Is ```plugins { id 'org.jetbrains.kotlin:android' version "$kotlin_version" }``` alternative syn...

# gradle

[Alexander Suraphel]

Is

plugins {
    id 'org.jetbrains.kotlin:android' version "$kotlin_version"
}

alternative syntax for:

apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'

? Apologies for the noob question.

[mbonnin]

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

[mbonnin]

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

[Alexander Suraphel]

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

[Alexander Suraphel]

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

[mbonnin]

Oops yep, my bad

[mbonnin]

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

[mbonnin]

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

[Alexander Suraphel]

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

[Alexander Suraphel]

is it a typo?

[mbonnin]

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

[mbonnin]

But that does look like a typo indeed 👀

[mbonnin]

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

[Alexander Suraphel]

oh okay

[Alexander Suraphel]

@mbonnin still getting this:
Error resolving plugin [id: ‘org.jetbrains.kotlin.android’, version: ‘1.5.30’]

Plugin request for plugin already on the classpath must not include a version

[Alexander Suraphel]

could it be this

[Alexander Suraphel]

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

[mbonnin]

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

[mbonnin]

(or just remove the version)