Developing a KMP Compose library was fun until I r...

# compose-desktop

[Halil Ozercan]

Developing a KMP Compose library was fun until I realized that Android apps cannot depend on KMP compose libraries without applying org.jetbrains.compose plugin. This was unfortunate because I didn't feel right telling developers that they need to apply Desktop Compose plugin for their pure Android app just to use a library.

Luckily, this turns out to be just a dependency issue and dependencies are easily replaced in gradle before they are resolved. Adding the following configuration to Android App's build.gradle enables the use of KMP Compose dependencies.

configurations.all {
  resolutionStrategy.eachDependency { DependencyResolveDetails details ->
    if (details.requested.group.contains('org.jetbrains.compose')) {
      def groupName = details.requested.group.replace("org.jetbrains.compose", "androidx.compose")
      details.useTarget(
          [group: groupName, name: details.requested.name, version: details.requested.version]
      )
    }
  }
}