Hey folks, With the release Android Gradle Plugin 9 , we assume most of you will be migrating to the newest version of AGP very soon. However, as some of you have attempted to do so, we have been made aware of conflicts at analysis time when invoking the SonarScanner for Gradle (see for instance th…

Hi there! Do you have any updates on AGP9 support? Any estimate on when a patched version of the plugin will be released?

Hi Dorian , Thanks for the update and for sharing the android.newDsl=false workaround! While adding this flag to our gradle.properties does successfully prevent the scanner from crashing during the configuration phase, we are encountering a critical side effect: all code coverage is lost. Although…

Hey @gmazzo , Sorry for the late reply. We plan to tackle the support of AGP9 as part version 7.3 targeted for April.

I look forward to AGP 9 support. I came across the failure with AGP 9.0.0/9.0.1 with removal of the flag for android.newDsl=false providing a workaround. However, I also came across a failure with no work around (that I could figure out) for AGP 9.1.0 (and Gradle 9.3.1) released with Android Studio…

I’m somewhat struggling to understand why this has been left unless Android and modern Kotlin projects represent such a small portion of revenue and users that this is simply dismissed in favor of other priorities. Considering that many companies have these tools passing as part of required workflow…

Now that we are at the end of April and it looks like Jira and Jira are Done, is there an update on when we should expect support for AGP 9 to be released?

Hi all, We have released a new version of the Sonar scanner for Gradle now with support for Android Gradle Plugin 9.

Working towards the support of Android Gradle Plugin 9

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Nate_Condell (Nate Condell) March 5, 2026, 9:42pm 7

Oh, I see there is a conversation on this at Sonarcloud not working with Android Gradle Plugin 9.1.0 as well.

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Working towards the support of Android Gradle Plugin 9

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