Another question about aars, library publishing and 3rd party dependencies. I have an android lib/aar that I'm deploying to prod and currently we're self hosting the library. This means consumers of the lib need to add an additional maven repository declaration. This works nicely, BUT we use another 3rd party/partner which also requires an additional maven repository declaration for their android lib/aar. So basically in order to use our library you need to add two additional maven repo configs. What are my ways around this? Off the top of my head 1. somehow bundle the 3rd party aar INTO our app aar (i think i looked into this in the past and it wasn't possible?) 2. host the 3rd party dep in our maven repo (sounds like the easiest) 3. get us and the 3rd party to be on mavenCentral() (unlikely... for reasons, but technically a solution) What really throws me in a loop (sorry not a library dev) is that if I just put my library aar into a new project directly... it seems to be able to consume the aar directly without the 3rd party and it builds just fine.

Correct, is the way it works, gradle can't do anything for your aar if it doesn't have a POM.xml file that gradle can look into for your aar 3rd dependencies. Only when you properly publish your library with a pom.xml files and other metadata. Gradle can do stuff for you

ooooooh. okay. so it will build fine, but will crash due to missing classes. okay. i unfortunately can't test that "partner" capability because its deep in the leaf nodes of the app that i cant access (for reasons 🤷 ) glad to know it's working as expected! ❤️

I would probably pick option 2

Yes. 1 is not possible. Best you can do is 2 and 3. Basically the same. I prefer 2 as well. If the 3rd party you use need a special dependency, then include it in your pom.xml and that way your clients don't need to add anything. But if you tested it and all was good, then nothing else to do.

thanks. 1 not possible is a bit heartbreaking. but what can ya do. sounds like on jar side of things you can make "fat" jars? i guess thats not possible with aars.

fat aar is possible but risky

@TrevJonez by fat aar do you mean the "fused library" above? or something different?

something different. fused library is worth a shot

The fused-library is for modules with source code in your library project. I am not aware you can include already compiled .aars

not looking good for me 😅