Implement photo picker

[Rajan-p-simform]

This pull request introduces significant updates to the Android project, including upgrading dependencies, enhancing compatibility with newer Android SDKs, and implementing modern features like view binding and media picker APIs. The most important changes are grouped into dependency updates, SDK compatibility enhancements, and feature additions.

Dependency Updates:

• Updated dependencies in SSffmpegVideoOperation/build.gradle and app/build.gradle to newer versions, including androidx.core:core-ktx (1.9.0), androidx.appcompat:appcompat (1.7.1), and com.google.android.material:material (1.12.0). [1] [2]

Feature Additions:

• Introduced media picker APIs (ActivityResultContracts.PickVisualMedia and ActivityResultContracts.PickMultipleVisualMedia) in BaseActivity.kt for modern file selection workflows. [1] [2]
• Added new utility methods in Common.kt for handling file paths, saving temporary files, and retrieving media duration. [1] [2] [[3]]

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Pull Request Overview

This PR upgrades Android SDK and Gradle tooling, replaces Kotlin synthetic views with view binding, and implements modern media picker APIs alongside utility methods for file handling.

• Bumped Gradle, compile/target SDK versions, dependencies, enabled viewBinding
• Replaced kotlinx.android.synthetic usages with generated Binding classes
• Added ActivityResultContracts file pickers and Common helpers for URI-to-path conversion

Reviewed Changes

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File	Description
gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties	Updated Gradle distribution to 8.5
app/build.gradle	Migrated to viewBinding, bumped compileSdk/targetSdk to 35
app/src/main/java/com/simform/videoimageeditor/BaseActivity.kt	Registered PickVisualMedia contracts for single/multiple picks
SSffmpegVideoOperation/src/main/java/com/simform/videooperations/Common.kt	Added saveFileToTempAndGetPath, getDurationFromFile, updated file path logic
app/src/main/java/com/simform/videoimageeditor/videoProcessActivity/CombineVideosActivity.kt	Updated picker logic for multiple media and binding refs
app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml	Added time picker strings
app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml	Adjusted external storage permissions

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app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml:114

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    // Time Picker