fix: brownfield Gradle Plugin not to depend on *UpdatesResources task from expo-updates if absent

[artus9033]

Summary

If using Expo and expo-updates is absent, the following error will be thrown:

■  * What went wrong:
│  Could not determine the dependencies of task ':brownfieldlib:preReleaseBuild'.
│  > Task with path ':app:createReleaseUpdatesResources' not found in project ':brownfieldlib'.

The solution is to depend on it only if it exists to cover use cases without expo-updates.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR updates the Brownfield Gradle plugin to avoid hard-depending on Expo Updates’ *UpdatesResources task when that task is not present, preventing Gradle task dependency resolution failures in Expo projects that don’t include expo-updates.

Changes:

• Make the plugin’s dependency on create<Variant>UpdatesResources conditional on the task actually existing.
• Bump the Brownfield Gradle plugin version (and related snapshot/version references) from 2.0.0-alpha02 to 2.0.0-alpha03.
• Add a changeset entry for the patch and update release-notes test fixtures for the new version tag.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
scripts/tests/generate-brownfield-gradle-plugin-release-notes.test.ts	Updates prerelease tag fixture and formatting to reflect the new alpha version.
packages/react-native-brownfield/src/expo-config-plugin/android/utils/constants.ts	Bumps the referenced Gradle plugin version used by the Expo config plugin.
gradle-plugins/react/brownfield/src/main/kotlin/com/callstack/react/brownfield/processors/VariantTaskProvider.kt	Makes the *UpdatesResources dependency conditional to handle absence of expo-updates.
gradle-plugins/react/brownfield/gradle.properties	Bumps the Gradle plugin’s published version to 2.0.0-alpha03.
apps/scripts/prepare-android-build-gradle-for-ci.ts	Updates the snapshot version used for CI gradle preparation.
apps/RNApp/android/build.gradle	Updates the classpath snapshot version reference.
.changeset/fair-swans-remain.md	Adds a changeset documenting the fix as a patch.

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[hurali97]

The SDK 56 PR contains this fix with also addressing the SourceSets part for Expo resources.

See:

• VariantTaskProvider
• RNSourceSet

We can either pull those changes in this PR or close this PR in favor of that

[artus9033]

I see. Then, maybe we can pull it in from here? That PR may still take some time, while here we have it ready right away. May help us with other initiatives.

[hurali97]

Yes, absolutely. You can take these two changes that I shared from that PR and pull in here, we can then merge this one first.