Hey everyone! I have a question about Gradle configuration with Kotlin DSL in Android project. I w...

# gradle

[Guido Perre]

Hey everyone!

I have a question about Gradle configuration with Kotlin DSL in Android project.

I want to set the classpath of the project in "remote"(plugin, etc?) way ¿Is it possible? ¿Does anyone know how to do it?

[Vampire]

It's probably possible, but at least to me it is unclear what you are asking. Can you elaborate on what you mean?

[Guido Perre]

Of course. I have a multi-module project on Android and I want to have a single unified build script across all modules, mainly to avoid problems with plugins like hilt or changing the kotlin version in all repositories at the same time.

[Vampire]

Yep, sounds like you want to write and possibly publish a convention plugin. You can write it as precompiled script plugin or as conventional plugin.

[Guido Perre]

I tried creating a classpath.gradle.kts and apply it in build.gradle.kts like this:

buildscript {
  apply("gradle/classpath.gradle.kts")
}

but i have no luck 😞
I also created a plugin that sets the buildscript block but I get the following error message:
Cannot change dependencies of dependency configuration ':classpath' after it has been resolved.

[Vampire]

That apply seems pretty misplaced and syntactically wrong. As you have a script plugin there, it would be with apply(from = "...") and most likely outside the buildscript block. But I strongly advise against traditional script plugins, especially with Kotlin DSL as you there do not get the type-safe accessors generated. Instead you should use precompiled script plugins in an included build or, if you prefer, buildSrc. And you should read the documentation as it advised.

Just trying out stuff blindly of course does not work. But hey, an hour of trial and error can save you 5 minutes reading documentation. 😉

[Guido Perre]

Thanks for your answer. I was trying to solve that problem with stackoverflow or medium blogs, but it's true that i should read the documentation to get it. Do you have a link to get started? I saw that the gradle documentation is quite large and I just want to focus on my problem

[Vampire]

I'm on mobile, but the docs have a pretty good search and I intentionally gave you the proper buzzwords for it. 😉