Project doesn't build after upgrading to android gradle plugin 3.0.0+ - gradle

Question

after migrating to Android 3.0 I've changed gradle configurations in my projects.
In one of them I get errors while trying to do the build:
Execution failed for task ':app:compileDebugKotlin'.
e: C:\dev\myapp\app\src\main\kotlin\com\xxxxx\dialog\DeleteConfirmDialog.kt: (35, 46): Too many arguments for public constructor Builder(p0: Context!) defined in android.app.AlertDialog.Builder
e: C:\dev\myapp\app\src\main\kotlin\com\xxxxx\dialog\HumidityThresholdDialog.kt: (46, 74): Too many arguments for public open fun getString(p0: String!): String! defined in android.os.Bundle
e: C:\dev\myapp\app\src\main\kotlin\com\xxxxx\dialog\PermissionDialog.kt: (45, 50): Unresolved reference: ACTION_APcomICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS
e: C:\dev\myapp\app\src\main\kotlin\com\xxxxx\dialog\PermissionDialog.kt: (53, 22): Unresolved reference: finishAffinity
e: C:\dev\myapp\app\src\main\kotlin\com\xxxxx\dialog\TemperatureThresholdDialog.kt: (74, 73): Unresolved reference: holo_red_dark
e: C:\dev\myapp\app\src\main\kotlin\com\xxxxx\dialog\TemperatureThresholdDialog.kt: (81, 88): Unresolved reference: holo_red_dark
e: C:\dev\myapp\app\src\main\kotlin\com\xxxxx\fragment\Thresholds.kt: (128, 41): Unresolved reference: fragmentManager
e: C:\dev\myapp\app\src\main\kotlin\com\xxxxx\fragment\Thresholds.kt: (153, 38): Unresolved reference: fragmentManager
...
What is interesting, when I navigate to error lines, eg:
val color = if (it) android.R.color.black else android.R.color.holo_red_dark //Unresolved reference: holo_red_dark
dialog.show(activity.fragmentManager, ThresholdDialog::class.java.simpleName) //Unresolved reference: fragmentManager
the compiler doesn't show an error and I can navigate to those classes.
Project:
buildscript {
repositories {
google()
jcenter()
maven { url 'https://raw.github.com/vRallev/mvn-repo/master/' }
maven { url 'https://maven.fabric.io/public' }
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.1' //<--- when reverting back to 2.3.3, the project is built without problems
classpath 'io.fabric.tools:gradle:1.23.0'
}
}
allprojects {
repositories {
google()
jcenter()
mavenCentral()
maven { url 'https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/' }
}
}
App:
buildscript {
ext.versions = [
kotlin : '1.1.60',
crashlytics: '1.16.0'
]
repositories {
mavenCentral()
maven { url 'http://download.crashlytics.com/maven' }
maven { url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/" }
maven { url 'https://maven.fabric.io/public' }
}
dependencies {
classpath "com.crashlytics.tools.gradle:crashlytics-gradle:$versions.crashlytics"
classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$versions.kotlin"
classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-android-extensions:$versions.kotlin"
classpath "org.kordamp:markdown-gradle-plugin:1.1.0"
classpath 'io.fabric.tools:gradle:1.23.0'
}
}
repositories {
maven { url 'https://maven.fabric.io/public' }
maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
mavenLocal()
mavenCentral()
}
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'io.fabric'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions'
apply plugin: 'org.kordamp.markdown.convert'
apply from: 'signing.gradle'
def version = ["major": 3, "minor": 6, "patch": 1, "build": 0]
android {
compileSdkVersion 26
buildToolsVersion '26.0.2'
defaultConfig {
applicationId "com.xxxxx"
minSdkVersion 19
targetSdkVersion 26
versionCode 10000000 * version["major"] + 100000 * version["minor"] + 1000 * version["patch"] + version["build"]
versionName "${version["major"]}.${version["minor"]}.${version["patch"]}"
}
compileOptions {
sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_7 //<- tried to changed to 1_8 with android studio 3, doesn't help
targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_7
}
signingConfigs {
release
}
buildTypes {
release {
// runProguard false
// proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
zipAlignEnabled true
signingConfig signingConfigs.release
}
debug {
ext.enableCrashlytics = false
}
}
sourceSets {
main.java.srcDirs += 'src/main/kotlin'
main.assets.srcDirs += 'build/gen-html'
androidTest.java.srcDirs += 'src/androidTest/kotlin'
}
lintOptions {
checkReleaseBuilds false
disable 'InvalidPackage'
}
packagingOptions {
exclude 'META-INF/services/javax.annotation.processing.Processor'
exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE.txt'
}
}
ext.versions += [
supportLib : "26.1.0",
logback : '1.1.1-2',
dagger : '1.2.5',
butterknife: '7.0.1'
]
dependencies {
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar']) //changed all 'compile' to 'implementation', doesn't help
compile 'com.xxxxx.lib:1.0.1-SNAPSHOT#aar'
compile "com.android.support:support-v4:$versions.supportLib"
compile "com.android.support:support-v13:$versions.supportLib"
compile "com.squareup.dagger:dagger:$versions.dagger"
compile 'com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:2.0.0-beta3'
compile 'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-gson:2.0.0-beta3'
compile 'com.google.guava:guava:20.0'
compile 'de.greenrobot:eventbus:2.2.1'
compile 'org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.6'
compile "com.github.tony19:logback-android-core:$versions.logback"
compile "com.github.tony19:logback-android-classic:$versions.logback"
compile "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:$versions.kotlin"
compile 'io.reactivex:rxjava:1.0.16'
compile 'io.reactivex:rxkotlin:0.40.1'
compile "com.jakewharton.rxbinding:rxbinding:0.4.0"
compile "com.jakewharton.rxbinding:rxbinding-kotlin:0.4.0"
compile "com.jakewharton:butterknife:$versions.butterknife"
compile 'com.jakewharton.threetenabp:threetenabp:1.0.3'
compile('com.crashlytics.sdk.android:crashlytics:2.6.8#aar') { transitive = true }
compile 'com.github.PhilJay:MPAndroidChart:v2.0.7'
kapt "com.jakewharton:butterknife:$versions.butterknife"
kapt "com.squareup.dagger:dagger-compiler:$versions.dagger"
testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
testCompile 'org.mockito:mockito-core:2.9.0'
testCompile 'org.assertj:assertj-core:3.8.0'
}
markdownToHtml {
sourceDir = file('src/main/markdown')
fencedCodeBlocks = true
hardwraps = true
autoLinks = true
}
project.afterEvaluate {
tasks.findByName('mergeDebugAssets')?.dependsOn tasks['markdownToHtml']
tasks.findByName('mergeReleaseAssets')?.dependsOn tasks['markdownToHtml']
}
What could be the issue?

Answer 1

I took a look at dependency tree and noticed that logback library was using an old android library which was pulled by gradle form repository and strangely used to compile the project.
+--- com.github.tony19:logback-android-classic:1.1.1-2
| +--- com.github.tony19:apktool-lib:1.4.4-3
| | \--- com.google.android:android:2.1_r1
After excluding it from gradle dependency the project started to build properly.
implementation('com.github.tony19:logback-android-classic:1.1.1-6') {
exclude group: 'com.google.android', module: 'android'
}