feat: upgrade gradle 8 and run tests against optimized sdk (#125) #415

Job	Run time
Test UI Minified (29, default)	15m 56s
Test Unit	4m 7s
Test Benchmark (29, default)	20m 7s
Test UI (29, default)	17m 53s
Sonar	2m 29s
Diffuse report	0s
Build (target:34 compile:34 appcompat: 1.6.1)	3m 3s
Build (target:33 compile:33 appcompat: 1.5.1)	2m 55s
Build (target:32 compile:32 appcompat: 1.4.2)	2m 59s
Build (target:30 compile:32 appcompat: 1.3.1)	2m 32s
Build (target:30 compile:30 appcompat: 1.3.1)	2m 43s
	1h 14m 44s

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