usefulness / agp-version-finder-action

Find current stable and latest Android Gradle Plugin version for later use in GitHub Actions matrix

Android Gradle Plugin version finder - GitHub Action

Find current stable and latest Android Gradle Plugin version for GitHub Actions matrix builds.

Usage

The action only exposes multiple outputs containing latest version for each AGP release channel.

Configuration:

  jobs:
    provide-agp-version-matrix:
      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
      outputs:
        agp-versions: ${{ steps.build-agp-matrix.outputs.agp-versions }}
      steps:
        # Fetch latest AGP versions
        - id: agp-version-finder
          uses: usefulness/agp-version-finder-action@v1

        # Consume action outputs to build AGP matrix
        - id: build-agp-matrix
          run: echo 'agp-versions=["${{ steps.agp-version-finder.outputs.latest-stable }}", "${{ steps.agp-version-finder.outputs.latest-alpha }}"]' >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT

      actual-tests:
        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
        needs:
          - provide-agp-version-matrix
        strategy:
          fail-fast: false
          matrix:
            javaVersion: [ 21 ]
            gradle: [ current, release-candidate ]
            # When evaluated will be replaced with array ["7.2.2", "7.4.0-alpha13"] 
            agp: ${{ fromJSON(needs.provide-agp-version-matrix.outputs.agp-versions) }}

source

All available action outputs, representing respective AGP release channels:

• latest-stable i.e. "7.2.2"
• latest-rc i.e. "7.3.0-rc01"
• latest-beta i.e. "7.3.0-beta02"
• latest-alpha i.e. "7.4.0-alpha13"