I recall there being a way to separate out dependency declarations from

build.gradle

into a separate file

dependencies.gradle

. Is it as simple as just copy-pasting the entire

dependencies { ... }

block into the new file and it just magically works?

you'll also need to

apply from: "dependencies.gradle"

in order to include it

ah, i also needed:

// See explanation of these two lines here: l<https://github.com/gradle/kotlin-dsl/issues/843#issuecomment-384988820>
val implementation by configurations
val testImplementation by configurations

or you can just use dynamic syntax: “implementation”(“some:dependency:1.0")