Two things stop a fresh clone from opening in Android Studio, and both fail with
errors that name the wrong culprit — so they are written down rather than
rediscovered.
Android Studio runs Gradle on its bundled JDK 25, which Gradle 8.14.3 rejects
with an "Incompatible Gradle JVM version" message that reads like a project
misconfiguration. And settings.gradle applies tauri.settings.gradle, which is
generated per build and gitignored, so sync fails before anything can create it —
one CLI build fixes that permanently.
Also records why the Gradle pin is what it is, since the question came up and the
answer was not what it first looked like: the wrapper, the AGP pin and the
buildSrc file using the removed project.exec are all TRACKED in this repo. It is
scaffolding tauri android init wrote once, ours to bump when it is worth doing,
not a constraint of the framework. Tauri's own Android layer targets compileSdk
36 and registers back handling through OnBackPressedDispatcher — the library is
current, only the generated template trails.
Known gaps are listed so a tester does not file them as bugs: no safe-area
handling yet (2706), no enableOnBackInvokedCallback so predictive back will not
animate, and the templated app-wide usesCleartextTraffic that Minstrel already
hit as a Play Protect smell.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5
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