Some quality-of-life improvements

[TacoTheDank]

1st commit

• Delete unnecessary .idea files

2nd commit

• Update gradle and its wrapper to 7.4.2 using Git Bash

3rd commit

• Delete unused example tests

4th commit

• Fix deprecations in submodule build.gradle
• Use new DSL block for plugins
• Specify using Java 11 (just a technicality)
• Remove unused deprecated jcenter
• Update AGP 7.2.0 -> 7.2.1
• Remove unneeded Jetifier option in gradle.properties (everything already uses AndroidX)
• Remove unused Material library (this shrinks the app)

5th commit

• Utilize AndroidX Core parseAsHtml KTX extension (does version code check internally)
• Migrate to using Activity Result API
• Utilize ContextCompat.startForegroundService (does check internally)
• Clean up preference screen attributes
• Use FragmentContainerView (as recommended by AndroidX)
• Utilize app:iconSpaceReserved="false" (fixes large padding on left side of preferences, makes them look nicer)

6th commit

• Replace platform drawables (old and ugly) with Material Icons (nice)
• Renamed ic_notification to ic_surround_sound, as this is the proper name for this drawable

7th commit

• I used Audacity to cut the audio time to 5 seconds, changed the encoding to an unsigned 8-bit PCM (from a signed 16-bit PCM), and reduced the Hz to 16,000 (from 48,000 Hz). This drastically shrinks the file size from 2.74 MB to 156 KB.

8th commit

• Enable minification without obfuscation (this shrinks the app size by a ton)

9th commit

• Migrate to using ViewBinding

10th commit

• Update AppCompat 1.4.1 -> 1.4.2 (changelog)
• Update Core 1.7.0 -> 1.8.0 (changelog)
• Update Kotlin 1.6.21 -> 1.7.0 (changelog)

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Feel free to ask any questions you might have.

[danielgjackson]

Hi @TacoTheDank, thanks for all this work -- somehow, I've only just noticed the pull request! I should get round to looking at it properly soon. Cheers.

[TacoTheDank]

@danielgjackson It's been a while. Any updates?

[BenjaminBrienen]

@danielgjackson ???

[BenjaminBrienen]

@TacoTheDank Would you be willing to publish your fork on F-Droid? I really need this app but it barely works on my Pixel 7 Pro.

[eproffitt]

@TacoTheDank can you merge to your own master branch (without deleting your patch branch, of course) and build the apk? Or, as @BenjaminBrienen said, publish your fork to F-Droid? Giving proper attribution, as is only right.

[eproffitt]

@danielgjackson are you good with merging this?