Upgrade to AGP 8.0.

[Isira-Seneviratne]

• Update the Android Gradle Plugin to 8.0.
• Set the JDK version to 17.
• Remove some unnecessary API suppressions (the lint issue is not present on Android Studio Flamingo).

[Isira-Seneviratne]

There seems to be an issue with the CodeQL action, as it mentions in the log that Java 11 is being used instead of 17.

[MatsG23]

You can setup JDK 17 in the CodeQL Action using actions/setup-java. It should use that version of Java for the task autobuild then.

See: github/codeql-action#825 (comment)

[MatsG23]

Just as you did in the ci.yml file.

[MatsG23]

BTW, do you have a reason to use version 8.0.0 of the Gradle build tool? That version was released on 13th February. Since then there was some patch releases. The latest version is Gradle 8.1.1.

[Bnyro]

Android Studio does not yet support the latest AGP version as far as I know.

[MatsG23]

I am talking of Gradle, not the Android Gradle Plugin (AGP).

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[Isira-Seneviratne]

BTW, do you have a reason to use version 8.0.0 of the Gradle build tool? That version was released on 13th February. Since then there was some patch releases. The latest version is Gradle 8.1.1.

It's required by AGP 8.0.

[MatsG23]

AGP requires Gradle 8.0 as a minimum version. It is not pinned on a specific version of Gradle. It is officially recommended to use the latest Gradle version with AGP for "performance reasons".
The newer releases also include bug fixes, stabilize the config cache feature (in this case) and may fix security vulnerabilities.
You cannot use a newer AGP version like 8.1 with the stable version of Android Studio (Flamingo) but that is a different thing.

[Bnyro]

That makes sense, however we need to make sure F-Droid supports later versions of gradle than 8.0 too, recently we weren't updated on F-Droid for a month due to bumping the gradle version to one that's not been supported by F-Droid.

[Bnyro]

Unfortunately I'm not able to test this because I'm using IntelliJ which doesn't yet support the AGP 8.0. I'll probably need to switch to Android Studio then, which however is unfortunately not part of my distro's package repos.
So apologies for the delay, I'll see whether I can find an other way, e.g. to update the Android Plugin in IntelliJ.

[Bnyro]

I've tested the changes and it now seems to be all good to me, the only thing we should get running before merging is CodeQL.

[Bnyro]

Thanks @FireMasterK and @Isira-Seneviratne