Hello,
in order to get in touch with Kotlin and Android I tried setting up a new project using Android Studio.
(Fresh AS Installation with no additional settings)
Therefore I followed the official instruction provided here
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/kotlin-android.html
and set everything up accordingly.
(Btw, it appears to me that in this instruction it’s assumed Kotlin was shipped with Android Studio by default - it wasn’t for me. I had to apply the plugin manually.)
Eventually I had my MainActivity.java set up and converted it to Kotlin.
Then I “configured my Project for Kotlin” using the appearing Notification.
Shortly after, “Plugin Errors” kept showing up, stating the following:
Plugin Error: Kotlin threw an uncaught NoClassDefFoundError. Disable Plugin
NoClassDefFoundError: com/android/tools/idea/rendering/LocalResourceRepository
I tried re-enabling the Plugin several times. Also changing up the order of the dependencies hasn’t helped.
I am finding myself with a stock installation with the latest stable versions of both AS and Kotlin yet showing a very unsmooth behaviour which is rather unsatisfying. (I recently read “Kotlin in Action” and can’t wait to get started). I am hoping you can provide me with some solution that shows where I went wrong and get me back on track with my enthusiasm.
For the sake of completeness my gradle.build file:
buildscript {
ext.kotlin_version = ‘1.0.5-3’
repositories {
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
classpath “org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version”
classpath ‘com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.2.3’
// NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong // in the individual module build.gradle files }}
allprojects {
repositories {
jcenter()
}
}
task clean(type: Delete) {
delete rootProject.buildDir
}