Gradle Management: Gradle challenges in multi module project - devrath/RunTracer GitHub Wiki

There are 2 main challenges

• Dependency management
• Config management

Dependency Management

• Say now we have a dependency say material-dependency added app module and also the same dependency is mentioned in 20 other modules.
• So there comes a scenario where we want to bump up the version. Here it becomes hard to go into each module and increase the version.
• Someone might miss some and might need to errors that are hard to spot.

Config Management

• Defining a custom gradle plugin for android module and library module
• So it is easy to apply from a single place.
• This would reduce the duplication of code across the modules and management becomes easier.

SOLUTION

Have a single source of truth for dependency management so it is easy to manage the dependencies from one place.