Troubleshooting gradle file when dagger doesn't auto-generate component code

Question

Update: Link to project -> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1D8mYZL3Pb8FezPp5FOKA20-Um5kTRYxH

I had been starting with Dagger and following this tutorial till step 5.4: https://www.vogella.com/tutorials/Dagger/article.html#special-treatment-of-fields-in-dagger

I have added the following dependencies:

    api 'com.google.dagger:dagger:2.20'
    api 'com.google.dagger:dagger-android:2.20'
    annotationProcessor 'com.google.dagger:dagger-android-processor:2.20'
    annotationProcessor 'com.google.dagger:dagger-compiler:2.20'
    compileOnly 'javax.annotation:jsr250-api:1.0'

But IDE can't resolve "DaggerMyApplicationComponent" (in onCreate()). Seems like Dagger can't generate the code.

MyApplication.java

import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.Application;

import javax.inject.Inject;

import dagger.android.DispatchingAndroidInjector;
import dagger.android.HasActivityInjector;

public class MyApplication extends Application implements HasActivityInjector {

    @Inject
    DispatchingAndroidInjector<Activity> dispatchingAndroidInjector;

    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();
        DaggerMyApplicationComponent.create().inject(this);
    }

    @Override
    public DispatchingAndroidInjector<Activity> activityInjector() {
        return dispatchingAndroidInjector;
    }
}

AndroidManifest.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.parassidhu.daggerkumar">

    <application
        android:name=".MyApplication"
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
        android:supportsRtl="true"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
        <activity android:name=".MainActivity">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>

</manifest>

MyApplicationModule.java:

import dagger.Module;
import dagger.android.ContributesAndroidInjector;

@Module
public abstract class MyApplicationModule {

    @ContributesAndroidInjector
    abstract MainActivity contributeActivityInjector();
}

MyApplicationComponent.java:

import javax.inject.Singleton;

import dagger.Component;
import dagger.android.AndroidInjectionModule;
import dagger.android.AndroidInjector;

@Singleton
@Component(modules = {AndroidInjectionModule.class, MyApplicationModule.class})
public interface MyApplicationComponent extends AndroidInjector<MyApplication> {

}

Please suggest what could be wrong. I have tried Make Project, Clean, Rebuild, Invalidate and Restart several times but no help.

Answer 1

I have solved this problem. The solution is very weird. I changed the dependencies to:

    api 'com.google.dagger:dagger:2.20'
    api 'com.google.dagger:dagger-android:2.20'
    kapt 'com.google.dagger:dagger-android-processor:2.20'
    kapt 'com.google.dagger:dagger-compiler:2.20'

Overall, I used kapt instead of annotationProcessor and then Clean Project and Make Project and boom! It worked.

Now comes the weird part. There's not a single Kotlin file in my project (except a default instrumented test) although Kotlin is configured in the project. It would be very much appreciated if anyone can fall light on it.

Hope it helps!