Is it possible to use apollo-android v2 with Gradle 5?

Question

The docs for v2 say that

Gradle 6.x recommended. In 5.x, Gradle Metadata needs to be enabled by putting this into settings.gradle enableFeaturePreview("GRADLE_METADATA")

Which says that 6.x is just recommended, but when I try to use Gradle 5 I get the error

apollo-android requires Gradle version 6.0 or greater

Is there a workaround for this? Upgrading to Gradle 6 is not an option for my project right now.

Here is the change in apollo that bumps the minimum required Gradle version

Answer 1

I opened a Github Issue with the apollo-android team and they've merged a fix to remove the Gradle 6 requirement. They've dropped the requirement down to 5.6 though the fix has yet to be merged into a release. Should be available in the next release after v2.3.1.