Change cordova plugin for Social Sharing

[fredriksthlm]

Problem description

When we export Cordova applications we use outdated (and deprecated) libraries which should not longer be used. There are new AndroidX-libraries to use instead. This happens when we export with Share-plugin.

Officially Cordova do not longer support the Android Support libraries any longer at all since v10.

The reason for this is that shortercode forked the "original" SocialSharing-plugin (back in Feb 2019!) since the original plugin back then did not work at all with AndroidX. According to Iain his fork should be abandoned when the master was patched.
Which it is, since long time ago.

shortercode/Scirras fork
https://www.npmjs.com/package/cordova-plugin-androidx-socialsharing

The "original"
https://www.npmjs.com/package/cordova-plugin-x-socialsharing

On his github you can clearly see that it now supports AndroidX since a couple of years.
https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/SocialSharing-PhoneGap-Plugin/blob/master/README.md

Steps to reproduce

Create new project.

1. Include the Share plugin.
2. Export for cordova (or Android Studio)
3. View config.xml / config.json

Observed result

The plugin used is:
cordova-plugin-androidx-socialsharing

Expected result

The plugin that now should be used:
cordova-plugin-x-socialsharing

More details

Why is this an issue? Since no one is updating Ians fork, no one will fix any upcoming issues. His fork now uses the very old "Android support libraries" (version 24, from 2018!), which is deprecated since long time ago.
android.support:support-v4:24.1.1

Eddys updated plugin uses the "correct" androidx libraries:
androidx.legacy:legacy-support

Edit: Cordova has officially stated that all plugins now should migrate to the AndroidX library and they no longer support the Android Support Library at all.
https://cordova.apache.org/announcements/2021/07/20/cordova-android-10.0.0.html

You can see additional info on this bug, where shortercode commented it:
EddyVerbruggen/SocialSharing-PhoneGap-Plugin#1034

and also that it is now fixed:
EddyVerbruggen/SocialSharing-PhoneGap-Plugin#1039

With the current fork you get warnings for using old libraries in Android Studio and you can do a migration manually. But this should not be needed for a Construct-export.
Also there has been a lot of bug fixes to the plugin since ians fork, so should really be switched back now.

Affected browsers/platforms:

First affected release:

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[AshleyScirra]

Thanks for the heads up, it does look like things have moved on since the Share plugin was last maintained. I've switched it over to use cordova-plugin-x-socialsharing@6.0.3 on Android for the next beta. (I removed it for iOS, since the Web Share API works in WKWebView and supports files, so there's no need for the Cordova plugin there any more.)