Just noticed that the alpha version of Compose enf...
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Vinay Gaba
09/15/2021, 4:53 PMJust noticed that the alpha version of Compose enforces a minCompileSdk of 31. Do we know if the stable version of Compose is also going to enforce this soon (my guess is that it probably will). The main reason we were trying to use alpha was because we wanted to leverage Kotlin 1.5.30.
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
09/15/2021, 5:09 PMI believe so, yes. Note that this is just the min compile version, it’s not target or min supported sdk version.
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Vinay Gaba
09/15/2021, 5:29 PMyup still causes a build failure so we were wondering why this is enforced so strictly given API 31 is still in beta.
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hfhbd
09/15/2021, 5:50 PMIts not, the API is stable. https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/07/android-12-beta-3.html
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Ian Lake
09/15/2021, 6:02 PMYep, API 31 has been finalized for quite some time now - you'll note that every AndroidX release compiles with API 31 now
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Vinay Gaba
09/15/2021, 6:06 PMI guess I need to step out of my rock 😄
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Adam Powell
09/15/2021, 7:14 PMwhat kind of build failure are you seeing?
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Vinay Gaba
09/15/2021, 7:34 PM Copy code
A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.CheckAarMetadataWorkAction
[2021-09-15T06:12:40Z] > The minCompileSdk (31) specified in a
[2021-09-15T06:12:40Z] dependency's AAR metadata (META-INF/com/android/build/gradle/aar-metadata.properties)
[2021-09-15T06:12:40Z] is greater than this module's compileSdkVersion (android-30).
[2021-09-15T06:12:40Z] Dependency: androidx.compose.foundation:foundation:1.1.0-alpha03.
[2021-09-15T06:12:40Z] AAR metadata file: /root/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/9173d0c5f8b12286fd4d73b5b01ba0d8/transformed/foundation-1.1.0-alpha03/META-INF/com/android/build/gradle/aar-metadata.propertiesh
hfhbd
09/15/2021, 8:32 PMYou just have to increase your compileSdkVersion to 31.
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