hello folks, I was trying to understand `internal`...

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[Suraj]

hello folks, I was trying to understand internal modifier and found that visibility is restricted to a module. And definition of module in context of gradle as per doc is :
a Gradle source set (with the exception that the test source set can access the internal declarations of main);
a)What does gradle source set mean? Does it mean a gradle module(talking in terms of an android project) or some subset of it?
b)Do we have any advantages of using internal in a multi module project? like reduces incremental build time or so?

[yole]

“Gradle source set” means exactly what it says: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/building_java_projects.html#sec:java_source_sets

[yole]

the advantage of reducing visibility is always the same: ensuring a clean structure of your codebase and avoiding unwanted dependencies. you should always think about that, and not about build time

[Suraj]

okay: 👍 thanks man