Migrating Gradle Build Scripts to Kotlin Scripts KTS

 Cons of Gradle Build Scripts : Groovy 

• No Auto-completion 
• No Content Assist 
• No Navigation to source

Pro of Kotlin Scripts (KTS) and why we should use it

• Auto-Completion
• Content Assist
• Navigation to Source
• Kotlin Extension Support 
• Errors at compile time instead of runtime 

We could easily do this by renaming it from .gradle file to .grale.kts file and Grale will consider as Kotlin script. 

Sample Example: 

plugins {
    id("com.android.library")
    id("kotlin-android")
}

android {
    compileSdkVersion(30)
    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion(22)
        targetSdkVersion(30)
        versionCode = 1
        versionName = "1.0"
        testInstrumentationRunner = "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
    }
    buildTypes {
        getByName("release") {
            isMinifyEnabled = false
            proguardFiles(getDefaultProguardFile("proguard-android-optimize.txt"), "proguard-rules.pro")
        }
    }
    compileOptions {
        sourceCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
        targetCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    }
    kotlinOptions {
        jvmTarget = "1.8"
    }
}

dependencies {

    implementation("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.4.21")
    implementation("androidx.core:core-ktx:1.3.2")
    implementation("androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.2.0")
    implementation("com.google.android.material:material:1.2.1")
    implementation("androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:2.0.4")
    testImplementation("junit:junit:4.+")
    androidTestImplementation("androidx.test.ext:junit:1.1.2")
    androidTestImplementation("androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.3.0")

}