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This is inside my android main, how can I access from my shared.  Is there another library I need to install?

you can use <https://github.com/yshrsmz/BuildKonfig>

Or just write a simple gradle task that generates it, no need to pull another dependency

Its doesn't cache it's tasks, I wouldn't use it

Write a simple gradle task?  Not sure what you mean, I’m a noobie.  Sorry

Create a task, let it generate a source file to the generated build dir and apply that task to your projects.

build_gradle_kts.kt

<https://kotlinlang.slack.com/files/UJQB4DJF7/F01JRSWV8QL/build_gradle_kts.kt> for example

but Android is a bit special and needs `registerJavaGeneratingTask` instead

actually if you're *only* targeting Android, then create the fields in defaultConfig and override them in flavors

it's not cacheable, you mean? true, but by <https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/build_cache.html|Gradle's own documentation>, "Some tasks, like <https://docs.gradle.org/current/dsl/org.gradle.api.tasks.Copy.html|Copy> or <https://docs.gradle.org/current/dsl/org.gradle.api.tasks.bundling.Jar.html|Jar>, usually do not make sense to make cacheable because Gradle is only copying files from one location to another. It also doesn’t make sense to make tasks cacheable that do not produce outputs or have no task actions." something like this is just copying from the build script to a file

pulling it out of cache is no better than re-running the task

It's generating source files and will trigger recompilations afaik

well, in this case the "inputs" include the build script due to the use of `doLast`, so that's unfortunate, but can be remedied by defining the task elsewhere properly

Or even simpler: just let your app module inject a simple data class into your modules