If I use Anvil in a Gradle library module, does it have to be a direct dependency of the app module ...

# squarelibraries

[Emanuel Moecklin]

If I use Anvil in a Gradle library module, does it have to be a direct dependency of the app module to have the Anvil generated modules (for the library) being included in the app Dagger components? We have a situation like this

app -> uses Anvil

|--- library a -> doesn't use Anvil

|--- library b -> uses Anvil

Even when we enable Anvil in library a, modules generated for library b aren't included in the app and the app crashes.
We don't want to add every single library to the app module directly so is there a way to have transitive dependencies with Anvil?

[ralf]

Use api dependencies and not implementation, then it’ll work.

[Emanuel Moecklin]

so api in library a? like api :library-b?

[ralf]

Yes

[ralf]

I suggest reading: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/java_library_plugin.html#sec:java_library_separation