feat: Use version catalog for dependency management

[oas004]

First of all, thanks for an awesome project! 🤩 I really like it!

In this PR I have tried to implement version catalog for dependency management. This is important to ensure consistency in library versions across modules.

~~There are some things to consider. The AGP version is not yet updated (7.0.4) and therefore [version catalog]~~ ~~(https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/platforms.html) is still experimental. However, since there was a PR on~~ ~~this (181) I thought this was okay. Then I can~~ ~~rebase and remove the enableFeaturePreview flag when that is merged. Furthermore, I have not~~ ~~implemented plugins in library.versions.toml as that is a feature that was added in version 7.2 of gradle.~~

Update: Rebased on #181, used plugins from version catalog and updated the root gradle file 😄

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Fixes #172 🦕 Fixes #160 🦕

[oas004]

@barbeau There is always one UI test that is failing, it runs green locally. Is it just a flaky test? Or is there something I can do to optimise this? 🤔 😄

[barbeau]

@oas004 it's a known issue with the test on CI at the moment. Please see https://github.com/googlemaps/android-maps-compose/issues/174.

[oas004]

@oas004 it's a known issue with the test on CI at the moment. Please see #174.

Thanks for quick reply! That makes sense! I'll leave it be then as the tests are passing locally 😄

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