./gradlew build failure

[Darkeye14]

Summary:

The application in the master branch fails to build because of various issues with its dependencyGuard. The following PR addresses those issues but it does not solve the issue completely. #2215

Steps to reproduce:
run ./gradlew build command in the terminal.

Expected behaviour:

A successful build.

Observed behaviour:

build failure.

Screenshots:

Before:

The code in the main branch fails to pass a normal build.

@therajanmaurya pls do the needful!!

[Darkeye14]

After:

This includes 2 out of 4 lint tests failure. #2215