feat: Introduce Version Catalog for Dependency Management (#1607)

* feat: Introduce Version Catalog for Dependency Management

This commit introduces a version catalog via `libs.versions.toml` to centralize and manage project dependencies. It replaces the previous hardcoded dependency versions in `app/build.gradle` with references to the version catalog. This change enhances maintainability and organization by centralizing dependency management.

- Added `gradle/libs.versions.toml` to define dependencies and their versions.
- Updated `app/build.gradle` to utilize dependencies from the version catalog.

* chore: migrate plugins to version catalog

* chore: sort lines in `libs.versions.toml`

-Sorts `versions`, `dependencies`, and `plugins` references alphabetically.

* feat: pin ZXing Core dependency

*   Suppressed warning about updating zxing-core to avoid confusion.
*   Added a note to avoid updating zxing-core.

* refactor: Enforce consistent `implementation()` calls in `build.gradle`

-   Ensures all library dependencies are called with `implementation(libs.xxx)` instead of `implementation libs.xxx` in `build.gradle`.

* feat: use version catalog bundles

- Updated dependencies in the app build.gradle to use bundles where possible.

* fix: fix ui test dependency declarations

* chore: comments for clarity

* fix: remove material3 from this PR

build.gradle

@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@
 buildscript {
     ext {
         useCrashlytics = false
-        kotlin_version = '2.1.10'
-        hilt_version = '2.55'
-        protobuf_version = '4.29.3'
     }
 
     repositories {
@@ -13,30 +10,30 @@ buildscript {
         mavenCentral()
     }
     dependencies {
-        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.8.1'
-        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
-        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-serialization:$kotlin_version"
+        classpath libs.agp
+        classpath libs.kotlin.gradle.plugin
+        classpath libs.kotlin.serialization
 
         // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
         // in the individual module build.gradle files
 
         // Firebase Crashlytics
         if (useCrashlytics) {
-            classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.4.2'
-            classpath 'com.google.firebase:firebase-crashlytics-gradle:3.0.3'
+            classpath libs.google.services
+            classpath libs.firebase.crashlytics.gradle
         }
 
         // protobuf plugin - docs here https://github.com/google/protobuf-gradle-plugin
-        classpath 'com.google.protobuf:protobuf-gradle-plugin:0.9.4'
+        classpath libs.protobuf.gradle.plugin
 
-        classpath "com.google.dagger:hilt-android-gradle-plugin:$hilt_version"
+        classpath libs.hilt.android.gradle.plugin
     }
 }
 
 plugins {
-    id "org.jetbrains.kotlin.jvm" version "$kotlin_version" apply false
-    id "com.google.devtools.ksp" version "2.1.10-1.0.30" apply false
-    id "org.jetbrains.kotlin.plugin.compose" version "$kotlin_version" apply false
+    alias (libs.plugins.kotlin.jvm) apply false
+    alias (libs.plugins.devtools.ksp) apply false
+    alias (libs.plugins.compose) apply false
 }
 
 allprojects {