We use a gradle conventions plugin to apply other plugins such as AGP, KGP, etc. which enforces the same version for all projects, so the version check doesn't provide much benefit to our build. It does however use a significant amount of memory to run due to its multiple uses of allprojects { }, so we disable it by setting ext["AGP_INTERNAL__MIN_PLUGIN_VERSION_CHECK_STARTED"] = true in our root build.gradle.

We currently use AGP 7.3.1, but this behavior is unchanged in all successive versions of AGP.

Cross-project configuration is a gradle anti-pattern and we have lint checks in our builds to explicitly forbid this due to the relatively severe performance consequences it has for our build.

The AGP_INTERNAL__MIN_PLUGIN_VERSION_CHECK_STARTED "hack" works but is a potentially fragile workaround as it is clearly not a "public" configuration option. Could AGP provide a formal property we could set to disable the minimum version checks? (e.g. android.disableMinimumPluginVersionCheck=true)