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Why don't you eliminate the need for the substitutions instead?

&gt; Why don’t you eliminate the need for the substitutions instead?
does gradle provide a function for their mechanism for this that we can use to guarantee that this to be the case? for example, how do I know that `com.mycompany.android.mysdk:yyy` will match `:xxx:yyy`?

&gt; Why don’t you eliminate the need for the substitutions instead?
also would be nice to retain the ability to have different module names than their folder structure

That's exactly the point.
Name the projects (modules) like the artifact name should be.
Then use the settings script to set the project directory to be whatever you like to have for it.
Then the composite build should work wihtout manual substitution I think.