The AndroidX Gradle plugin is a repackaged version of the existing Gradle plugin in the buildSrc directory.

This project helps decouple AndroidX project builds from having to use buildSrc and they can use the maven coordinates androidx.build:gradle-plugin:<version> instead.

// in settings.gradle
includeBuild("../androidx-plugin")

// in build.gradle
dependencies {
    //.. other dependencies
    classpath 'androidx.build:gradle-plugin:0.1.0'
}