Kotlin and Android Development featuring Jetpack: apply plugin vs plugins {...} (page 37)

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Google strikes again… In ArcticFox 2020.3.1 patch 2 (Gradle 8.0), it looks like they changed Gradle’s syntax yet again in a way guaranteed to break every project that ever came before it.

Old version (printed in book):

apply plugin 'com.android application'
apply plugin 'kotlin-android'
apply plugin 'kotlin-kapt'

Revised version (based on syntax in ArcticFox build.gradle):

plugins {
    id 'com.android.application'
    id 'kotlin-android'
    id 'kotlin-kapt'
}
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Jeff,
You’re correct that the second version is the current way to write out plugins, but the old version should still work.
Also, a heads up that the version you posted has a few issues. You’re missing colons after plugin and the first plugin is missing a dot after android:

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt'

Let me know if that works!

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(blush) whoops, the lack of colon after plugin: and missing dot would definitely explain why my experiment to see whether the two syntaxes could coexist side by side failed. You’re 100% right, both syntaxes can exist side by side in the same build.gradle file.

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All good! And you do have the currently correct syntax in your first post, I may want to switch things over to avoid any confusion.