Hi all! I want to create convention plugins in separate folder. All is going ok except ‘android’ ext...

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[Sanendak]

Hi all! I want to create convention plugins in separate folder. All is going ok except ‘android’ extension doesn’t appear until if I copy internal kotlin extension

[Sanendak]

/**
 * Configures the [android][com.android.build.gradle.internal.dsl.BaseAppModuleExtension] extension.
 */
fun org.gradle.api.Project.`android`(configure: Action<com.android.build.gradle.internal.dsl.BaseAppModuleExtension>): Unit =
    (this as org.gradle.api.plugins.ExtensionAware).extensions.configure("android", configure)

I’m talking about this ext

[Sanendak]

AS Chipmunk RC2

[Vampire]

How / where do you write the convention plugin.
Convention plugin just means you are defining some conventions in it, not how you write them. Script plugins, pre-compiled script plugins, binary plugins, Groovy DSL, Kotlin DSL, ...

[Sanendak]

Moved from a Precompiled Kotlin Script Plugin (.gradle.kts) to a Kotlin Plugin (.kt). And everything works. Thanks @handstandsam for example!

[handstandsam]

Awesome @Sanendak, glad you were able to use my open source repo as an example! Please ⭐ 😄

[Sanendak]

Just to clarify. I wanted to use this extension outside app/library module. Turned up that .kt is better

[handstandsam]

Not sure I understand your use case, but these sort of plugins can be used on any modules.

[Sanendak]

I’ve created build-logic folder like on this repo. But cannot use android block in any .kts file 😕

[Vampire]

It must be *.gradle.kts and you have to apply the Android plugin from its plugins block to get the accessors generated. But I thought you use binary plugins coming from *.kt files now.

[Vampire]

That's why I asked for the details you refused to provide. ;-)

[Sanendak]

Originally I wanted to use .gradle.kts with android block (screenshot). Now i’m switched to .kt and using project.extensions.getByName("android").
I hope that now I was able to correctly explain the problem 😉

[Vampire]

As I said, it will work with android block if you apply the corresponding Android plugin in the plugins { ... } block of the same precompiled script plugin.
Getting the extension by Type or by name always works in both, precompiled script plugins, binary plugins, and everywhere else.