Using Kable in an Android Project

I have an android gradle module and I am following the platform specific instructions in the readme that say to add:

dependencies {
    implementation("com.juul.kable:core-android:0.2.0")
}

Gradle successfully syncs, but I don’t see the library show up in the project window under external libraries and I cannot seem to use any kable classes in my project.

I’m not sure whats missing, I have never used a multiplatform library from an android project.

If I set the version to 0.1.0, android studio will recommend the next available highest version. (0.2.0 in my case although I see 0.3.0 was published yesterday). Because of this, I don’t think its gradle failing to sync silently. not sure where to look next.

[Volatile-Memory]

I haven’t tried it yet, but perhaps with newer versions of Gradle it knows to pull in the appropriate artifact based on the undecorated (i.e. core in this case) artifact? 🤷 In other words, does it maybe work to specify com.juul.kable:core:0.3.0 as your dependency?

Indeed, gradle is apparently smart enough to figure it out:

TIL. Perhaps the readme should suggest this method instead.

I’m no expert at Gradle, so I appreciate your patience and thoroughness with your comments in trying to figure this out.

Thank you as well. 😃

[twyatt]

@Computr0n something in your Gradle configuration is expecting the debug version of the Kable library. With non-multiplatform Android projects generally I’m used to seeing debugImplementation("...") for debug dependencies, so I’m not quite sure what is going on there.

For a quick fix for your particular configuration, the com.juul.kable:core-android-debug:0.3.0 should work (at least for what Gradle is expecting, although it is still strange to me that it wants the debug version.

I haven’t tried it yet, but perhaps with newer versions of Gradle it knows to pull in the appropriate artifact based on the undecorated (i.e. core in this case) artifact? 🤷 In other words, does it maybe work to specify com.juul.kable:core:0.3.0 as your dependency?

I’m no expert at Gradle, so I appreciate your patience and thoroughness with your comments in trying to figure this out.