What's new in AGP 9.0 and beyond
summary
AGP 9.0 is a breaking major release that requires Gradle 9, lands a R8 keep-class change (default constructors no longer implied but kept behind a flag for upgrades), makes the legacy variant API opt-in with removal planned in ~1 year, and integrates Kotlin plugin support into AGP (KSP source compatibility is ready pending a KSP release). Sync is reworked to stream results so the IDE becomes usable earlier, and a declarative build DSL with IDE completion and composable extensibility is prototyped and shipping in Canary.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:13Tooling philosophy
- 5:18AGP 9.0 release
- 8:28Legacy variant API
- 11:59Third-party plugins
- 14:51Future of AGP
- 15:13Sync improvements
- 19:13Declarative build scripts
- 23:19Q&A
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