enhancement(SettingsActivity): update settings to material design with compose and navigation3 (#87)

[dbhavsar76]

Description

enhancement(SettingsActivity): update settings to material design with compose and navigation3 (#87)

Modernize the app settings screens ui to material design while migrating to latest industry standards (compose, navigation3, etc.).

Changes

• add compose navigation3 for navigating multiple screens
• add kotlin serialization plugin for nav keys (navigation3 nav keys needs to be annotated with @Serializable)
• bump androidx.appcompat to 1.7.1 for compatibility with compose navigation3
• add new ComposePreference library for preference elements
• add new Jetpack Compose Permissions library for managing permissions in compose
• adopt expressive material design for the ui (android 15 settings style)
• remove the old SettingsActivity and preference xml resources
• remove separate LicenseActivity and make it part of the settings as LicensesScreen
• miscellaneous cleanup (removing unused imports in the modified files)
• TODO(optional): better catergorization and better consistent preference summaries

Screenshots

[researchxxl]

@dbhavsar76 ack.. i will check the next days on a spare phone
should we also do a community test by releasing a ".rc" tag on github only??

[dbhavsar76]

should we also do a community test by releasing a ".rc" tag on github only??

Sure. That would be great. Give me this week to address the points mentioned above, then we do the release candidate. So it won't feel unfinished.

[researchxxl]

Sure. That would be great. Give me this week to address the points mentioned above, then we do the release candidate. So it won't feel unfinished.

take your time.. i also hava lot of todos left on my takeover list

[dbhavsar76]

@researchxxl I have finished my todos. Everything might not be exactly one to one on the ui side, but all the functionalities and background logic is taken care of. We can now publish rc build and test things out.

[researchxxl]

ok ill have a look next days and help preparing the rc

[researchxxl]

@dbhavsar76 could you pls drop me some insights related to the security of the newly introduced libs and why you think we should not rely on just official android stuff instead..

• me.zhanghai.compose ??

we should both have an extra look as the app has a lot of privileges on user phones