AGP upgrade and view binding migration

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Changes Made

• Upgrade AGP
• Migration from Kotlin synthetics to view binding
• Minor warnings fixed

Next Steps

• Clear remaining warnings
• Migrate to Credential Manager
• Migrate to Compose

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Build & Compatibility

  • Updated the Android project to newer SDK, Java, Kotlin, Gradle, and Android tooling versions.
  • Refreshed Firebase, AndroidX, networking, testing, and UI libraries.
  • Improved support for modern development environments and build configuration.

• Bug Fixes

  • Replaced deprecated view access and parcelization integrations with supported alternatives.
  • Improved locale-aware course section formatting and navigation handling.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The project updates its Android and Gradle toolchain, replaces deprecated Parcelize and Kotlin synthetic view access, upgrades dependencies, and refreshes both Gradle launcher scripts.

Changes

Android and Gradle modernization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Android and Gradle build configuration .gitignore, .idea/misc.xml, app/build.gradle, app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml, build.gradle, gradle.properties, gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties, settings.gradle	The project targets newer Android and Java versions, updates plugins and dependencies, enables build features, removes the manifest package declaration, and configures Gradle 9.7.1 with Foojay toolchain resolution.
Parcelize model migration app/src/main/java/com/cornellappdev/coursegrab/models/*	Parcelable model classes use kotlinx.parcelize.Parcelize.
Activity view binding migration app/src/main/java/com/cornellappdev/coursegrab/*Activity.kt, app/src/main/java/com/cornellappdev/coursegrab/NotificationModal.kt	Activities and the notification modal inflate generated binding classes and use binding references for views and listeners. MainActivity also updates back navigation, URI construction, and locale-aware uppercase conversion.
Gradle launcher replacement gradlew, gradlew.bat	The POSIX and Windows launchers use updated Java discovery, path handling, JVM options, argument handling, and wrapper JAR execution.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 71d74

The upgrade may prevent Windows developers or CI from running the Gradle wrapper reliably, and the new Gradle distribution lacks integrity verification. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up on line endings and checksum pinning.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check	⚠️ Warning	The description lists the main changes and next steps, but it omits the required Overview and Test Coverage sections. It also omits Related PRs or Issues and Screenshots & Videos despite UI changes.	Add an Overview section that explains the purpose and scope of the upgrade. Add Test Coverage with build, test, and manual verification details. Add Screenshots & Videos for the UI changes, or delete that section only if the repository proc…
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 20 functions across 11 files. (10 skipped:…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the two primary changes: the AGP upgrade and migration from Kotlin synthetics to view binding.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Resolution

Add an Overview section that explains the purpose and scope of the upgrade. Add Test Coverage with build, test, and manual verification details. Add Screenshots & Videos for the UI changes, or delete that section only if the repository process does not require screenshots. State related PRs or issues, or mark the section not applicable and remove it from the description template output.

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Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 20 functions across 11 files. (10 skipped: 10 unsupported.)

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In `@gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties`:
- Line 3: Add the distributionSha256Sum property alongside distributionUrl in
the Gradle Wrapper configuration, using the provided SHA-256 checksum for Gradle
9.7.1.

In `@gradlew.bat`:
- Line 1: Configure `.gitattributes` with `*.bat text eol=crlf`, then refresh
`gradlew.bat` so it is stored with CRLF line endings and its existing batch
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⛔ Files ignored due to path filters (1)

• gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar is excluded by !**/*.jar

📒 Files selected for processing (21)

• .gitignore
• .idea/misc.xml
• app/build.gradle
• app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
• app/src/main/java/com/cornellappdev/coursegrab/CourseDetailsActivity.kt
• app/src/main/java/com/cornellappdev/coursegrab/LoginActivity.kt
• app/src/main/java/com/cornellappdev/coursegrab/MainActivity.kt
• app/src/main/java/com/cornellappdev/coursegrab/NotificationModal.kt
• app/src/main/java/com/cornellappdev/coursegrab/SearchActivity.kt
• app/src/main/java/com/cornellappdev/coursegrab/SettingsActivity.kt
• app/src/main/java/com/cornellappdev/coursegrab/models/Course.kt
• app/src/main/java/com/cornellappdev/coursegrab/models/CourseNotification.kt
• app/src/main/java/com/cornellappdev/coursegrab/models/SearchContainer.kt
• app/src/main/java/com/cornellappdev/coursegrab/models/SearchResult.kt
• app/src/main/java/com/cornellappdev/coursegrab/models/TrackingContainer.kt
• build.gradle
• gradle.properties
• gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
• gradlew
• gradlew.bat
• settings.gradle

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