2.8.0 requires project to use androidx

There is a bug/crash in version 2.7.0 that's affecting the production version of our app. I read that this bug was fixed in 2.8.0.

I have tried to update to the 2.8.0 version of Android-Image-Cropper, but it appears you switched to androidx, which would require my entire project to be upgraded to androidx. I cannot do that at this time, but the crash in the 2.7.0 image cropper code is causing big issues in production.

There is nothing in your documentation about requiring androidx to use this library. That's the first step - please update your docs as this took quite a while to narrow down.

Secondly, how can I get this library to work alongside other non-androidx projects?