refactor(angular): remove angular 14 and 15 dependencies (#29169)

Issue number: Internal

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## What is the current behavior?
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With Ionic 8 we are dropping Angular 14 and 15 support.

## What is the new behavior?
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- This PR officially drops Angular 14 and 15 support.
Note: The work to do this was done a while ago, but this branch was
never merged into `feature-8.0`. The breaking change was already noted
in the breaking change guide, so this is not an additional breaking
change on top of what was already specified.


## Does this introduce a breaking change?

- [x] Yes
- [ ] No

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Co-authored-by: Brandy Carney <brandyscarney@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Maria Hutt <thetaPC@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Amanda Johnston <90629384+amandaejohnston@users.noreply.github.com>

packages/angular/common/src/directives/navigation/back-button.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-import { HostListener, Input, Optional, ElementRef, NgZone, ChangeDetectorRef, Directive } from '@angular/core';
+import { HostListener, Optional, ElementRef, NgZone, ChangeDetectorRef, Directive } from '@angular/core';
 import type { Components } from '@ionic/core';
-import type { AnimationBuilder } from '@ionic/core/components';
 
 import { Config } from '../../providers/config';
 import { NavController } from '../../providers/nav-controller';
@@ -22,12 +21,6 @@ export declare interface IonBackButton extends Components.IonBackButton {}
 })
 // eslint-disable-next-line @angular-eslint/directive-class-suffix
 export class IonBackButton {
-  @Input()
-  defaultHref: string | undefined;
-
-  @Input()
-  routerAnimation: AnimationBuilder | undefined;
-
   protected el: HTMLElement;
 
   constructor(

packages/angular/common/src/directives/navigation/router-outlet.ts

@@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ import { RouteView, StackDidChangeEvent, StackWillChangeEvent, getUrl, isTabSwit
   inputs: ['animated', 'animation', 'mode', 'swipeGesture'],
 })
 // eslint-disable-next-line @angular-eslint/directive-class-suffix
-export class IonRouterOutlet implements OnDestroy, OnInit {
+export abstract class IonRouterOutlet implements OnDestroy, OnInit {
+  abstract outletContent: any;
+
   nativeEl: HTMLIonRouterOutletElement;
   activatedView: RouteView | null = null;
   tabsPrefix: string | undefined;
@@ -116,7 +118,6 @@ export class IonRouterOutlet implements OnDestroy, OnInit {
     router: Router,
     zone: NgZone,
     activatedRoute: ActivatedRoute,
-    protected outletContent: ViewContainerRef,
     @SkipSelf() @Optional() readonly parentOutlet?: IonRouterOutlet
   ) {
     this.nativeEl = elementRef.nativeElement;
@@ -296,7 +297,13 @@ export class IonRouterOutlet implements OnDestroy, OnInit {
 
       // Calling `markForCheck` to make sure we will run the change detection when the
       // `RouterOutlet` is inside a `ChangeDetectionStrategy.OnPush` component.
-      enteringView = this.stackCtrl.createView(this.activated, activatedRoute);
+
+      /**
+       * At this point this.activated has been set earlier
+       * in this function, so it is guaranteed to be non-null.
+       */
+      // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-non-null-assertion
+      enteringView = this.stackCtrl.createView(this.activated!, activatedRoute);
 
       // Store references to the proxy by component
       this.proxyMap.set(cmpRef.instance, activatedRouteProxy);

packages/angular/common/src/directives/navigation/tabs.ts

@@ -17,14 +17,14 @@ import { StackDidChangeEvent, StackWillChangeEvent } from './stack-utils';
   selector: 'ion-tabs',
 })
 // eslint-disable-next-line @angular-eslint/directive-class-suffix
-export class IonTabs implements AfterContentInit, AfterContentChecked {
+export abstract class IonTabs implements AfterContentInit, AfterContentChecked {
   /**
    * Note: These must be redeclared on each child class since it needs
    * access to generated components such as IonRouterOutlet and IonTabBar.
    */
-  outlet: any;
-  tabBar: any;
-  tabBars: any;
+  abstract outlet: any;
+  abstract tabBar: any;
+  abstract tabBars: any;
 
   @ViewChild('tabsInner', { read: ElementRef, static: true }) tabsInner: ElementRef<HTMLDivElement>;