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agp-9-upgrade

agp-9-upgrade

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About agp-9-upgrade

A procedural skill for developers migrating Android projects to AGP 9. It covers compatibility checks, dependency and DSL changes, and build verification, and explicitly excludes KMP projects.

Key features

  1. 01Check AGP and tool compatibility
  2. 02Migrate built-in Kotlin and the new DSL
  3. 03Update KSP, kapt, and BuildConfig
  4. 04Remove obsolete gradle.properties flags
  5. 05Verify Gradle sync and builds

Use cases

  1. 01Upgrade an Android project to AGP 9
  2. 02Diagnose Gradle build issues after migration

Install

Copy the command and run it in a terminal.

$npx skills add https://github.com/android/skills --skill agp-9-upgrade

After installing, type/agp-9-upgradein Claude Code to confirm it loaded.

Bundled files

References and scripts installed along with SKILL.md.

references/
buildconfig.md
ksp-kapt.md
paparazzi-gradle-9.md
recipes.md

Details

From the project README

Migration guide

See the AGP 9 migration guide for the major changes, many breaking, in AGP 9 compared to AGP 8.

Requirements

If the user requests to update or migrate to AGP 9, first check the AGP version used in the project. If it is lower than 9, stop and ask the user to run the AGP Upgrade Assistant in Android Studio to update to the latest stable version of AGP, and confirm when done. The user may also request that this requirement be skipped; if this is the case, you should update the version of AGP to the latest stable version as part of the AGP 9 migration. See the AGP 9 migration guide for how to do this.

Each version of AGP has its own set of compatibilities with other tools, such as Gradle, JDK, and Kotlin. The release notes for each of these versions will include a Compatibility table indicating the minimum versions for these tools.

Do not use this skill for KMP projects, as they are unsupported.

Steps

If AGP is already at 9 or higher, then do the following:

Step 1: Update dependencies

If KSP (com.google.devtools.ksp) is used in the project, ensure it is on version 2.3.6 or higher.

If Hilt is used in the project, ensure it is on version 2.59.2 or higher.

Step 2: Migrate to built-in Kotlin

See the guide for detailed information.

Step 3. Migrate to the new AGP DSL

See the guide for detailed information.

See also gradle-recipes for examples on how to migrate old code to code that is compatible with AGP 9 and the new DSL.

Step 4. Migrate kapt to KSP or legacy-kapt

If KSP (com.google.devtools.ksp) or kapt (org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt) are used in the project, see KSP, kapt, and legacy-kapt for detailed migration steps.

Step 5. BuildConfig

If any Android module contains custom BuildConfig fields, see BuildConfig for detailed information.

Step 6. Update gradle.properties

After the migration, check gradle.properties. Remove the following flags:

  1. android.builtInKotlin
  2. android.newDsl
  3. android.uniquePackageNames
  4. android.enableAppCompileTimeRClass

Additionally, delete all temporary files you've created.

Guidelines

  • Never write or run python scripts.
  • Only search the Gradle dependency cache when inspecting external dependencies, and only as a last resort.
  • Never add android.disallowKotlinSourceSets=false to gradle.properties.
  • When verifying changes, don't run the clean task. This is a waste of time.

Verification

After migration, verify the following:

  1. Gradle IDE sync succeeds.
  2. ./gradlew help succeeds.
  3. ./gradlew build --dry-run succeeds.

Troubleshooting

Paparazzi v2.0.0-alpha04 and lower versions have issues with AGP 9. See references/paparazzi-gradle-9.md for details.

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