react-native link adds compile to gradle script, but compile support soon gone - react-native

Question

Whenever I use react-native link, it adds the following to my app gradle file.
Image from Android Studio Gradle File
Then when I compile this, Android Studio tells me that "compile" is being deprecated and won't be supported after 2018. My question is, what would the correct replacement be for, for instance, react-native-ionicons?
The section of the gradle file in question is as follows.
dependencies {
compile project(':react-native-vector-icons')
implementation fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')
implementation 'com.android.support:support-v4:28.0.0'
implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:28.0.0'
implementation 'com.facebook.react:react-native:+'
androidTestImplementation('com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2.2', {
exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'support-annotations'
})
implementation 'com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:3.4.0-RC1'
implementation 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.0.0-alpha3'
testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'}

Answer 1

It was due to react-native link not having been updated but as of React-Native 0.58.3 the linking procedure has been updated so that compile and api have been replaced with implementation. Which you can see at this pull request
You could also just change compile to implementation in your grade file.
However you may find that some of the build.gradle files for the dependencies still use compile and api, unfortunately they only way to fix warnings from those is to make a pull request on the dependency changing compile and api to implementation