugin) is very outdated. I've opened https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/android-platform-tools-base/+bug/1821073 about this.