Problems using Gradle plugin 9+

[pozirk]

Hey there,

I moved to Android SDK 37, Gradle 9.4.1 and Gradle plugin 9.2.1.
This resulted in 2 error messages:

unable to resolve class groovy.swing.SwingBuilder

This one I fixed by commenting out everything with SwingBuilder at "\templates\android\template\app\build.gradle".
Line 1 and line 97-143.

Another problem:

Could not get unknown property 'applicationVariants' for object of type com.android.build.gradle.internal.dsl.ApplicationExtensionImpl$AgpDecorated

Again, fixed by commenting out lines 79-85

After that I could build and run my app with no ptoblems.
I'm not sure if these are good long term solutions, would be nice to have it fixed properly.
Thank you.

[player-03]

The first is related to #1115, which cites this blog post. The post starts off by explaining that you can easily do this from the console, or if that doesn't work for your users, you can use SwingBuilder to display a visual interface.

Popping up a new window from Groovy means Lime has to support a whole entire other windowing system just for this one use case. It's been a (small) problem in the past, as seen in #1471, and it's a problem again, so I'd say it's time to scrap it. I don't know everyone's workflow, but I have to imagine most OpenFL/Lime users are comfortable with the console. Edit: Apparently there are multiple common cases where it just won't be able to access System.console(). Guess there was a reason for the popup window after all.

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The second one is mine (#828). To be honest, I'm surprised it still works if you comment it. Does Lime install the app for you, or do you have a separate process?

[pozirk]

I actually install apk manually, so that's probably why commenting out applicationVariants didn't cause any problems for me.
Just noticed that the file name is generic app-release.apk. :)

[player-03]

It does look like the API changed, but when I tried following that example it didn't work either.

::if (ANDROID_GRADLE_PLUGIN>="7.0")::
androidComponents.onVariants { variant ->
	variant.outputs.all { output ->
		outputFileName =  "::APP_FILE::-" + variant.buildType.name + ".apk"
	}
}
::else::
applicationVariants.all { variant ->
	variant.outputs.all { output ->
		outputFileName =  "::APP_FILE::-" + variant.buildType.name + ".apk"
	}
}
::end::

As far as I can tell, the latest version of Android Gradle Plugin can't access either applicationVariants or androidComponents.onVariants. Which doesn't make sense because the latter has been in the documentation for several versions now. androidComponents exists and has several accessible properties, just not onVariants.

I found one result for "Could not find method onVariants()", and it was unresolved other than some speculation about a missing dependency. But the documentation gives no indication that you'd have to import anything, much less what to import.

Honestly, I'm wondering if I should just delete and reinstall the whole Android SDK. Maybe it just works on a fresh install.