Sharing my Android workspace generator experiment

[desugar-64]

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Hey everyone!

I've been experimenting with getting Android projects to work with Kotlin LSP, and thought I'd share what I built in case it's useful or interesting to anyone.

I made a Gradle plugin that generates workspace.json files for Android projects. Basically it takes all the Android AARs, extracts the JARs, finds source attachments, and creates the workspace structure that LSP expects.

Repo: https://github.com/desugar-64/kotlin-lsp-workspace-generator

It's pretty hacky and lots of things don't work (Compose is a mess of type errors, no Android-specific IDE features, etc.), but basic navigation and completion work surprisingly well.

Since Android support is on your roadmap(I hope), figured you might find it interesting to see one approach to the problem. Or maybe it'll give someone else ideas for their own experiments.

No pressure if this isn't relevant - just wanted to share! 🙂

[yamsergey]

Great! I also been working on workspace generator for android, it now supports multimodule configs, cross porject dependencies, databinding, R classes resolution and build variants.

https://github.com/yamsergey/yamsergey.adt

[desugar-64]

@yamsergey Oh cool, I’ll try yours. I think I’m not generating workspace.json correctly, especially in terms of dependency types and scopes.

[yamsergey]

@desugar-64 I believe we both have reverse engineering type of workspace.json understanding, due to lack of offical docs. I will try to sumup my findings in the project wiki when I have time.

Update:
CLI tools now available via homebrew:

brew tap yamsergey/adt
brew install adt-cli