minSdkVersion error with Expo Build on Android

Struggling a bit with building a dev build for Expo for an Android app.

I get the error:

> Manifest merger failed : uses-sdk:minSdkVersion 23 cannot be smaller than version 24 declared in library [com.revenuecat.purchases:purchases-hybrid-common-ui:10.5.0]

Which points to the purchases-hybrid-common-ui library but I haven’t been able to find a solution.

There seems to be a post for this issue but I followed it and could not make it work.. not sure if that solution is exactly correct for all use cases of configuration:

I tried adding the implementations as mentioned here:

https://www.revenuecat.com/docs/tools/paywalls#android-installation

and looked through various solutions similar to this:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67021833/struggling-to-get-android-build-working-due-to-minsdkversion

The solution suggestions from the build log itself are:

Suggestion: 
use a compatible library with a minSdk of at most 23,
or increase this project's minSdk version to at least 24,
or use tools:overrideLibrary="com.revenuecat.purchases.hybridcommon.ui" to force usage (may lead to runtime failures)

I think I’ve tried all of these and the build still fails :/

but nothing works.

My package.json versions:

"react-native-purchases": "^7.27.0",
"react-native-purchases-ui": "^7.27.0",

My android/app/src/build.gradle file:

defaultConfig {
    minSdkVersion rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion

My android/build.gradle file:

buildscript {
    ext {
        buildToolsVersion = findProperty('android.buildToolsVersion') ?: '34.0.0'
        minSdkVersion = Integer.parseInt(findProperty('android.minSdkVersion') ?: '24')
        compileSdkVersion = Integer.parseInt(findProperty('android.compileSdkVersion') ?: 
            '34')
        targetSdkVersion = Integer.parseInt(findProperty('android.targetSdkVersion') ?: 
            '34')
        kotlinVersion = findProperty('android.kotlinVersion') ?: '1.8.10'

I am not sure what the configuration should be.

Has anyone come across this before?

Thanks!