Hi. I have a colleague who cannot build an android...

# gradle

[Justin Tullgren]

Hi. I have a colleague who cannot build an android kotlin project using precompiled scripts in a separate build project. He is the only one out of a group of 5 with this problem. I tried a cmd line only ./gradlew assemble to eliminate Android Studio as the problem and he still has the issue. Details in thread. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance ! 🙏

[Justin Tullgren]

Error:

android-app-conventions.gradle.kts: (15, 1): Expression 'android' cannot be invoked as a function. The function 'invoke()' is not found

Shell JVM: openjdk11
Gradle Version: (gradle wrapper) gradle-7.5-all

[Justin Tullgren]

I have destroyed his gradle caches, ~/.gradle/caches, ensured he is using java11, and performed a clean build and fresh git checkout

[Adam S]

that’s really weird. Are they on Windows, while everyone else is on Mac/Linux?

[Justin Tullgren]

no all on mac

[Adam S]

is android-app-conventions.gradle.kts a pre-compiled script plugin? (Is it in buildSrc, or an included-build?) It is applied using apply(from = "...")?

[Justin Tullgren]

pre-compiled in an included-build

[Justin Tullgren]

applied using plugins block

plugins {
id("android-app-conventions")
}

[Justin Tullgren]

the included build depends on android gradle plugin and only applies the kotlin-dsl to its project

[Adam S]

and the error still happens on the command line when he runs ./gradlew assemble? (I didn’t understand your original message, whether it was specificially related to Android Studio)

[Justin Tullgren]

yes, it happens on command line. i ruled out Android studio as a culprit

[Adam S]

what happens if they run this?

./gradlew clean assemble --rerun-tasks --no-build-cache --no-configuration-cache --no-parallel

(I think I spelled all of that right…)

[Justin Tullgren]

i will ask and get back to you

[Justin Tullgren]

we'll see if you did 😉

[Adam S]

aside from that you could try updating to Gradle 7.6.1 - maybe a bug was fixed, or a new version might clear out some dirty cache

[Justin Tullgren]

ok thanks. I was going to ask if you had any other recommendations since he just jumped offline.

[Justin Tullgren]

thanks for your help

[Adam S]

no problem! Let us know if something works