Update Android Stripe SDK to v14

[RobertGardner]

The plugin currently uses Stripe Android SDK v10. It needs to be upgraded to v14 (the current latest) to enable support for Google Pay, fix bugs, etc.

[RobertGardner]

Stripe Android SDK v14 is written entirely in Kotlin (the first conversion happened at v13). There seem to be multiple issues accessing Kotlin libraries in NativeScript (or problems with how I'm trying to use it). See NativeScript/android#1604.

Once those are resolved, will resume the upgrade.

[sebj54]

Hi @RobertGardner, do you have an update to share on this? I saw the issue you mentioned has no reply so I guess I already know the answer 😅

I just read the stripe-android's changelog and the currently used version of stripe-android is quite old now. It especially lacks SCA support (correct me if I'm wrong) which would be very interesting. SCA is required for several payments in Europe (see https://stripe.com/payments/strong-customer-authentication).

Do you think it would be a good idea to update stripe-android to version 12.8.2? Like this we won't have to deal with Kotlin.

[RobertGardner]

I would love to see it updated to 12.8.2, but unfortunately, although I said they switched to Kotlin at v13, that's actually when they made the full migration. Stripe started a small migration to Kotlin earlier than that. I have a branch to update to v12.8.2 (for historical reasons named android-12.7), but I have run into Kotlin issues on that and had to stop.

I am hoping that the {N} v7 release, with its migration to V8, will solve the Kotlin problems, but I haven't been able to get the v7 version working yet. Others are working on that, and we're waiting for NativeScript to update their plugin structure guidelines. See bug #126 .

[sebj54]

Thanks for your detailed answer! It's more complicated than I thought :(

I will wait for that v7 update so. Glad to see it is almost ready!

[triniwiz]

@RobertGardner I'll see what I can do to get the latest sdk running for the next major release

[connorsleight]

Would it be possible to add a java intermediate layer between the kotlin code and the plugin? Or will there still be an issue with being able to access the kotlin code?

[triniwiz]

@triniwiz/nativescript-stripe uses 16+