Smoke and performance tests using Santa Tracker don't work with the upcoming AGP 9.0

[eskatos]

Issue type

Other

Problem description

Several of our smoke and performance tests use our fork of Santa Tracker:
https://github.com/gradle/santa-tracker-android

The original has been archived 3 years ago
https://github.com/google/santa-tracker-android

The Santa Tracker project is largely outdated. We kept it barely working with AGP 8.x in our fork.

NowInAndroid is more modern and is currently kept up to date by Google folks. It's a much better alternative.
https://github.com/gradle/nowinandroid

For performance tests we already also use NowInAndroid

We should drop Santa Tracker from our performance tests.
We should replace Santa Tracker by NowInAndroid in our smoke tests.

Most of the Santa Tracker based smoke tests are about task/transform execution and caching.

Context (optional)

Updating the AGP versions we test, I spent way too much time trying to make our Santa Tracker fork work with AGP 9.0 and failed.

That PR skips Santa Tracker based smoke tests on AGP >= 9.0.

• Update tested AGP versions, introducing AGP 9.0.0 alpha #35121

This is a prerequisite for

• Update Problems API internal classes to have 'internal' as suffix #34975

[eskatos]

The first small part about dropping Santa-Tracker in performance tests is addressed by

• Drop Santa-Tracker performance test template #35476