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On Android builds that do not use flutter.minSdkVersion and do use a value lower than 24 in a kotlin build file, correct flutters auto migration to update value with kotlin syntax. #173825

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What is the impact (ex. visual jank on Samsung phones, app crash, cannot ship an iOS app)? Does it impact development (ex. flutter doctor crashes when Android Studio is installed), or the shipping production app (the app crashes on launch)

3.35 bumped the min android api level to api 24. We have an auto migrator to handle if users did not use flutter.minSdkVersion and did set an integer to auto update. The auto update logic produces a syntax error in kotlin build files but the matcher matches kotlin build files. CP is a good idea because 3.35 users are the most likley to be impacted.

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Manually edit build.gradle.kts

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Take flutter build that uses minsdk 22, update to flutter 3.35 and run flutter build apk.

…kts (flutter#173823) (flutter#173825)

fix: Android build fails when minSdk is set below 24 in build.gradle.kts
(flutter#173823, flutter#173829)

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This PR separates the regex for determining minSdkVersion in groovy or
kotlin gradle file when doing Android minSdkVersion migration.

Fixes flutter#173823.

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Co-authored-by: Reid Baker <1063596+reidbaker@users.noreply.github.com>
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@github-actions github-actions bot added tool Affects the "flutter" command-line tool. See also t: labels. team-android Owned by Android platform team labels Aug 20, 2025
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This pull request correctly fixes an issue where Android builds would fail for projects using Kotlin DSL (build.gradle.kts) with a minSdk version below 24. The changes are well-implemented, distinguishing between Groovy and Kotlin Gradle files to apply the correct syntax for minSdkVersion. The regular expressions for detecting outdated SDK versions have been improved for accuracy. The accompanying tests are thorough, with new test cases for Kotlin DSL and improved existing tests for Groovy, ensuring the migration logic is robust. The changes are clean and follow best practices.

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I believe this pr is being hit by #174057

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FYI @reidbaker the merge is not going work, because the head commit in 3.35 is not built yet.

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FYI @reidbaker the merge is not going work, because the head commit in 3.35 is not built yet.

I am working on #173665, which should make framework-only CPs significantly (5-10x) faster.

@matanlurey matanlurey added the autosubmit Merge PR when tree becomes green via auto submit App label Aug 20, 2025
@auto-submit auto-submit bot merged commit 79bd284 into flutter:flutter-3.35-candidate.0 Aug 21, 2025
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