Upgrade to Gradle 8 / AGP 8 / Java 17

[TWiStErRob]

Would you accept a PR?

[k3b]

Would you accept a PR?

I am not shure
What will be the benefit of the upgrade?
Will Java17 be still compatible with android-4.2 ?

[TWiStErRob]

Some things that immediately come to mind, there's probably more:

What will be the benefit of the upgrade?

• Being able to easily use the latest Android SDK APIs.
• Being able to easily use the latest tools.
• Potentially use Java 8 features (lambdas), or Kotlin if wanted.
• Ability to provide support for intents added in newer versions (e.g. https://developer.android.com/sdk/api_diff/34/changes/android.content.Intent)
• Being able to upgrade to newer libraries (ones which have compileSdk=34) with stable tooling. e.g. solve
  

  intent-intercept/app/build.gradle

  Line 48 in 23ce4bd

  // Note: Updating these to latest versions also require java-1.8 and compileSdkVersion 33

• Faster builds from AGP and Gradle improvements

Will Java17 be still compatible with android-4.2 ?

• Yes, it should be compatible. dex/art doesn't care what's the JVM running unit tests and Gradle builds, only what's the bytecode generated (source/target).
• AGP 8 requires Java 17, but still provides minSdk=14 (and probably lower) tooling too (AndroidX is built with it after all).