Wish Automatic Jetification

[techknight]

I am seeing repeatedly issues in the forums with the new Android X and Jetify requirements, people forgetting to do that, or simply not knowing. We all have to learn at some point, I understand.

But it would be nice if the Jetify was built-into the compiling process. Like a checkbox, "Automatically Jetify Libraries on Build".

This way, when you compile whether you forget or not, it will jetify the libraries as long as the SDK requirements are settled, etc...

 

[Erel]

I don't want to slow down compilation for something that is only rarely needed.

1. The internal libraries include the jetified versions.
2. Developers who are releasing updated libraries should either include only the jetified version or include both versions.
3. In some cases developers encounter errors because they copied libraries to the internal libraries folder (so making this step automatic will not help).

We are in the migration period. It will soon end and we will forget about the old Android Support library.