Gradle build doesn't download dependencies

Question

After running gradle build in the root directory of my my web app, the spring security dependency declared in build.gradle does not get downloaded.

Answer 1

had something like this problem while was building older react-native project.

the react-native run-android command just did print:

Could not find com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.3

after lot of changes to the build.gradle file noticed that it was okay and just opened the android directory of my react-native project in Android-Studio and all dependencies was downloaded.

but to prevent download of files again and again used GradleCopy to make them available offline and changed the build.gradle file like below:

// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.

buildscript {
    ext {
        //kotlin_version = '1.2.40'
        offline = 'D:/android/sdk/extras/m2repository'
    }
    repositories {
        try { maven { url uri(offline) } } catch (Throwable e) {}
        try { maven { url uri('C:/Program Files/Android/Android Studio/gradle/m2repository') } } catch (Throwable e) {}

        jcenter()
        maven { url 'https://maven.google.com' }
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.3' //was "2.3.3" with "gradle-3.4.1-all.zip" got "3.1.3" with "gradle-4.4-all.zip"
        ////below "kotlin" is required in root "build.gradle" else the "offline" repo will not get searched
        //classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"

        // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
        // in the individual module build.gradle files
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        try { maven { url uri(offline) } } catch (Throwable e) {}

        jcenter()
        mavenLocal()
        maven {
            url 'https://maven.google.com/'
            name 'Google'
        }
        mavenCentral()

        maven {
            // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
            url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android"
        }
    }
}

(i.e. did set offline variable to my m2repository path and used it like: maven { url uri(offline) })