I have questions, that I have yet to be able to fi...

# android

[Megh]

I have questions, that I have yet to be able to find the docs for it. When creating project in Android Studio, with gradle and android build plugins - few configurations are automatically added. Is there a way to identify which plugin is responsible for originating such configuration.

For example, Top level,

buildscript {
    ext.kotlin_version = '1.5.21'
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.0.0'
        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
    }
}
task clean(type: Delete) {
    delete rootProject.buildDir
}

I see that it automatically creates whole bunch of configurations. I want to find origin, and documentation for each of them.

My end goal is to identify if the configuration is used for runtime (production/distribution) or only in dev (compile/test/debug). I'm hitting stonewall. Any suggestions?

Here are some of the automatically generated configuration I'm trying to figure about:

"androidJdkImage",
  "compileOnlyDependenciesMetadata",
  "implementationDependenciesMetadata",
  "intransitiveDependenciesMetadata",
  "kotlinCompilerClasspath",
  "kotlinCompilerPluginClasspath",
  "kotlinCompilerPluginClasspathDebug",
  "kotlinCompilerPluginClasspathDebugAndroidTest",
  "kotlinCompilerPluginClasspathDebugUnitTest",
  "kotlinCompilerPluginClasspathRelease",
  "kotlinCompilerPluginClasspathReleaseUnitTest",
  "kotlinKlibCommonizerClasspath",
  "kotlinNativeCompilerPluginClasspath",
  "lintChecks",
  "lintClassPath",
  "lintPublish",
  "releaseAnnotationProcessorClasspath",
  "releaseAnnotationProcessorClasspath",
  "releaseApiDependenciesMetadata",
  "releaseCompileClasspath",
  "releaseCompileOnly",
  "releaseCompileOnlyDependenciesMetadata",
  "releaseImplementationDependenciesMetadata",
  "releaseIntransitiveDependenciesMetadata",
  "releaseReverseMetadataValues",
  "releaseRuntimeClasspath",
  "releaseRuntimeOnlyDependenciesMetadata",
  "releaseWearBundling",
  "runtimeOnlyDependenciesMetadata",