Android Version Catalog Migration Script

Problem

Migrating the build to version catalog poses a hurdle. Manually naming dependencies is messy and time-consuming, and adhering to naming conventions can be particularly time-consuming with larger projects that have numerous dependencies.

Solution

To simplify this process, I have created a script that takes old dependencies as input and generates dependencies in the libs.versions.toml format.

Current Implementation

eg. it takes this as input

implementation(platform("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-bom:1.8.0"))
implementation("androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-runtime-ktx:2.3.1")

and generates

file -> libs.versions.toml

[versions]
kotlin-bom = "1.8.0"
lifecycle-runtime-ktx = "2.3.1"

[libraries]
kotlin-bom = { group = "org.jetbrains.kotlin", name = "kotlin-bom", version.ref = "kotlin-bom"}
lifecycle-runtime-ktx = { group = "androidx.lifecycle", name = "lifecycle-runtime-ktx", version.ref = "lifecycle-runtime-ktx"}


file -> build.gradle

dependencies {
  implementation(platform(libs.kotlin.bom))
  implementation(libs.lifecycle.runtime.ktx)
}

What's next

• Generate complete libs.versions.toml file

• Generate updated dependencies which will be added in build.gradle which will reference dependencies of toml

• Generate toml for plugins