Gradle 8.5 & AGP 8.1.4 uprades

[WhosNickDoglio]

Release notes: https://docs.gradle.org/8.5/release-notes.html

Upgrading to Gradle 8.5 comes with two major benefits:

1. We can now use Version Catalog as they were marked stable in Gradle 8.3
2. Greatly simplify publishing KMP aritfacts to Maven Central via https://github.com/vanniktech/gradle-maven-publish-plugin

I also ended up needing to upgrade to AGP 8.1.4 to get the project to build again. AGP 7.4.0 was using a Kotlin version older than what is being used in Gradle 8.5 that led to this super useful error message:

/Users/nicholasdoglio/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.jetbrains.kotlinx/kotlinx-coroutines-core-jvm/1.8.0/ac1dc37a30a93150b704022f8d895ee1bd3a36b3/kotlinx-coroutines-core-jvm-1.8.0.jar!/META-INF/kotlinx-coroutines-core.kotlin_module: Module was compiled with an incompatible version of Kotlin. The binary version of its metadata is 1.9.0, expected version is 1.7.1.

As part of the AGP 8.1.4 upgrade I was also able to delete the AndroidManifest.xml file and just add a namespace entry in the build.gradle.kts file with the package name. More info here

[crc-32]

@WhosNickDoglio could you update CI to use java compatible with new AGP version

[WhosNickDoglio]

@crc-32 Updated 🫡