Gradle Kotlin DSL: Inspection "Newer Library Versions Available" not working - android

I have converted my Gradle build scripts to the Kotlin DSL. Since I was starting with a small new project, everything went according to plan. When referencing more and more dependencies I wanted to put their version numbers in the script as constants, especially for those versions which are used in several places.
In my app/build.gradle.kts I have basically the following:
dependencies {
implementation("androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.0.0")
...
}
Android Studio inspections tell me, that I should upgrade to 1.1.0. I changed it to
val appCompat = "1.0.0"
dependencies {
implementation("androidx.appcompat:appcompat:$appCompat")
...
}
but now I do not get that inspection hint anymore.
I compared my Kotlin script to what I find in the Sunflower reference project and found it to be working there. So, I experimented with defining extra-values with
extra.apply {
set("appCompat", "1.0.0")
}
implementation("androidx.appcompat:appcompat:${extra["appCompat"]}")
but got no inspection hint either.
To me, it seems that the inspection is broken using the Kotlin DSL. Do you agree or do you have a working setup for this?

In my environment inspection is broken also. So I used from third-party plugin and run it task in some interval for checking available update and manage it.
More details: https://github.com/jmfayard/gradle-dependencies-plugins

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How to access LibraryExtension in custom gradle plugin

I would like to write a custom gradle plugin that manipulates either com.android.build.gradle.AppExtension or com.android.build.gradle.LibraryExtension. The basic form of the plugin is:
class AndroidLibrary : Plugin<Project> {
override fun apply(project: Project) {
var lib: LibraryExtension = project.extensions.getByName("android") as LibraryExtension
lib.minSdkVersion = "26"
}
}
The problem is that the class LibraryExtension cannot be resolved. That class is contained in "com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.1.2". Note, there is no problem accessing either of these classes in a gradle.build.kts script file. I just can't access either of those classes from within a custom plugin like seen above. I've tried adding a dependency to com.android.tools.build.gradle 7.1.2 in the build script, but that doesn't work. I also tried adding it as a buildscript dependency, and that didn't help either. I also got the
com.android.tools.build:gradle jar file and added it as a dependency, but that too didn't work.
It seems to me to be reasonable to expect a custom plugin of being able to manipulate the android build settings but I just can't find a way to resolve either LibraryExtension or AppExtension from within the custom plugin project.
If someone knows what I need to do to resolve those two classes, that would be greatly appreciated. I'm currently under the impression, that this is an architectural limitation of with android's gradle plugin and that I really can't access the "android" build section using LibraryExtension or AppExtension from a custom plugin and dsl. If that is the case, that too would be useful to know.
check this answer for your question, it is gonna solve your problem.
Initially I was building the plugin using IDEA. I could build the project by using a "gradlew build" command. I noticed that I would get the following message whenever I tried to sync the project:
This version of the Android Support plugin for IntelliJ IDEA (or Android Studio) cannot open this project, please retry with version 2020.1.1 or newer
I had been ignoring that issue since I could successfully build the project using gradle commands. Here's a link the explains what the message means: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/4405168877202-This-version-of-the-Android-Support-plugin-for-IntelliJ-IDEA-or-Android-Studio-cannot-open-this-project-please-retry-with-version-2020-3-1-or-newer-
One of the suggestions to this problem was to build the project in Android Studio instead of waiting for IDEA to incorporate later android build. I did that and that indeed fixed that issue. The additional side effect was that I could now build the plugin. I was able to add dependencies for both gradleApi and to com.android.build.gradle and was able to resolve AppExtension of LibraryExtension. I had added the same dependencies I when I was using IDEA IDE. I had been customarily building my custom gradle plugin using IDEA. This was my first custom gradle plugin that I was going to manipulate an "android" build configuration.

How to get rid of Kotlin DSL warnings

I have just started learning KotlinDSL recently.
And in Android added buildSrc. In this folder I have module plugins: AppModulePlugin, CommonModulePlugin, FeatureModulePlugin. All of this compiles and the application installs correctly, everything is fine. but in these files a warning is displayed:
Cannot access 'com.android.build.gradle.internal.dsl.Lockable'
which is a supertype of 'com.android.build.gradle.BaseExtension'.
Check your module classpath for missing or conflicting dependencies
Please tell me how to get rid of these warnings?
IntelliJ has had this issue for months unfortunately - it reports correct code as invalid. See KTIJ-3769. I believe it's dependent on ticket KTIJ-19669.
As a workaround you can either replace the helper methods that the plugins introduce with 'plain' Gradle Kotlin
// androidExtension { }
project.extensions.configure<BaseExtension> {
}
Or only create buildSrc plugins in Kotlin (*.kt files), not Kotlin Script (*.kts files). This requires using the java-gradle-plugin and defining the plugins in buildSrc/build.gradle.kts.

Android kotlin plugin 1.5.0 doesn'r recognize newest Duration API

In our Android app, I just upgraded the kotlin plugin to 1.5.0.
In top level build.gradle.kts:
buildscript {
dependencies {
classpath("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.5.0")
And in app build.gradle.kts:
dependencies {
implementation("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.5.0")
Now, when building, I get a bunch of deprecation warnings about the Duration API used in such statements:
#ExperimentalTime
val myVal = 2.seconds
Warning says: 'seconds: Duration' is deprecated. Use Duration.seconds() function instead.
OK, so I proceed with the replacement like asked:
val myVal = Duration.seconds(2)
Now, the seconds() method appears in red in Android Studio with the error message: Expression 'seconds' cannot be invoked as a function. The function 'invoke()' is not found
It seems somehow that Android Studio is mixing Kotlin 1.5 with 1.4 I guess. Is there somewhere else than the two mentioned libraries on top that should be changed to point to kotlin 1.5?
I've tried invalidating the cache and remove all build folders without success.
According to Jetbrains on the Kotlin reddit, despite some 1.5.0 artifacts being available on maven central repo allready, Kotlin 1.5.0 is not yet officially released. Some bits and pieces are missing among others the IDE plugins, which explains the problem.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotlin/comments/n0gt0d/is_kotlin_150_released/

