Bring the basic example back to a runnable state

examples/basic/android/app/build.gradle

@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ import com.android.build.OutputFile
  * ]
  */
 
+project.ext.react = [
+    entryFile: "index.android.js",
+    enableHermes: false,
+]
 apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native/react.gradle"
 
 /**
@@ -132,8 +136,8 @@ android {
 
 dependencies {
     implementation project(':react-native-video')
-    implementation "androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.0.0"
     implementation "com.facebook.react:react-native:+"  // From node_modules
+    implementation 'org.webkit:android-jsc:+'
 }
 
 // Run this once to be able to run the application with BUCK

examples/basic/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml

@@ -6,11 +6,7 @@
     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW"/>
 
-    <uses-sdk
-        android:minSdkVersion="16"
-        android:targetSdkVersion="28" />
-
-    <application
+  <application
       android:name=".MainApplication"
       android:allowBackup="true"
       android:label="@string/app_name"

examples/basic/android/build.gradle

@@ -33,5 +33,9 @@ allprojects {
             // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
             url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android"
         }
+        maven {
+            // Android JSC is installed from npm
+            url("$rootDir/../node_modules/jsc-android/dist")
+        }
     }
 }

examples/basic/android/gradle.properties

@@ -17,6 +17,5 @@
 # http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/multi_project_builds.html#sec:decoupled_projects
 # org.gradle.parallel=true
 
-android.useDeprecatedNdk=true
 android.useAndroidX=true
 android.enableJetifier=true