Support for local external dependencies

[jonbryantnz]

Hello,

Summary
aar libraries that are stored locally in the projects libs directory and are referenced as dependent aren't packaged in the final aar.

Example
If we reference a local aar library directly within the build.gradle files dependencies:

dependencies {
    api (name: 'example-native-local-lib', ext: 'aar')
}

And within the sample file structure we have the below file:
example-lib/libs/example-native-local-lib.aar

This library isn't included in the built aar.

Code
When the analyzeDependencies() method within CopyDependenciesTask.groovy detects an external dependency, it expects the dependant libraries path to be found at the following location:
<gradleUserHomeDir>/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/

This is fine if the dependency has been downloaded from an external repository however
this isn't always the case (as demonstrated in the above example).

Thanks,
Jon

[oscarcpozas]

Hey @TomTasche,

Yep, you are right. Right now, I assume the same location for all dependencies because I can't find a correct way to determine if an artifact is from dependency manager (downloaded from internet) or it's stored locally on any location. Any suggestion?

[jonbryantnz]

Hello @oscarcpozas ,

I've added a pull request for this issue.
I can't find a method in gradle that allows us to find automatically the dependency path.
What I ended up using was a trial and error approach. For example, try path A, if it doesn't exist, then try path B.

Regards,
Jon

PS Thanks again for this plugin!

[oscarcpozas]

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