40610 Enable the resource shrinker

40900 Stop using deprecated features from Gradle

40925 Use AndroidX in new projects by default

41142 Add embedding as API dependency instead of compile only dependency

41251 Migrate examples and tests to AndroidX

41254 Test that flutter assets are contained in the APK

41885 Include embedding transitive dependencies in plugins

41942 Use mergeResourcesProvider instead of deprecated mergeResources

42022 Fix smoke test

42306 Ensure that flutter assets are copied in the AAR

42352 Add android.permission.WAKE_LOCK permission to abstract_method_smoke_test

42360 Add smoke test for the new Android embedding