DESCRIBE THE ISSUE IN DETAIL:

I have two requests for this issue:

The string representation of AndroidPluginVersion should not omit leading 0s for the preview property.
AndroidPluginVersion should have an immediately useful string representation that doesn't require stripping off the "Android Gradle Plugin version " prefix. I use this string in many places in https://github.com/autonomousapps/dependency-analysis-gradle-plugin.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

See code block below.

val androidComponents = project.extensions.getByType(AndroidComponentsExtension::class.java)
val agpVersion = androidComponents.pluginVersion.toString()
project.logger.quiet(agpVersion)

For example, if I call toString() on an instance of AGP from version 8.4.0-alpha01, it will return Android Gradle Plugin version 8.4.0-alpha1 (note that it ends with alpha1 and not alpha01.

By contrast, if I look at the kdoc for preview, this is what it says:

The preview version.
e.g. 5 for Android Gradle Plugin Version 7.0.0-alpha05

Where the leading 0 is clearly visible.

Version of Gradle Plugin: 8.4.0-alpha01 (and maybe earlier versions)