Migrate from Kotlin synthetics to Jetpack view binding

[angrezichatterbox]

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Description

The Kotlin-android-extensions Gradle plugin is deprecated. To ensure future compatibility and to take advantage of the latest features, we need to migrate our app from using Kotlin Android Extensions to use ViewBinding.

Contribution

I’m happy to take on this issue and am more than willing to assist anyone else who wants to work on it. 😄

[andrewtavis]

@angrezichatterbox, does this make sense for the next thing you work on? :) I think it'd be good to get this out of the way so that other people's developer experience is improved 🧑‍💻

[angrezichatterbox]

Yes, I would work on this. It wouldn't take too long as well.

[andrewtavis]

Assigned 😊 Thanks, @angrezichatterbox!

[angrezichatterbox]

I have created a pull request for this issue.

[andrewtavis]

Thanks for the quick fix here, @angrezichatterbox! Really nice to have the build settings up to date and everything working so nicely 😊