Update AGP and dependencies

[naveensingh]

Description of the changes in your PR

• Updated AGP to 8.9.0
• Updated commons (with new about screen)
• Removed support for Android 7 and older versions
• Added the new global/full-screen app lock
• Disabled language splits
• Moved options like about, settings back into the popup menu

Fixes the following issue(s)

• Fixes Can't build Commons as subproject #144

Acknowledgement

• I read the contribution guidelines.

[mimi89999]

Is it the correct way of updating the Gradle Wrapper? Shouldn't ./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version 8.11.1 be used and run twice as stated in https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/gradle_wrapper.html#sec:upgrading_wrapper ?

[naveensingh]

That is the recommended way but it's optional. I usually just run the AGP upgrade assistant which updates the required Gradle version as well.

[mimi89999]

The Gradle update method updates the Wrapper jar, but the Android Studio method does not. 🤔

[naveensingh]

Yes, updating the version number is usually enough. The other changes are optimizations/optional.

[mimi89999]

The checksum of the Gradle Wrapper corresponded to a very ancient version:

$ sha256sum gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar 
16caeaf66d57a0d1d2087fef6a97efa62de8da69afa5b908f40db35afc4342da  gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar

In https://gradle.org/release-checksums/ it's under v2.10

[naveensingh]

Yes, it's from when the project was created :)