Add support for Gradle Kotlin DSL - #118067

@GaryQian could you review this one? I believe you landed a change related to Kotlin DSL?

@reidbaker

I will try to give this a look next week. You are correct there is some additional work that needs to happen for use to bring this feature out at a production ready level and I am not sure when my team will be able to do the rest of the work. Also our testing in this area is not such that I can rely on automated tests alone to trust that this will work.

All that said I agree that many would rather work in kotlin gradle rather than learn groovy and I dont want to discourage this sort of contribution.

In the mean time can you look at https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/master/packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/features.dart
Right now I am wavering between waiting to let this feature land when we can commit to have the support it deserves and guarding this behind a flag so that it can get incremental progress and some bake time.

The feature flag sounds reasonable, though I think that if somebody has build.gradle.kts instead of build.gradle, then they've already willingly opted-in :)

Yes that is one way of looking at it. Another, and the one I am using, is an android dev happens to use build.gradle.kts either because of a suggestion they find on the broader internet or because of previous android experience. An explicit opt in with the understanding that kotlin gradle support is experimental/under-development/baking or whatever phrase we decide to use helps align expectations better.

I am open to coming back to this discussion but for now I think i need to reject this cl. My team does not have the capacity to support adding a new build system. We know that build systems are not where app engineers want to spend their time and do not have the testing setup to ensure that this will keep working.

Additionally at the current time there is partial support for other IDE's. https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/kotlin_dsl.html#sec:ide_support

Thank you for the contribution.

@reidbaker Sorry for not responding for a prolonged time.

I agree with your comment and am willing to add a feature flag for this.

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