Hi! I see similar questions, but I did not quite f...

# gradle

[Feri Nagy]

Hi! I see similar questions, but I did not quite find my answer, so here we go again. I converted our gradle scripts to kotlin, extracting common version constants and logic to buildSrc. Now (hopefully) only last thing remains.
In the buildSrc/build.gradle.kts we have:

dependencies {
    implementation("com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.4.1")
}

Then in root project’s build.gradle.kts we have:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        google()
        ...
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.4.1")
        ...
    }
}

Is there a way so that the version 3.4.1 would be specified only in single place? Thanks for any tips.

[mbonnin]

Do you actually need classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.4.1") in your root gradle file ? I've read somewhere that dependencies of buildSrc are applied to other build scripts.

[mbonnin]

https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C19FD9681/p1566917000243000?thread_ts=1566572282.222900

[mbonnin]

I've been wanting to try that for some time now

[gildor]

As Martin said, you don’t need it in buildscript.classpath, it’s already in classpath

[Feri Nagy]

I tried that, but then the build failed. I’ll post the failure once I have a chance to switch back to my experimental branch.

[Feri Nagy]

Ok, so the problem is Unresolved reference: assembleProvider, which is weird, because if I comment it out, everything else works.

[Feri Nagy]

The problem is that if I define the android gradle plugin in buildscript classpath, i get correct version 3.4.1, but if i define same version in buildSrc, then inside app/build.gradle.kts I get 3.2.1. Any idea why that would happen?

[gildor]

How do you apply the plugin? Looks that some other dependency somehow add this dependency. Anyway, it should work, maybe you could reproduce it on some sample

[Feri Nagy]

Ok, so I tried stripping everything down and found out another plugin was causing the version 3.2.1. For the record, it was https://github.com/timfreiheit/ResourcePlaceholdersPlugin, so even when I removed my dependency on 3.4.1 from buildscripts classpath, this one would include its own on 3.2.1