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After updating to Android studio 3.0 and creating a new project I noticed that
buildToolsVersion
is missing and the project works fine.
so it's clearly optional now. my question is:
was it always this way or this is a new change?
how the version is chosen if I didn't specify one.
my first thought that it's automatically set to the newest version installed in SDK manager, but I found it set to
build_tools_version: \"26.1.0\"
in
android-studio\build\android-profile\profile-2017-10-30-16-28-12-121.json
in spite of having build_tools version:
27.0.0
installed in my SDK manager.
it only changed to
27.0.0
after I manually added
buildToolsVersion '27.0.0'
to
build.gradle
what is the best practice regarding adding
buildToolsVersion
to
build.gradle
since it's now in the default template in AS 3.0 and 3.1?
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By default, the Android SDK uses the most recent downloaded version of the Build Tools. If your projects depend on older versions of the Build Tools, the SDK Manager allows you to download and maintain separate versions of the tools for use with those projects
So yes, it is optional and defaults to latest.
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