[Maintainence] Make separate dependencies file for maintaining all dependencies/libraries

[RotBolt]

Describe the chore
Make a separate dependencies file to list all dependencies version number / libraries versions and reference those versions in build.gradle files

This would include dependencies.gradle file which would contain all versions of dependencies/ libraries used . This would help us in maintaining/ adding the future dependencies .

Would you like to work on the issue?

• [ ✔️ : ] Yes
• No
• Other:

[RotBolt]

@iamareebjamal could you give your opinion ?

[iamareebjamal]

Not all, only repeated ones

[Skrilltrax]

@iamareebjamal @mariobehling is it okay to convert gradle files to kts files ? We can use buildSrc with dependencies update gradle plugin.

Here are some other benefits to this : https://medium.com/mindorks/migrating-gradle-build-scripts-to-kotlin-dsl-89788a4e383a

Medium

Migrating Gradle Build Scripts to Kotlin DSL

Howdy people! It’s bean a while since Gradle released support for Kotlin scripts. We have been writing Gradle script in a language called…

[iamareebjamal]

Yes, please go ahead and share before and after build durations after ./gradlew clean

[Skrilltrax]

@iamareebjamal almost done with the kotlin dsl, the build times are as follows (benchmarked with hyperfine)

Groovy
Clean Build - 171.838s
Next Build - 13.375s

Kotlin
Clean Build - 149.667s
Next Build - 10.113s

[Skrilltrax]

However i had some difficulty with signingConfigs and playStoreImplementation

1. Are signingConfig variables like SIGNING_KEY_FILE, ALIAS, KEY_ALIAS and STORE_PASS in local.properties because the gradle local properties plugin is not compatible with kotlin dsl.

2. Is playStoreImplementation a custom config because the kotlin dsl cannot find it.

[iamareebjamal]

1. It is fine if it is not supported, but it is still important to load them from environment variable
2. No it is not custom config. It's standard config defined in Android Gradle Plugin

[adityastic]

@Skrilltrax playStoreImplementation is a flavour specifc dependency configuration

[Skrilltrax]

@iamareebjamal I'm doing both but i am not using the plugin, so should i remove it ? can you also please confirm if i should keep AndroidConfig object in the PR, I made it but then it seemed kinda overkill.

@adityastic Thanks, the dsl does not automatically recognise it so i'll be using property delegation for that.

[iamareebjamal]

Remove both

[Skrilltrax]

Updated PR