Hi . I am doing some experiments with gradle and t...

# gradle

[A. Sachdeva]

Hi . I am doing some experiments with gradle and the kotlin-dsl gradle plugin for android.

So far i really liked the concept of configuring dependencies via a single buildSrc/src/main/Dependencies.kt file. I want to take it a step further and have the whole app configuration configured from pure kotlin files. is that possible?

something like the old apply from("${project.rootDir}/commons.gradle") , but for koltin , like if i add an android library, all i need to do is add a build.gradle.kts file in library root with some static function call, like GradleConfigurations.librarySetup(this) and there i could automatically setup project plugins, dependencies, the android{} block, etc?

How to do that? So far i have been able to do this for the root level build.gradle.kts file, but app/build.gradle.kts seems to use internal/inaccessible extensions. so any other approach ?

[Vampire]

You could use the same "apply from" tactic, but actually that's not idiomatic and has drawbacks like not getting accessors generated. The better way is to use precompiled script plugins in an included build or buildSrc that you then apply in your main build. Those are usually called convention plugins.

[A. Sachdeva]

@Vampire i got the same suggestion in another slack group. will look into creating plugins . thanks!