fix(android): apply codegen plugin unconditionally, not gated on isNewArchitectureEnabled

[rohit-till]

Summary

RN's Android autolinking discovers this module's codegen libraryName by regexing the raw text of android/build.gradle (findLibraryName.js in @react-native-community/cli-config-android) rather than evaluating this file's Groovy conditionals. So the consuming app's build always registers this module for codegen and expects android/build/generated/source/codegen/jni/ to exist — regardless of isNewArchitectureEnabled().

Because apply plugin: 'com.facebook.react' and the react { ... } codegen block here were gated behind isNewArchitectureEnabled(), a consuming app with newArchEnabled=false never actually ran this module's own codegen task, so that directory was never created. This produces a hard CMake configure failure for any consumer:

CMake Error at .../Android-autolinking.cmake:16 (add_subdirectory):
  add_subdirectory given source
  ".../react-native-esc-pos-printer/android/build/generated/source/codegen/jni/"
  which is not an existing directory

This also matters going forward regardless of that flag: RN 0.82+ no longer supports opting out of New Architecture (newArchEnabled is ignored and a warning is printed), so codegen must always run.

Change

Applies the com.facebook.react plugin and configures the react { } codegen extension unconditionally, matching how other actively-maintained RN modules declare codegen (they don't gate it on isNewArchitectureEnabled() either). No behavior change for consumers already on New Architecture; unblocks consumers on RN 0.82+/0.84+ where new arch is forced on.

Base branch note

Targeting rohit/publish-github-package rather than main: main has since diverged to a restructured package/ layout (a different major-version line) where android/build.gradle no longer exists at this path. rohit/publish-github-package is the actual lineage this org's v2.2.x releases (up to v2.2.4) are cut from, so this is the branch a v2.2.5-style patch release would come from.

Test plan

• Verified that a consuming app with newArchEnabled=false (or on RN 0.82+/0.84+ where the flag is ignored) successfully runs generateCodegenArtifactsFromSchema for this module and configureCMakeDebug no longer fails with the add_subdirectory error above.

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