chore: upgrade Gradle and dependencies

[dkhawk]

Android Gradle Plugin to 8.8.0
Android Maps Utils to 3.10.0
Activity to 1.10.0
Navigation Fragment to 2.8.5
Places to 4.1.0
and View Binding to 8.8.0

Also updated Gradle to 8.10.2 and Kotlin to 2.1.0.

Address some lint problems.

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[kikoso]

Re-running failed jobs, something seems to be introducing an issue.

[kikoso]

@dkhawk , the build was failing because it is somehow not working with the new default Ubuntu runner (24.04 instead of 22.04, see this link) Setting explicitly 22.04 works.

The error we are getting is when the debug keystore is going to be created: java.io.IOException: Unable to create debug keystore in /home/runner/.config/.android because it is not writable.

This is not on our side. I would suggest keeping 22.04 explicitly until we find a fix to work with 24.04

Everything else in the PR LGTM, feel free to merge :)

[kikoso]

LGTM