Getting Started

[jasondlee]

Beginner question here. :) For context, I'm a long-time Java/Jakarta EE guy, very comfortable with Maven, and haven't written an Android app in anger since long before Kotlin was The Favored Way, so bear with me. :)

I've spent a few hours today trying to get a Circuit project off the ground. Some of that involved fighting Gradle, Android Studio, and then Gradle some more, but some was spent following the tutorial (https://slackhq.github.io/circuit/tutorial/#2-start-from-scratch). What I'm running into, it seems, is a relative lack of familiarity with how a Gradle-based Android build looks these days, so when I read "Next, add the circuit-foundation dependency," my immediate question is "To what file?".

Perhaps my start project is overly complicated, so, for total transparency, I created a KMP project (https://kmp.jetbrains.com/#newProject) and am starting from there. There seems to be some confusion as to whether or not that's the correct starting, but it's hard to say, as I've only found older posts on the topic, so I'm kinda swagging it here. :P

The :samples:tutorial project isn't SUPER helpful, as, like I said, I'm not a Gradle aficionado (or fan, tbh :), so I'm left trying to deduce what all is immediately applicable in that relatively large git repo.

What is, then, the correct bare minimum app/build to use to start a Circuit project? And is there a standalone project that can be used as a starting point/guide to give me a bit of a boost?

Much appreciated!