[AGP 3.6.0-alpha03] - com.android.build.gradle.tasks.PackageAndroidArtifact.getOutputDirectory()Ljava/io/File;

Example build:

https://github.com/jaredsburrows/android-gif-example/pull/103

Error:

$ gradlew assembleDebug
WARNING: API 'variantOutput.getPackageApplication()' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'variant.getPackageApplicationProvider()'.
It will be removed at the end of 2019.
For more information, see https://d.android.com/r/tools/task-configuration-avoidance.
To determine what is calling variantOutput.getPackageApplication(), use -Pandroid.debug.obsoleteApi=true on the command line to display more information.
WARNING: API 'variant.getAssemble()' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'variant.getAssembleProvider()'.
It will be removed at the end of 2019.
For more information, see https://d.android.com/r/tools/task-configuration-avoidance.
To determine what is calling variant.getAssemble(), use -Pandroid.debug.obsoleteApi=true on the command line to display more information.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
com.android.build.gradle.tasks.PackageAndroidArtifact.getOutputDirectory()Ljava/io/File;

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 798ms

[benjamin-bader]

I guess we’ll have to make a ThreeSixProvider, then! I’ll see if I can fit that in this week.

[benjamin-bader]

Thanks for the report! They sure do like to change things up with that API, don’t they. I feel like it was just the last latest release where they “stabilized” getPackageApplication().