Second EAP for Declarative Gradle

[ljacomet]

The EAP should have

• A vanilla AGP build working end to end in Studio
  • Using the AGP model, no prototype plugins
  • May require special nightly of AGP and Studio
  • No third party plugins
  • Android application
  • Android library
  • Properties (namespace, version*, *Sdk, someEnum etc…)
  • Dependencies
  • Build types
• Mechanism for sharing defaults between declarative and non-declarative projects using software types
  • Demonstrated in NowInAndroid with prototype plugins
• Bootstrapping mechanism in Gradle for declarative projects
• Plan for composability/extensibility
• Visual Studio Code, Github Codespaces, Eclipse Buildship highlighting, semantic errors, completion (mutations)

The target date is end of September 2024.