Is there a recommended way to create androidMain and androidTest modules?

# multiplatform

[Sam]

Is there a recommended way to create androidMain and androidTest modules?

[Kris Wong]

there's a lot more to it than that. you also need to apply the android gradle plugin, add your android block, associate it with the kotlin source sets, and add an AndroidManifest.xml

[Sam]

Yes i did that

[Sam]

It works as expected, i'm able to generate aar

[Sam]

but IDE doesn't highlight any errors for missing definitions

[Kris Wong]

can you paste your sourceSets block?

[Sam]

android {
    compileSdkVersion 29
    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 16
        targetSdkVersion 29
        versionCode 1
        versionName '1.0'
        testInstrumentationRunner 'android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner'
    }
    buildTypes {
        debug {
        }
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
        }
    }
    sourceSets {
        main {
            manifest.srcFile 'src/androidMain/AndroidManifest.xml'// See notes #4
            java.srcDirs = ['src/androidMain/kotlin']
            res.srcDirs = ['src/androidMain/resources']
        }
        androidTest {
            java.srcDirs = ['src/androidTest/kotlin']
            res.srcDirs = ['src/androidTest/resources']
        }
    }

    dependencies {
        androidTestImplementation 'com.android.support.test:runner:1.0.2'
    }
}

[Sam]

If it helps, here it the link for the entire file

https://github.com/Ethan1983/MultiplatformLib/blob/master/build.gradle

[Kris Wong]

this all looks correct

[Kris Wong]

did you rerun your gradle import?

[Sam]

yeah

[Sam]

i was looking for the official way to create androidMain and androidTest

[Sam]

right now if i create, it is just a directory

[Kris Wong]

if so, perhaps restart IDEA. it can get confused when you "migrate" a target like this

[Sam]

I suspect that IDE doesn't highlight errors because its not seen as a module

[Sam]

Okay, let me try restarting too

[Kris Wong]

that has actually fixed issues for me in the past when doing this

[Sam]

no luck, that didn't help, it doesn't mark it as a module

[Kris Wong]

huh

[Sam]

module vs directory

[Sam]

Does your setup show it as a module? Are you using Android Studio or IntelliJ?

[Kris Wong]

mine looks the same, but it works - IDEA

[Sam]

same as in androidMain shows as a directory?

[Kris Wong]

yes

[Kris Wong]

and it doesn't show as a module on the module settings dialog

[Sam]

Okay, do you remember how you created those?

[Sam]

@Kris Wong What version of JDK are you using?

[Kris Wong]

8

[Sam]

Thanks