为什么这个旧依赖会使我的 gradle 崩溃？

Question

A long time ago i installed a package which gives me the height of the keyboard on an android device. Eventually the package didn't served well my purpose so i uninstalled it. A few days ago i tried to build my app but i got the following error:

Build file 'C:\Users\odedo\Documents\GitHub\tripper\app\platforms\android\app\build.gradle' line: 598
A problem occurred configuring project ':app'.
Could not GET 'https://dl.bintray.com/crysis21/Android/com/hold1/keyboardheightprovider/0.0.9/keyboardheightprovider-0.0.9.pom'. Received status code 403 from server: Forbidden

Command gradlew.bat failed with exit code 1

Apparently the package is no longer available and i should add this dependency to my code:

implementation 'ro.holdone:keyboardHeightProvider:1.0.3'

My questions are:

1. Where should i add this line??? I couldn't find any clear unstructions of this simple action...
2. Why do i still get this error? I removed this package a long time ago. I cleaned my platforms and i can't find any trace for it in my project? How to i get rid of it?

Here is the NPM: https://github.com/Crysis21/KeyboardHeightProvider And here is the same question asked here on Stack overflow which didn't helped at all: implementation 'com.hold1:keyboardheightprovider:0.0.9'

I am desperate for a solution... Please help

Answer 1

I left a question for you as a comment above for clarifications, but generally dependencies are added to the build.gradle files; either at the project- or app-level.

I would assume you need to add this dependency at the application-level Gradle file, as it is more usual, so look for the dependencies portion of the build.gradle file (usually at the bottom) and add it as such:

android {
   ...
}
dependencies {
   ...
   implementation 'ro.holdone:keyboardHeightProvider:1.0.3'
}

UPDATE: As an alternative, I would recommend you simply move away from 3rd-party libraries that help you do or find things that Android already provides. There's two main ways I can think you can do this:

1. You can implement a GlobalLayoutListener to figure out the total size of the application's layout, and from there deduce the total size that the soft-keyboard is occupying. This answer from a different question sort of explains this process.

2. The second way you can find out the size of your keyboard is mentioned in the link you shared above , and is by leveraging Android's WindowInsets APIs from androidx to get exact measurements you're looking for. I believe this solution may only be available for higher Android version, so choose your weapons wisely!