Awesome PR 😃

Converting this to a draft for the time being until I figure out what gradle version still works with Java 8 to get the pipeline green. Not sure when I will get to it since I am uncertain how long setting up the build locally for proper testing will take.

After lots of battling, I found 2 culprits that were causing issues with tests:

1. The latest Android Gradle build plugin supporting Java 8 is 4.2.2; anything beyond that needs at least Java 11. For some reason tests fail for me locally on Java 17+ but run fine with Java 11, seehttps://stackoverflow.com/a/76170361/6707985. I downgraded back to 4.2.2 to get the pipeline to work and added a note to the original PR post noting the restriction to Java 11.

2. Robolectric runs a compatibility check on startup; for Android 29+ this will fail with the error that creating a Robolectric Sandbox for the respective Android API version requires at least Java 9. I removed Robolectric and mocked out the parts of the SDK that were needed using different snippets I found around the internet. When Java 8 is dropped longterm, the implementation using robolectric that was present at6b86cbfshould work properly and be a bit more sensible. I have no idea what part of this PR caused issues with the existing robolectric test, to be honest...

I have no idea why node is failing now; this is cruel but I am relatively confident that's not my fault because I didn't touch node.

I have no idea why node is failing now; this is cruel but I am relatively confident that's not my fault because I didn't touch node.

This is fixed on the 1.5.x branch now, you may rebase to this if you want to see everything pass

Ah, I see! I will hold off on that I until that's merged I think to avoid more chaos than necessary. As long as I know it was not my fault indeed and it's fixed somewhere else I got peace of mind! Thanks :)