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Upgrade Firebase toolchain and Retrofit to latest stable - #178

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Small upgrade to latest stable version to get rid of occasional crashes caused by previous versions of dependencies

firebase-bom was pinned at 32.6.0 (~late 2023), far behind everything
else in the catalog. This is the concrete fix for Crashlytics issue
44deac0cb1807b0b0f2bbf697cd08f2d (#3 crash of the last 30 days): a
startup crash inside Firebase's own DataStore-backed preferences
storage (InvalidProtocolBufferException / CorruptionException while
FirebaseInitProvider installs), which is Firebase SDK-internal code we
don't control - later Crashlytics/firebase-common builds pull in
DataStore/protobuf fixes this app can only get through the BOM bump.

Bumped alongside it, since they're part of the same toolchain and the
app only uses firebase-crashlytics from the BOM:
- firebase-crashlytics-gradle 2.9.9 -> 3.0.7 (major version, but its
  breaking changes only affect the CrashlyticsExtension DSL block,
  which this project never configures)
- firebase-app-distribution-plugin 4.0.0 -> 5.3.0 (breaking changes
  are a minimum Gradle/AGP/google-services bump, already exceeded)
- google-services-plugin 4.4.2 -> 4.5.0

Also bumped retrofit 2.11.0 -> 2.12.0, the latest release still on the
2.x line (3.0.0 also exists but is a breaking rewrite, out of scope
here).

Checked every other dependency in the catalog against Maven Central /
Google's Maven repo: work-runtime-ktx, datastore-preferences,
navigation-compose, material, timber, appauth and simpleframework-xml
are all already on their latest stable release (only newer alpha/beta
builds exist). AGP/Kotlin/KSP/Compose BOM were left alone since they
were deliberately upgraded in PR #177 days ago.

Verified: EduroamGooglePlayDebug (uses Firebase) assembles clean,
EduroamFdroidDebug (no Firebase) still compiles clean.
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SanderVeer requested a review from dzolnai August 7, 2026 11:29
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