Android Databinding build fail after Gradle plugin update with migration to annotationProcessor

To support Instant Run in my version of Android Studio, I needed to upgrade my Gradle plugin from version 2.2.3 to 2.3.3
I'm aware I'm supposed to migrate to annoationProcessor and I believe I've followed that guide correctly
after doing so, the Android DataBinding code generation fails
The migration guide linked earlier states that all I need is to
Make sure you are on the Android Gradle 2.2 plugin or newer
Remove the android-apt plugin from your build scripts
Change all apt, androidTestApt and testApt dependencies to their new format
This should be all that's needed to successfully build the project. Yet it doesn't build.
Build output
Gradle build finished with 101 error(s) and 23 warning(s) in 12s 481ms
All of the errors follow the same pattern:
C:\Users...\FooAdapter.java
error: package com.example.app.databinding does not exist
error: cannot find symbol class ItemFooBinding
An interesting message can be found in the build console:
Warning:The following options were not recognized by any processor: '[android.databinding.minApi, android.databinding.enableDebugLogs, android.databinding.sdkDir, android.databinding.bindingBuildFolder, android.databinding.enableForTests, android.databinding.modulePackage, android.databinding.generationalFileOutDir, android.databinding.xmlOutDir, android.databinding.artifactType, android.databinding.printEncodedErrors, android.databinding.isTestVariant]'
I would like to point out that...
I presume I don't have an error in some XML file, binding expression or a naming issue. The same set of sources and XML build when I switch back to the Git branch with the old gradle plugin version (and all of the other source files up-to-date)
I did increase the limit of output build errors as discussed here, although this doesn't seem to be relevant right now, since as you can see, I currently have "only" 101 errors. :)
Additional info
The following diffs show how I've modified my gradle files:
build.gradle DiffChecker link
app/build.gradle DiffChecker link
Also, as a quick overview, here is the list of some of the "more interesting" plugins & libraries used by the project:
Kotlin
Android DataBinding
Realm
Retrofit
Dagger
ButterKnife (I know...)
Multidex Support Library
Does anyone have a clue what could be the issue? Any help or idea will be greatly apprecitated!
I had exactly the same warning. This line in gradle solved the issue:
kapt "com.android.databinding:compiler:3.0.1"
Hopefully, it will help somebody
Update:
3.0.1 is Android Plugin Version.
When you see innumerable build errors mentioning databinding as in this case, the problem usually lies somewhere else. Databinding just gets stopped in its tracks by unrelated build problems and complains exceedingly loudly. The only way to deal with it is to locate the build errors that are not tied to databinding. Once they are fixed, databinding can do its thing again and be silent. Unfortunately you often have to repeat this approach several times until you have found all non-databinding issues. It's an arduous task for sure, but unfortunately there is nothing else you can do until Google manages to provide a saner build environment.
This is the reason why you are advised to increase the build error limit beyond 100 - you would not see the actual errors causing your problems, because they commonly do not show up early in the list.
I will chance a guess - Dagger 2 is a common source of triggering this problem, which could be related to your annotationProcessor change; so look out for Dagger errors. But your issues could be caused by other things, like other annotation processors as you mentioned - you wouldn't know for sure until you diligently dig through your build errors.
It seems it all comes down to my project using Kotlin. Actually we have it mixed: some classes use plain old Java while others are written in Kotlin. An incomplete migration. :)
I assume that without Kotlin, replacing apt with annotationProcessor would be enough and I wouldn't have ran into this issue at all.
Solution
Annotations need to be processed by both annotationProcessor and kapt, which seems to be Kotlin's own annotation processor.
For each Gradle dependency that uses annotations, you should have both of the following in your app-level build.gradle:
annotationProcessor 'com.example.my.library:x.y.z
kapt 'com.example.my.library:x.y.z

Kotlin class NoClassDefFoundError crash

I have an existing Android Project that uses the following libs:
AutoValue
Dagger2
RxJava
Retrolambda
I am trying to add Kotlin Support so that I can slowly migrate the project over to Kotlin.
Here is what I have done.
Added Kotlin dependency.
Converted one of the classes over to Kt class and moved over to src/main/kotlin/..package..
Added kotlin in source set.
sourceSets {
main.java.srcDirs += 'src/main/kotlin'
}
When I do a clean build and deploy the app, I get NoClassDefFoundError exception. However, If I deploy again it works just fine.
Any suggestions? I do not have any annotation in the class I converted so I did not apply kapt plugin.
Note: I am using latest kotlin 1.0.4. Also I have instant run disabled.
Go to Files > Settings and turn off completely Instant Run, I mean all checkboxes should be unchecked.
Clean and rebuild project.
Then it should work
Edit: As you said that Instant is disabled - using protip check your configuration and update Gradle and Android Studio if you're not using the latest.
According to this issue, changing Gradle plugin version from 2.10 to 2.14.1 may help.
Protip:
Use combination Ctrl+Shift+A to find commands like
Configure Kotlin in Project
Configure Kotlin Updates
Convert Java File to Kotlin
first you need to configure you android studio with kotlin , for this need to add kotlin plugin in android studio, and then need to add dependencies and then convert java classes to kotlin please have look this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN2EDdycZ3c
Suffix the Kotlin classes with kt when calling them from Java.
Otherwise add #file:JvmName("Utils") before the package in the Kotlin class if you must call it in java with whatever custom name you wish like Utils in this case.
more details can be found here

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