Hey all :wave: Sharing this small article about my...

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[gammax]

Hey all 👋
Sharing this small article about my Android/Kotlin template setup, and the 5 steps I do just before starting a new project:
https://medium.com/@cortinico/my-android-project-template-1c0a7069ae31

[Nikky]

for managing dependencies and versions i prefer to also add https://github.com/jmfayard/refreshVersions

you just declare group:name:_ and where it sees _ as version it looks up the version from a properties fine in the root of the project

it also puts newer available versions as comments in that file

and has most kotlin and android maven coordinates for projects made available like your buildSrc (probably not all.. but most that i ended up needing)

[gammax]

Cool, I was not aware of refreshVersion 👍 However, I was thinking about migrating to Gradle lockfiles (also as with 6.4 there is the possibility to use a single lockfile only)

[Nikky]

depednency locking looks quite similar.. just the available versions are missing..

version.kotlinx.serialization=0.20.0
##                # available=0.20.0-1.4-M1-release-99
##                # available=0.20.0-1.4-M2
##                # available=0.20.0-1.4-M3-eap-38
##                # available=0.20.0-1.4.0-dev-5730

and it allows for customization of the keys
(like grouping.. since all ktor artifacts share the same version for example)

[gammax]

Oh that’s really cool 🧐

[Joost Klitsie]

It looks really cool (and a bit overwhelming at first 😄 ) I have a question for the android appliction: why do you apply there the multiplatform plugin instead of the application plugin? Is that necessary?

[gammax]

Thanks 👍 I’m not applying the Kotlin Multiplatform plugin 🤔

[Joost Klitsie]

@gammax okay I am retarded, I was meaning to write that to another project template post I saw just now as well 😄 But the first part still stands, I liked your post and the template/steps are very helpful (though be it less overwhelming, as the other one is a combining basically every app imaginable in 1 project template 🙂 )