Update Kotlin & Compose

[Wavesonics]

Kotlin 1.8.0 and Compose 1.3.0

[leinardi]

@bytebeats do you accept PR? If you do, I can can make one to update the dependencies of the project, including Kotlin and Compose. Please let me know if you are interested.

[bytebeats]

@bytebeats do you accept PR? If you do, I can can make one to update the dependencies of the project, including Kotlin and Compose. Please let me know if you are interested.

Hi @leinardi yes of course, feel free to create PRs. Beyond that, let me know what more do you guys want from this project.

[leinardi]

Hi @bytebeats, I just created #32 that bumps all runtime dependencies.

I wasn't able to bump the Android Gradle Plugin to the latest stable because it depends on Gradle 8 and Gradle 8 does not support the current publishing DSL:

Software Components will not be created automatically for Maven publishing from Android Gradle Plugin 8.0. To opt-in to the future behavior, set the Gradle property android.disableAutomaticComponentCreation=true in the `gradle.properties` file or use the new publishing DSL.

Beyond that, let me know what more do you guys want from this project.

Yeah, if would be nice if you could first release a new version with the bumped dependencies, after that, in order of priority, these would be nice things to have:

1. Migrate the project to Gradle 8.7 and Android Gradle Plugin 8.4.0 (this will require using the new DSL for publishing the Maven artifact)
2. Provide a Material 3 version of the library
3. Modernize the Gradle project structure making use of version catalog (libs.versions.toml)
4. Migrate the Gradle files from Groovy to Kotlin DSL

[bytebeats]

@leinardi that's all of really nice ideas! It's also really nice timing to do what you're mentioning. I'd really like to do that!

[leinardi]

Nice 🙂
btw, if you need some inspiration, on this project I have already done some of those tasks, like the Gradle project structure, Kotlin DSL and M3 so it could useful to see how another project tackled these issues: https://github.com/leinardi/FloatingActionButtonSpeedDial/

[leinardi]

Some other things to do could be:
5. Add CI via GitHub Actions
6. Add some static analysis tools like Detekt and Spotless

Both of those things are available on this other project of mine: https://github.com/leinardi/Forlago/blob/master/.github/workflows/ci.yml#L169

[bytebeats]

@leinardi your work is really inspiring! I'd like to modernize my project! Really appreciated it!