Android Studio Gradle new "apply plugin"

Question

All of the tutorials I've read for Gradle explain that the build.gradle file should contain either:

apply plugin: 'android'

or

apply plugin: 'android-library'

However, I've just built a new project with Android Studio 0.8.6 and my build.gradle now has:

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

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1. Is it purely a syntax change or is there some deeper purpose?
2. What is the new syntax for creating an android library?

Answer 1

1. pure syntax change ( I think to avoid collisions / use a 'protected' namespace )
2. com.android.library

this talk from the 2014 gradle summit sheds some more light on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Fn3ehhU-o from ~ min 15