Android gradle plugin 3.0.0-alpha1 fails in squidb-android

[Aranda]

When processing squidb-android/build.gradle using the new gradle plugin, we get Gradle sync failed: Not valid. on this block:

    libraryVariants.all { variant ->
        variant.outputs.each { output ->
            // THIS LINE FAILS
            def outputFile = output.outputFile
            if (outputFile != null && outputFile.name.endsWith('.aar')) {
                def fileName = "${archivesBaseName}-${version}.aar"
                output.outputFile = new File(outputFile.parent, fileName)
            }
        }
    }

Looks like using outputFile is not supported: https://developer.android.com/studio/preview/features/new-android-plugin-migration.html#variant_api

For our purposes (cross platform compilation), can I safely remove this block? Doing so seems to compile.

[sbosley]

Yes, if you're just building squidb from source directly in your project, removing this block should be no problem. Its purpose is just to make sure that the artifacts we build for publishing to jcenter are named correctly. Thanks for the heads up that its not working in the new plugin version! We probably won't adopt the new plugin ourselves until it's hit a more stable release, but we'll have to fix it sooner or later.