The previous commit settled for Java 24 everywhere because Kotlin 2.2.10 refuses
jvmTarget 25. That was the wrong constraint to accept, for two reasons.
The first is that 24 turned out to be unbuyable. Adoptium's repository carries
8, 11, 17, 21, 25 and 26 -- no 24, because it is a non-LTS that went end of life
in July 2025. The builds passed only because Gradle quietly auto-provisioned
24.0.2+12 through foojay, and .idea/misc.xml had been pointed at a temurin-24
that cannot be installed. A toolchain nobody can install is not pinned, it is
lucky.
The second is that the cap was never on the toolchain at all. Kotlin's ceiling
applies to jvmTarget -- the bytecode -- and the JDK running the build is a
separate axis. Conflating them is what steered this at 24 in the first place.
So the fix is the one the sibling repo already uses: put KGP on the root
buildscript classpath, where AGP's built-in Kotlin picks it up instead of the
2.2.10 it bundles. Kotlin 2.4.10 supports jvmTarget through 26, which lifts the
ceiling above the toolchain rather than under it. The Compose compiler plugin is
versioned in lockstep and reads the same catalog entry, so the two cannot drift,
and the module now applies both by id() because they come from the classpath
rather than from plugin resolution.
Checked rather than assumed, since a silent downgrade would look identical to
success: compiled classes report major version 69, which is Java 25. D8 dexes
them, R8 minifies them, and ktlint, detekt, lint, the unit tests and the
androidTest compile are all green on top.
25 is the right landing place independent of all this: it is LTS, it is in the
Adoptium repository, and temurin-25-jdk is already installed here -- so the
daemon runs on a real system JDK rather than a provisioned copy of an unpatched
one.
Two catalog plugin aliases went with it. android-application and kotlin-compose
now resolve from the buildscript classpath, so leaving aliases behind would have
left two entries that read like the source of truth and control nothing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5
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