API 'BaseVariant.getApplicationIdTextResource' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'VariantProperties.applicationId'

When building gradle I'm getting this message:

> API 'BaseVariant.getApplicationIdTextResource' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'VariantProperties.applicationId'

I'm using Android Studio 4.1 Canary 10 and gradle:4.1.0-alpha10

It seems like the Navigation Safe Args plugin uses getApplicationIdTextResource(), so it is most likely that the error message is caused by your usage of that plugin.

You'd want to star the existing issue to ask the Safe Args plugin to use the new replacement API.

Changing to androidx.navigation:navigation-*:2.4.0-alpha02 as described here allowed a build of my app under Arctic Fox without getting the getApplicationIdTestResource warning

From the application build.gradle file:

def nav_version = "2.4.0-alpha02"
classpath "androidx.navigation:navigation-safe-args-gradle-plugin:$nav_version"

And in the build.gradle file:

def nav_version = "2.4.0-alpha02"
implementation "androidx.navigation:navigation-fragment:$nav_version"
implementation "androidx.navigation:navigation-ui:$nav_version"
androidTestImplementation "androidx.navigation:navigation-testing:$nav_version"

few days i see the same issue. Then i go to -> build.gradle file

My Dependencies before update

check the dependencies

I update the dependencies google services to 4.3.4

dependencies {
    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.1.1'
    classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.4'


    // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
    // in the individual module build.gradle files
}

After update

Now its working fine.

This error was for NavigationComponent for me in Android Studio Cannery 13.

So I changed the nav_version to this and My issue was solved.

 ext {
    ***************    nav_version = "2.4.0-alpha10" ************
    }

    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.1.0-alpha13'
        classpath "androidx.navigation:navigation-safe-args-gradle-plugin:$nav_version"

and in app module build.gradle:

   implementation "androidx.navigation:navigation-fragment:$nav_version"
    implementation "androidx.navigation:navigation-ui:$nav_version"
    androidTestImplementation "androidx.navigation:navigation-testing:$nav_version"

It will be solved, when 4.2.0 is stable.

From the existing issue:

> Android Gradle Plugin deprecated the getApplicationIdTextResource() > API on the class BaseVariant in version 4.1.0 (see bug). The > replacement API (onVariantProperties) did not work properly for > feature libraries, so to avoid the deprecation warning, reflection was > used. That is only a short term solution, and when AGP 4.2.0 is stable > we should update to that version and remove the reflection immediately

So if you need Safe Args and do not need latest features of Gradle, keep Gradle version in Android Gradle Plugin version at 3.6.4. Once stable 4.2.0 released, update to the latest.

For me it was because of different Kotlin versions between IDE Kotlin plugin and project_name/build.gradle file

classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.3.72"

>"Kotlin version that is used for building with Gradle (1.3.72) differs from the one bundled into the IDE plugin (1.4.31) "

Once I made it even it started to compile again.

This error happened after i updated kotlin version to 1.7. this was for NavigationComponent in Android Studio

So I changed the nav_version to this and My issue was solved : "2.4.0-beta02"

// Navigation Component
implementation "androidx.navigation:navigation-fragment-ktx:2.4.0-beta02"
implementation "androidx.navigation:navigation-ui-ktx:2.4.0-beta02"

In my case I was using 2.3.1 version of navigation-fragment. I just updated it to 2.4.2 and it's helped me

Android Studio 4.1 giving the following information and It will be removed in version 5.0 of Android Gradle Plugin.

> API 'BaseVariant.getApplicationIdTextResource' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'VariantProperties.applicationId'. It will be removed in version 5.0 of the Android Gradle plugin. For more information, see TBD. To determine what is calling BaseVariant.getApplicationIdTextResource, use -Pandroid.debug.obsoleteApi=true on the command line to display more information.

So, What i have done is that I have upgraded all the gradle plugins as well as dependecies versions and then run, It worked for me

As @ianhanniballake has pointed out, it seems likely that it's caused by the Navigation Safe Args plugin, see the existing issue, also referenced from his answer. The issue was marked as fixed on 9 November.

In terms of fixing the build error, upgrading Android Studio from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 fixed it for me.

I had the same problem and it was solved like this: So I go to -> build.gradle file

My dependencies before upgrade

check the dependencies

I update Google services dependencies to latest version

dependencies {
 classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:(latest version)'
 classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:(latest version)'

}

delete the .idea and .gradle files from the project .. it worked with me