How to use provided scope for jar file in Gradle build?

Question

I need to use Amazon Maps and Amazon Messaging in my apps.

With gradle, I did not succeed in adding the Amazon dependencies with a \"provided\" scope as they need to

Answer 1

There is a prodeps plugin which adds additional optional and provided dependency configurations for Gradle

...
apply plugin: 'propdeps'
...
buildscript {
    repositories {
        maven { url 'http://repo.spring.io/plugins-release' }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'org.springframework.build.gradle:propdeps-plugin:0.0.7'
    }
}
...
dependencies {
    ...
    provided('android:android:2.2_r3')
    ...
}
...