What’s New in Dagger

Bug Fixes

• Fix #1079: Added an automatic module name to the com.google.dagger:dagger artifact to improve Java 9 compatibility. (cb30885)
• Removed the com.google.dagger:dagger-android-jarimpl artifact. This was an internal-only artifact, so its removal should not affect users. (6da2e7e)

What’s New in Hilt

Build performance improvements for Gradle

There’s a new flag, enableAggregatingTask, supported by the Hilt Gradle plugin that allows Hilt to perform classpath aggregation in a dedicated Gradle task. This allows Hilt’s annotation processors to be “isolating” so that they are only invoked when necessary. This reduces incremental compilation times by reducing how often an incremental change causes a rebuild of the Dagger components. For details on how to enable this flag see https://dagger.dev/hilt/gradle-setup#aggregating-task.

Note that the default for enableAggregatingTask is currently false, but it will be changed to true in an upcoming release, so please try to enable this flag and report any issues.

Also, note that enableAggregatingTask will automatically enable sharing test components, so please read the caveats for enabling that flag as well.

Finally, enableAggregatingTask replaces enableExperimentalClasspathAggregation which will be removed in an upcoming release. Please replace any usages of enableExperimentalClasspathAggregation with enableAggregatingTask.

Bug Fixes

• Fix #2662: Fixes an issue in Hilt's bytecode transform that would cause classes to fail validation if they contained an instantiation of an object whose type is the same as the superclass of the @androidentrypoint annotated class. (839a849)