does anyone know the difference between the kotlin-android and kotlin-android-extensions plugins? i ...

# android

[basher]

does anyone know the difference between the kotlin-android and kotlin-android-extensions plugins? i see people applying both, but i can't find any official doc reference to kotlin-android anymore

[Drew Hamilton]

I think ‘kotlin-android’ is what you need for Kotlin to work at all in an Android module. Like ‘kotlin.jvm’ or ‘kotlin.multiplatform’, but for Android.
‘kotlin-android-extensions’ does extra stuff like generating synthetic View references and enabling the @Parcelize annotation.

[jw]

yes. (and actually you should use org.jetbrains.kotlin.android not kotlin-android)

[basher]

so apply plugin: 'org.jetbrains.kotlin.android' ?

[jw]

yep!

[basher]

thanks!

[Bulat Mukhutdinov]

@jw could you please explain why it is so?