将Android库发布到依赖本地Android库项目的Maven

Question

I have a library project, libParent , that includes another library project, libChild , as a dependency. If you look at the build.gradle dependencies section, you will see something like the following:

dependencies {
    ...

    compile project(':libChild')
}

Now, I want to publish libParent to maven as an aar file. Note that libChild has not been published, but I would like to include its sources/resources within libParent 's artificat. The maven publishing section of my build.gradle file looks like the following:

task sourcesJar(type: Jar) {
    from android.sourceSets.main.java.srcDirs
    classifier = 'sources'
}

task javadoc(type: Javadoc) {
    source = android.sourceSets.main.java.srcDirs
    classpath += project.files(android.getBootClasspath().join(File.pathSeparator))
}

task javadocJar(type: Jar, dependsOn: javadoc) {
    classifier = 'javadoc'
    from javadoc.destinationDir
}

artifacts {
    archives javadocJar
    archives sourcesJar
}

Once I publish my module and include it as a dependency in my app, I get the following error:

Could not find 'libParent:libChild:unspecified'
     Searched in the following locations:
     https://oss.sonatype.org/content/respositories/snapshots/libParent/libChild/unspecified/libChild-unspecified.pom

I know that libChild is not getting baked into my published artifact, but how do I go about making sure that the sources/resources of libChild get included?

Answer 1

You can't do it.

If a library has a dependency, the pom file of the parent lib will contain this dependency.

You can't resolve this dependency including the sources/resources.
You have to publish also the child lib.