IMO, it's better to postpone upgrading to AGP 9.0 and Gradle 9.3.0 until the next major (16.0.0) release.
I tried bumping the versions, and XmlParser breaks. I believe that starting with Gradle 9, Groovy became more modular, and components like XML handling were split into separate dependencies. I tried adding the org.apache.groovy:groovy-xml dependency, but it didn't get picked up by the framework, unless I was missing something. I also believe it should only be applied at the framework level, not the app. If there's a quick and reliable solution, maybe it could be added in this release. However, given that it may require some rework of the Gradle setup, this change could be risky to do at the last minute, unless there's a strong reason to delay and force the upgrade. On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 9:17 PM julio cesar sanchez <[email protected]> wrote: > AGP 9 was released a few weeks ago, should we try to use that as default? > It’s a major bump, so breaking changes are expected to happen and should be > addressed too if we change it. > > El El lun, 26 ene 2026 a las 13:06, Bryan Ellis <[email protected]> > escribió: > > > Does anyone have any reason to delay a release for cordova-android? > > > > * cordova-android (15.0.0) > > > > https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/compare/rel/14.0.1...master > > > > Any additional outstanding changes to land? > > > > If not, I will start the release process shortly. > > >
