Hello, I have a question regarding the Gradle Convention Plugins for modularized structure-Shared bu...

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[Momin Tahir]

Hello, I have a question regarding the Gradle Convention Plugins for modularized structure-Shared build logic.
If you check these below mentioned links
1. https://levelup.gitconnected.com/gradle-convention-plugins-shared-build-logic-android-muti-module-project-6bf090ee043a
2. https://proandroiddev.com/gradle-kotlin-convention-plugins-for-modularized-structure-shared-build-logic-e740e1f07e88
Reference Project: https://github.com/android/nowinandroid

They have mentioned a step where we need to add includeBuild("build-logic") in settings.gradle.kts (Project Settings).
And after that we need to enable version catalog feature in settings.gradle.kts (Included build:build-logic).

So now my question is where does this settings.gradle.kts (Included build:build-logic) comes from ? Do we need to add this file manually by doing copy and paste ?

[CLOVIS]

It's this file: https://github.com/android/nowinandroid/blob/main/build-logic/settings.gradle.kts

As you can see, it already has the version catalog configured.

[Momin Tahir]

yes exactly. Where does it comes from ? Because when I try to make my build-logic as a module it doesn't come along with it.

[CLOVIS]

How do you create it?

[Momin Tahir]

yes that's my question. How do you create it

[CLOVIS]

Because when I try to make my build-logic as a module it doesn't come along with it.

What did you do?

[CLOVIS]

You can just create the files manually if you want.

[Momin Tahir]

Just added a folder and named it "build-logic". Then I went to settings.gradle (project settings) file and added

includeBuild("build-logic")

under pluginManagement {}

[CLOVIS]

a "build" in Gradle world is a folder that contains a settings.gradle.kts . If you do not create that file, you can't configure the build.

[Momin Tahir]

that means after adding
includeBuild("build-logic")
We have to create our own settings.gradle.kts under build-logic folder ?

[CLOVIS]

Yes

[CLOVIS]

You can copy the one from the sample

[Momin Tahir]

Alright. Thanks 🙂