Gradle 8 upgrade

[john-tadebois]

I pushed this branch from themockgrateme:gradle-8-upgrade, with the fix for

POM_IMPLEMENTATION_CLASS = com.vanniktech.android.junit.jacoco.GenerationPlugin

Along with themockgraeme's changes:

#219

I forked the Laimiux Gradle 8 compatible branch of the Vanniktech Jacoco plugin and made the following changes:

Removed the Laimiux publishing calls, which are specific to their system.
Upgraded the included APIs to the latest versions and made minor code changes to accommodate these.
Changed the Java / JDK version to 17, for compatibility with Gradle 8.
Upgraded the Gradle version to 8.

[john-tadebois]

@themockgraeme I have added the code review changes from #219.

I could not push to your branch, so I created this one. Could you please give it a quick review?

[unamed000]

Hey guys ....

This seem to take forever to merge, do we have any workarounds for this until this is merged?

cc @john-tadebois john

[john-tadebois]

Hey guys ....

This seem to take forever to merge, do we have any workarounds for this until this is merged?

cc @john-tadebois john

I do not know much about the inner workings of this plugin.

My team has moved on to directly use JaCoCo.

I can still merge that PR if you do understand and can confirm in this chat that I can go ahead and merge this PR.