shorty

The repository was used as an example for a presentation about Gradle Conventions.

The slides reside in the root of the repository Conventional development.pdf

Try it out

• Create a new project in Android Studio. I created one with an empty compose activity.

• Switch to a branch which has the conventions - I use the branch "programmatic-convention" (other branch is dsl-convention)

• Copy the folder "build-logic" and paste it into the root of your project

• Add this line to your setting-gradle file

includeBuild("build-logic")

I generally put it below my actual settings and above my regular includes. Like this:

rootProject.name = "My Application"
includeBuild("build-logic")
include(":app")

• Modify your app build.gradle.kts file to use the convention. Add this line to your plugins declarations.

id("shorty.application")

Since the convention include the android and kotlin plugins our plugins declaration now looks like this:

plugins {
    id("shorty.application")
    alias(libs.plugins.kotlin.compose)
}

• Sync gradle - it should now work.

• Remove unnecessary code from the application build.gradle.kts.