Kotlinify your Gradle

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Builds and runs a concrete Gradle plugin that scans TODO comments across Android variants, uses the Android Gradle Plugin API to enumerate source sets and create per-variant tasks, validates extension properties and reports clickable file:line results in the IDE, and publishes locally via Maven for testing against an example app. Shows converting Groovy build scripts to Kotlin DSL (.kts), explains lambda-with-receiver APIs for configuration and their limits, notes Kotlin DSL v0.16.3 is usable but flaky and requires IDE refreshes and manual fixes and converts build.gradle to build.gradle.kts.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:19WHO AM I?
3. 0:52AGENDA
4. 1:15WHAT IS GRADLE
5. 2:01INTERESTING EXISTING PLUGINS
6. 2:45BUILDING A GRADLE PLUGIN
7. 21:17WHAT IS A DSL
8. 21:44SIMPLE DSL EXAMPLE
9. 24:21THE APPLY FUNCTION
10. 26:31WHAT IS THE KOTLIN-DSL
11. 27:08PS: CONVERT TO K IN TWO GIT PHASES
12. 28:07CONVERTING OUR PLUGIN - 1
13. 31:43CONVERTING OUR ANDROID APP - 2
14. 34:39RECAP
15. 35:43LINKS

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