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Is
```plugins {
    id 'org.jetbrains.kotlin:android' version "$kotlin_version"
}```
alternative syntax for:
```apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'```
? Apologies for the noob question.

Mostly yes. `plugins {}`  will support more things like retrieving the jar from the pluginId and generating accessors but both apply the Android plugin

You can read more at <https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/plugins.html#sec:constrained_syntax>

Thanks <@U79JY5TL3>! I just got this however:
`A problem occurred evaluating project ':app'.`
`&gt; plugin id 'org.jetbrains.kotlin:android' is invalid: Plugin id contains invalid char ':' (only ASCII alphanumeric characters, '.', '_' and '-' characters are valid)`

what I did is:
`id 'org.jetbrains.kotlin:android' version "$kotlin_version"`

`"org.jetbrains.kotlin.android"` is what you want

You can get the list of all pluginIds contained in `kotlin-gradle-plugin.jar` at <https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/tree/master/libraries/tools/kotlin-gradle-plugin/src/main/resources/META-INF/gradle-plugins>

<https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/interop/adding> uses the colon though

A jar file (with the colon) can contain multiple pluginIds (without the colon)

But that does look like a typo indeed :eyes:

Good catch. It's definitely worth reporting it, this is confusing

<@U79JY5TL3> still getting this:
Error resolving plugin [id: ‘org.jetbrains.kotlin.android’, version: ‘1.5.30’]
&gt; Plugin request for plugin already on the classpath must not include a version

```classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"```


Yes, you need to use either one or the other but not both