Manually adding aar with dependency pom/iml file

Question

Since I cannot use a private maven in order to share my library, I was thinking in sharing the aar and importing into another project. The problem comes when the aar and ja

Answer 1

Things have changed a little, here's how you do it with the latest versions of gradle

Create the package localy (aar and pom)

Modify your library build.gradle file to include

apply plugin: 'maven-publish'

android {
    ...
    ...
}

dependencies {
    ...
    ...
}

publishing {
    publications {
        maven(MavenPublication) {
            groupId 'com.domain' //You can either define these here or get them from project conf elsewhere
            artifactId 'name'
            version '1.0.0'
            artifact "$buildDir/outputs/aar/sdk-release.aar" //aar artifact you want to publish

            //generate pom nodes for dependencies
            pom.withXml {
            def dependenciesNode = asNode().appendNode('dependencies')
            configurations.implementation.allDependencies.each { dependency ->
                if (dependency.name != 'unspecified') {
                    def dependencyNode = dependenciesNode.appendNode('dependency')
                    dependencyNode.appendNode('groupId', dependency.group)
                    dependencyNode.appendNode('artifactId', dependency.name)
                    dependencyNode.appendNode('version', dependency.version)
                }
            }
        }
    }

    //publish to filesystem repo
    repositories{
        maven {
            url "$buildDir/repo"
        }
    }
}

Run from terminal

./gradlew clean
./gradlew build
./gradlew --console=verbose publishToMavenLocal

The aar and pom files have been created at $HOME/.m2/repository/

How to load the library from a different project

Modify the projects's build.gradle in the following way:

allprojects {
    repositories {
        maven {
            url "/Users/username/.m2/repository/"
        }
        google()
        jcenter()
    }

You can use $rootDir and set a relative path.

Add the library as a dependency in your app module build.gradle

implementation 'com.domain:name:1.0.0'