Hello, World! Does anyone know if it's possible to have a MP project that both publishes an Android...

# multiplatform

[bod]

Hello, World! Does anyone know if it's possible to have a MP project that both publishes an Android library artifact (.aar), and contains an Android app sample. It appears to me that I find samples that either apply the com.android.library gradle plugin (to publish an aar artifact) or the com.android.application one (to have a sample app) - but of course you can't apply both. Ideas?

[Big Chungus]

That was possible with the old MPP plugins, where each target is a separate module rather than a sourceSet. Not so sure now 😕

[Sean Keane]

Build your aar in common as a library. Then you can have an application project that consumes that module and expose the application through that.

What is it you are trying to achieve exactly?

[bod]

well I'm trying to have a MP library to be consumed by Android and iOS and it would be nice if it contained a sample app in such a way that if I open the project in the IDE, I can just run the app. Instead of having a separate sample app project.

[bod]

I think @Sean Keane you're saying that it should be a separate project, right?

[Sean Keane]

All you need is a separate module

[bod]

oh! of course 🙂

[bod]

didn't think of that

[Sean Keane]

You can run the app from the app module and use your common code between both

[bod]

perfect 🙂 Thanks a lot

[Big Chungus]

Not really. I had same issue with the MPP library I'm working on as well. What I did was just a separate gradle module for the app that depends on the lib via implementation(project(":libModuleName"))

[bod]

yeah that makes sense now that I think of it 🙂

[Sean Keane]

^ yep. Separate module for the application that implements the library

[bod]

👍 thanks all!