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Android Gradle Plugin 3.5.0 (August 2019)
Android Gradle plugin 3.5.0, along with
Android Studio 3.5, is a major release
and a result of Project Marble, which is a focus on improving three main
areas of the Android developer tools: system health, feature polish, and
fixing bugs. Notably,
improving project
build speed was a main focus for this update.
For information about these and other Project Marble updates, read the
Android
Developers blog post or the sections below.
This version of the Android plugin requires the following:
|
Minimum version |
Default version |
Notes |
| Gradle |
5.4.1 |
5.4.1 |
To learn more, see updating Gradle. |
| SDK Build Tools |
28.0.3 |
28.0.3 |
Install or configure SDK Build Tools. |
3.5.4 (July 2020)
This minor update supports compatibility with new default settings and
features for
package visibility
in Android 11.
See the 4.0.1 release notes for details.
3.5.3 (December 2019)
This minor update supports Android Studio 3.5.3 and includes various bug
fixes and performance improvements.
3.5.2 (November 2019)
This minor update supports Android Studio 3.5.2 and includes various bug
fixes and performance improvements.
To see a list of noteable bug fixes, read the related post on the
Release Updates blog.
3.5.1 (October 2019)
This minor update supports Android Studio 3.5.1 and includes various bug
fixes and performance improvements.
To see a list of noteable bug fixes, read the related post on the
Release Updates blog.
Incremental annotation processing
The Data Binding
annotation processor supports
incremental annotation processing
if you set android.databinding.incremental=true in your
gradle.properties file. This optimization results in improved
incremental build performance. For a full list of optimized annotation
processors, refer to the table of incremental annotation
processors.
Additionally, KAPT 1.3.30 and higher also support incremental annotation
processors, which you can enable by including kapt.incremental.apt=true in
your gradle.properties file.
Cacheable unit tests
When you enable unit tests to use Android resources, assets, and
manifests by setting
includeAndroidResources
to true, the Android Gradle plugin generates a test config file
containing absolute paths, which breaks cache relocatability. You can instruct
the plugin to instead generate the test config using relative paths, which
allows the AndroidUnitTest task to be fully cacheable, by
including the following in your gradle.properties file:
android.testConfig.useRelativePath = true
Known issues
-
When using Kotlin Gradle plugin 1.3.31 or earlier, you might see the
following warning when building or syncing your project:
WARNING: API 'variant.getPackageLibrary()' is obsolete and has been replaced
with 'variant.getPackageLibraryProvider()'.
To resolve
this issue,
upgrade the plugin to version 1.3.40 or higher.
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