The Nokee team is excited to announce the third release onward to a better native development experience in Gradle.

You can read more about the first step in the iOS support in Gradle in the announcement blog for this release.

Getting Started

To use the Nokee plugins in Gradle, simply copy the following code to the settings script of your project, then apply any of the Nokee plugins to your build using the plugins DSL block:

Example 1. Configuring Gradle plugin resolution
settings.gradle
pluginManagement {
   repositories {
      gradlePluginPortal()
      maven {
         url = uri('https://repo.nokee.dev/snapshot')
      }
   }
   def nokeeVersion = '0.3.0'
   resolutionStrategy {
      eachPlugin {
         if (requested.id.id.startsWith('dev.nokee.')) {
            useModule("${requested.id.id}:${requested.id.id}.gradle.plugin:${nokeeVersion}")
         }
      }
   }
}
settings.gradle.kts
pluginManagement {
   repositories {
      gradlePluginPortal()
      maven {
         url = uri("https://repo.nokee.dev/snapshot")
      }
   }
   val nokeeVersion = "0.3.0"
   resolutionStrategy {
      eachPlugin {
         if (requested.id.id.startsWith("dev.nokee.")) {
            useModule("${requested.id.id}:${requested.id.id}.gradle.plugin:${nokeeVersion}")
         }
      }
   }
}

New APIs Supporting JNI Library Development

We added new convenient APIs to support JNI library development. The APIs in questions allow easier manipulation of the JNI library variants and binaries by additional tasks. You can see the new APIs in action in the samples, more specifically, in the sample on creating an uber JAR for JNI libraries. For more information, head over to the new Building JNI Projects chapter.

Experimental iOS Application Plugin

This release reveals a very early experimental iOS support for application in Gradle. It also support XCTest for unit and UI testing. At this stage, the plugin offers no configurability. The application built will target iOS version 13.2 for the iPhone simulator.

It is important to stress the experimental aspect of the plugin. The limitation will be removed over the following releases to address more use cases.

Xcode IDE Plugin

To support iOS development, we are also revealing the Xcode IDE plugin. It has out-of-the-box support for the new iOS application plugin. It also provide an extensive build language to support integration with 3rd party plugins. You can see the APIs in action with the compose an Xcode IDE project sample.

Improvements to the Documentation Portal

This release introduces the build language reference, also known as DSL reference. It covers the complete public APIs for the Nokee plugins.

We wrote three new chapters:

The documentation also includes four new samples:

Reporting Problems

If you find a problem with any of the plugins, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines. If you’re not sure you’re encountering a bug, please use the Gradle user forum or the [Gradle Community Slack.

Let’s build happiness with Gradle, and I’m looking forward to your feedback via Twitter or on GitHub.