Gradle 8.5 & AGP 8.1.4 uprades #28
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Release notes: https://docs.gradle.org/8.5/release-notes.html
Upgrading to Gradle 8.5 comes with two major benefits:
I also ended up needing to upgrade to AGP 8.1.4 to get the project to build again. AGP 7.4.0 was using a Kotlin version older than what is being used in Gradle 8.5 that led to this super useful error message:
As part of the AGP 8.1.4 upgrade I was also able to delete the
AndroidManifest.xml
file and just add anamespace
entry in the build.gradle.kts file with the package name. More info here