bazelbuild / bazelbuild/rules_android
Feature Request: Update Android databinding jars to 7.0+
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Description
### Description of the feature request:
Bazel's current dependency on databinding is quite old and can be updated to latest databinding version which is backwards compatible with existing code and does not require migrations.
Secondly due to the way databinding libraries are imported currently it is not possible to update databinding libraries without updating Bazel and android_tools.
### What underlying problem are you trying to solve with this feature?
Use recent of databinding which includes bug fixes.
### Which operating system are you running Bazel on?
MacOS Monterey 12.4
### What is the output of `bazel info release`?
development version
### If `bazel info release` returns `development version` or `(@non-git)`, tell us how you built Bazel.
Branched off from `6.0.0-pre.20220517.1` tag and built from source
### What's the output of `git remote get-url origin; git rev-parse master; git rev-parse HEAD` ?
```text
e3f319e19dc4e828c78b76cab8aaea3f38b488e8
```
### Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?
https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/2694
https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/pull/11629
### Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?
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