About this issue

I've found an issue with caching in AboutLibrary plugin, a pretty serious I think.

Details

The recipe for disaster:

• create an Android project
• add this plugin to it, without any additional configuration (note that registerAndroidTasks is set to true in this case)
• create at least one additional Android module, and make it a debugImplementation dependency in the main module
• make sure to include some third-party dependencies in both modules (like AppCompat, nothing fancy)
• add those lines to thegradle.properties file: org.gradle.configureondemand=true, org.gradle.unsafe.configuration-cache=true
• try to execute ./gradlew :app:assembleRelease

Expected outcome:

• a successful build

Actual outcome:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
An exception occurred applying plugin request [id: 'com.android.library']
> Failed to apply plugin 'com.android.internal.library'.
   > Gradle#projectsEvaluated(Action) on build 'AboutLibrariesTestApp' cannot be executed in the current context.

So, in other words: assembling release application is broken.

I've prepared a sample application with this issue, reduced to the bare minimum needed to reproduce it:
https://github.com/ILikeYourHat/AboutLibrariesTestApp

Checklist

• Searched for similar issues
• Checked out the sample application
• Read the README
• Checked out the CHANGELOG
• Read the MIGRATION GUIDE