Trying to understand the module dependencies

[jagovdstap]

Hi there,

I'm trying to understand the dependencies of the different modules in this app.
I see there's a page about the modularization in which for example, the :feature:foryou is not dependend on other modules.
As can be seen in the foryou feature gradle file.

But when you look at the ForYouViewModel, it needs a UserDataRepository from :core:data, and two use cases from :core:domain

How is this module independent from those?
Probably a strange question, but just trying to learn something here :-)

[jagovdstap]

I'll answer my own question since I found out.
If multiple modules need a common set of dependencies, they can be (and are in this app) provided through the Gradle convention plugin.
This keeps the gradle files for those modules small. It can also drive you insane searching if you don't know Gradle well enough yet.

[jagovdstap]

https://github.com/android/nowinandroid/blob/main/docs/ModularizationLearningJourney.md

Though convention is briefly mentioned on this page, it could use an update to further explain it.
The graph also seems a bit off / outdated