Plugin implicitly applies AGP

[rlnt]

Please complete the following information:

• Library Version 0.7.0

Describe the Bug:
The stability analyzer Gradle plugin implicitly applies the Android Gradle plugin. I upgraded from 0.6.6 to 0.7.0, and the project no longer builds, because the newest IntelliJ IDEA version is only compatible with AGP 8.12.0. This plugin applies AGP 8.13.1.

Expected Behavior:

This Gradle plugin should not automatically apply the AGP. Users should still be allowed to pick the AGP version they want. If you really rely on some functionality of AGP 8.13.1, please throw an error instead of automatically applying a newer version that overrides the local version.

[matejdro]

I don't think this can be avoided. Plugin pulls the AGP API artifact and puts it on the classpath. And since you cannot have multiple versions of different artifact, Gradle will bump the AGP API (and all other relevant artifacts), to the latest version, which happens to be 8.13.1 from this plugin.

[matejdro]

By the way, there is a workaround that allows IntelliJ to work on the 8.13.1: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-348937/2024.1-Beta-missing-option-to-enable-sync-with-future-AGP-versions#focus=Comments-27-11721710.0-0

[rlnt]

It would be very helpful to mention the AGP version in the changelog, then. It's a hidden mechanism that bumps the AGP version, and I had to binary search through my plugins to find which one was causing it.

[rlnt]

By the way, there is a workaround that allows IntelliJ to work on the 8.13.1: youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-348937/2024.1-Beta-missing-option-to-enable-sync-with-future-AGP-versions#focus=Comments-27-11721710.0-0

This may be true, but if this ever happens again, and this happens to be a major version like AGP 9, this workaround does not work.