I read that the Multiplatform Plugin is supposed to compile only the targets requested of it, but Gradle is consistently building the (irrelevant) iOS Framework target, while building a depending Android project. 🐢 ⏱️ The Android project itself is not multiplatform - do I need to specify in the project dependency to only build the Android target?

It depends on your setup. If you have each platform under a separate module, building root module will build all submodules. However if you have each platform under a sourceSet, it should only build relevant sourceSets.

🤔 It's under source-set, and yet, it still builds iOS unnecessarily, every time (framework is not a short build either...).

i have not observed that issue with my projects