Upgrade project's build-time dependencies

[jozuasijsling-ing]

Let's upgrade tooling so that developers with recent Android Studio versions can build the project out of the box.

• Upgraded AGP (Android Gradle Plugin) to 8.4.0
• Embedded Gradle wrapper version 8.7
  _{AGP 8.4.0 needs at least Gradle 8.6, while Android Studio Jellyfish (current latest stable) ships with Gradle 8.4}
• Changed root module's compileSdk version to 34
  _{making it the same as the library modules}
• Disabled Jetifier
  _{as it is not needed according to ./gradlew checkJetifier}
• Removed multiDexEnabled instruction
  _{as it is enabled by default}
• Removed unused module :uiunderstanding
• Removed unused plugin declaration for aspectjtools
• Reworked build.sh _{, so that it…}
  • _{…works even when started from another directory}
  • _{…uses Gradle wrapper for downloading the Gradle binary}
  • _{…relies on AGP for detecting and reporting missing environment variables}

[amirmahdifard]

@simplexatg hello. Currently, it is not possible or I don't know how to build the project in android studio. If I could build, I would fix everything myself. please fix it. it is a one time work but forever

[amirmahdifard]

@jozuasijsling-ing even this does not work. I Openned this in android studio and it gets errors gradle sink issues, and gives error. I really whished the build issues be resolved, So I can work on it. Talkback is really a good screenreader, But it just should be worked on.

[jozuasijsling-ing]

Hi @amirmahdifard, happy to help but I'll need error details. To start with, please share the error output. Also, what operating system are you using?

If you're on an Apple machine with ARM CPU you might be running into this NDK issue:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/69555276

[PatrykMis]

@jozuasijsling-ing he wants to build under Windows which is not possible without WSL2 or VM. He's constantly spamming in all PRs and issues...

[amirmahdifard]

@jozuasijsling-ing I tryed this pr, because you said this pr makes it possible to build the project on windows with android studio, so I thort that that means we are now able to just build this on windows with out knowing anything about linux wich is apparently not possible, so sorry about that. @PatrykMis i'm sorry about my so much exitements about I thort finally I can build talkback and improve it myself, and also i'm sorry about my really boring life that made me spam issues by my short time comments. Now I understand that this is not possible, and I have already gave up, and my comments will no longer annoy you. Thanks and sorry about that, this was my last comment.