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Dany, I believe this is fixed in a new release of safeargs ?

Safeargs still needs AndroidComponentsExtension to get the applicationID from the variants (https://cs.android.com/androidx/platform/frameworks/support/+/androidx-main:navigation/navigation-safe-args-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/androidx/navigation/safeargs/gradle/SafeArgsPlugin.kt;l=73). Did AGP 7.2.0-alpha05 remove the extension?

it moved to a different package : com.android.build.api.variant

Safeargs still relies on AGP 4.2. We need some of the BaseVariant APIs to have replacements before we can upgrade to 7.0+ (https://issuetracker.google.com/203557189).

The BaseVariant API are deprecated but still available in 7.x, so you should be able to release a newer version that uses the new package and still relies on the old API you require. Or am I missing something ?

I'll try updating to the latest stable to see if we run into any issues. I can check to make sure changing the package name in 7.2.0-alpha05 works, but we would need it to be stable before we could do a release with this change.

FYI this also breaks the latest Studio (2021.1.1 Beta 5)/AGP (7.1.0-beta05) beta where com.android.build.api.extension.AndroidComponentsExtension has been removed.

Is there a particular reason why https://issuetracker.google.com/203557189 and this issues don't have a higher priority?

As it stands, no one can upgrade either AGP/Studio Beta or Canary and take advantage of fixes in the latest versions because Navigation still uses the old AGP APIs.

Was this fixed in Studio 2021.1.1 RC 1?

I do not think so https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/fixed-bugs/studio/2021.1.1#android-studio-bumblebee-rc-01-2021.1.1.19.

Pretty disappointing though.

This will be fixed in the Navigation Safe Args 2.5.0-alpha01 and 2.4.1 versions. You can follow the snapshot instructions and try this out with build id #8054565.

Thank you! 2.4.1 is at least two weeks out (possibly 4, if I'm not mistaken).

I applaud the AGPs team decision to stick to the new APIs though. Hopefully its not too long before Navigation fixes this.

So we are talking mid february ?

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• Android Studio Dolphin Canary 5 (2021.3.1.5)
• Android Gradle Plugin 7.3.0-alpha05

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