Has anyone configured buildSrc within an android p...

# gradle

[Brendan Weinstein]

Has anyone configured buildSrc within an android project to depend on a limited amount of code from your main app module? I have two classes from my main app module that I want to generate code based off. I googled and saw folks mention that you just need to specify the files from your main module in the buildSrc sourceSet, but I could not find an example of how to do this. I am playing around with buildSrc sourceSets right now, but would appreciate it if anyone has some code I could reference to save a few cycles

[Brendan Weinstein]

Eh, this approach seems problematic. I'd like to specify individual files to add to the sourceset, but based on naming it looks like you can just specify directories (both are File, but I'd expect an error based on naming).

I tried:

sourceSets {
    val main by getting
    println("currentDir: ${File(".").absolutePath}")
    main.java.srcDirs += File("../mobile/src/main/java/com/theathletic/analytics/newarch")
    main.java.srcDirs += File("../mobile/src/main/java")
}

I am going to try just copying the two files I need into buildSrc. Open to any thoughts on best practices here

[Brendan Weinstein]

copying the files out of the main module into buildSrc worked (since the classes did not have external dependencies) 👍

[Brendan Weinstein]

Eh it works with manual intervention. You can use settings.gradle.kts within buildSrc as an opportunity to run a script before buildSrc or anything else is compiled. This works fine from CLI, but Android Studio freaks out if you try to access anything here

[Brendan Weinstein]

Workaround hack is to wrap initialization script in try-catch so AndroidStudio works properly and you can copy files between projects before initial build