What's the best sample to explore Declarative Grad...
# declarative-gradlem
Martin
08/12/2025, 8:56 AMWhat's the best sample to explore Declarative Gradle today? I've read https://declarative.gradle.org/docs/getting-started/samples/#kotlin-application but there's a lot of choice there. Looks like https://github.com/gradle/declarative-samples-agp-app is a good starting point?
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Philip W
08/12/2025, 9:21 AMI prefer the java samples, yeah it is Java and not kotlin but it is the a first party plugin implemented by Gradle 😅 also, it is very very early.
BTW there is a Kotlin plugin: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/tree/master/libraries/tools/gradle/kotlin-gradle-ecosystem-plugin
but it does nothing 🤔
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Martin
08/12/2025, 9:23 AMMartin
08/12/2025, 9:23 AMBut IIUC,
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Philip W
08/12/2025, 9:24 AMWhat do you mean with contributed?
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Martin
08/12/2025, 9:24 AMNot built by Gradle
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Philip W
08/12/2025, 9:25 AMAFAIK all plugins are designed by Gradle right now 🤔
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Martin
08/12/2025, 9:25 AMAh! I see
Martin
08/12/2025, 9:26 AMDo you happen to know where the code for
javaApplication {}p
Philip W
08/12/2025, 9:26 AMThe dcl api is still evolving and experimental, and misses many features.
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Martin
08/12/2025, 9:27 AMThanks!
Martin
08/12/2025, 9:38 AMFound where all the plugins are applied (using the good old
settings.gradle.ktsp
Philip W
08/12/2025, 9:39 AMIt is not a dcl file? 🤔
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Martin
08/12/2025, 9:41 AMI don't think so? It's part of the larger build that also builds the "plugins"
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Philip W
08/12/2025, 9:42 AMYou can apply plugins in settings dcl
Philip W
08/12/2025, 9:42 AMLooking at the file, it should be possible to use a dcl file
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Martin
08/12/2025, 9:42 AMAh yes of course, just it's not part of the sample
Martin
08/12/2025, 9:42 AMSo to navigate the sample I have to navigate the implementation of the plugins as well, etc.. which is a bit more than what I expected
Martin
08/12/2025, 9:43 AMBut it's just me rambling, ignore me 🙂
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Anze Sodja
08/12/2025, 9:43 AMMaybe https://github.com/gradle/gradle-client is a good example
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Anze Sodja
08/12/2025, 9:43 AMIt's not meant as an example, but it's using .dcl everywhere
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Martin
08/12/2025, 9:44 AMOoohhh, and looks like it's a real production app too?
Martin
08/12/2025, 9:44 AMDogfooding all the things. I like it!
Martin
08/12/2025, 9:45 AMYup, that's a lot more what I was expecting, thanks 🙏
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Anze Sodja
08/12/2025, 9:46 AMI see that it's using a custom distribution, so it's possible that it's using some features that are not merged to gradle master
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Martin
08/12/2025, 9:47 AMI don't mind this at all
Martin
08/12/2025, 9:48 AMEven uses Daemon JVM auto-provisioning 👌
Martin
08/12/2025, 9:49 AMSQLDelight and compose 👍 This is more than I was looking for 🙂
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Anze Sodja
08/12/2025, 9:53 AMI think the last PR is using some features that are just in "development" and not yet available in normal distributions. So maybe it's easier to look at state before this PR
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Philip W
08/12/2025, 9:54 AMYeah, was very surprised about the composing/extensions 👀
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Martin
08/12/2025, 9:55 AMjust in "development"This is the fun part ^^
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