The splunk mint gradle plugin for Android (v 5.2.5) is far enough behind the current Minimum gradle versions for Android Studio that it can't be used. Gradle sync fails with a generic error "Cause: javacTask".
And why not host the plugin in jCenter and take advantage of easy version upgrades instead of requiring manual download?
Environment:
Android Studio 3.4
Gradle 5.2
Android Gradle Plugin 3.4.0
Splunk Mint Plugin 5.2.5
Creating a brand new Android Project, and simply including the Splunk Mint gradle plugin produces the following error during Gradle sync...
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: javacTask
at com.splunk.mint.gradle.android.plugin.utils.VariantUtilsKt.getJavaTask(VariantUtils.kt:13)
at com.splunk.mint.gradle.android.plugin.api.AspectJTransform.setupVariant(AspectJTransform.kt:81)
at com.splunk.mint.gradle.android.plugin.api.AspectJTransform$prepareProject$1.execute(AspectJTransform.kt:57)
at com.splunk.mint.gradle.android.plugin.api.AspectJTransform$prepareProject$1.execute(AspectJTransform.kt:43)
at org.gradle.configuration.internal.DefaultListenerBuildOperationDecorator$BuildOperationEmittingAction$1$1.run(DefaultListenerBuildOperationDecorator.java:150)
at org.gradle.configuration.internal.DefaultUserCodeApplicationContext.reapply(DefaultUserCodeApplicationContext.java:58)
at org.gradle.configuration.internal.DefaultListenerBuildOperationDecorator$BuildOperationEmittingAction$1.run(DefaultListenerBuildOperationDecorator.java:147)
at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor$RunnableBuildOperationWorker.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:402)
at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor$RunnableBuildOperationWorker.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:394)
at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor$1.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:165)
at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:250)
at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:158)
at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.run(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:92)
at org.gradle.configuration.internal.DefaultListenerBuildOperationDecorator$BuildOperationEmittingAction.execute(DefaultListenerBuildOperationDecorator.java:144)
at org.gradle.internal.event.BroadcastDispatch$ActionInvocationHandler.dispatch(BroadcastDispatch.java:91)
at org.gradle.internal.event.BroadcastDispatch$ActionInvocationHandler.dispatch(BroadcastDispatch.java:80)
at org.gradle.internal.event.AbstractBroadcastDispatch.dispatch(AbstractBroadcastDispatch.java:42)
at org.gradle.internal.event.BroadcastDispatch$SingletonDispatch.dispatch(BroadcastDispatch.java:230)
at org.gradle.internal.event.BroadcastDispatch$SingletonDispatch.dispatch(BroadcastDispatch.java:149)
at org.gradle.internal.event.AbstractBroadcastDispatch.dispatch(AbstractBroadcastDispatch.java:58)
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