How to create a release android library package (aar) in Android Studio (not debug)

Question

I have built my android library package (aar) and the result of build is created in \"..\\app\\build\\outputs\\aar\" folder. The file within this folder is called \"app-deb

Answer 1

I faced this issue in AS 2.3.3 and solved it by changing the build variant of the module to release and building it again: